Robert Lewis Reid (American, 1862-1929) View of the Broadmoor Hotel (from Cheyenne Mountain)

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Robert Lewis Reid (American, 1862-1929)

View of the Broadmoor Hotel (from Cheyenne Mountain)
Signed and dated "Robert Reid/1919" l.l., titled on a label affixed to the reverse.
Oil on panel, 11 3/4 x 15 7/8 in. (29.9 x 40.3 cm),in a Newcomb-Macklin Co. frame designed by Stanford White.
Condition: Frame abrasions, surface grime, bowing to the support.

Provenance: Purchased from a private collection, Leyden, MA.

N.B. Noted American Impressionist Robert Reid was born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. He studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and at the Art Students League in New York, before heading to Paris to the Academie Julian in the fall of 1885. Returning to the United States in 1889, Reid settled in New York to paint and teach. Shortly thereafter, in 1892, he began the major public mural commissions which would distinguish his career. In 1898 Reid joined with several other artists, including Childe Hassam and John Twachtman, to found "The Ten," a loosely-knit group of Impressionists that exhibited together annually until 1919. Reid continued to paint canvases throughout his career, and he exhibited regularly at the National Academy of Design, where he became a full Academician in 1906. Reid's easel paintings tended to feature single figures, often a young woman holding flowers, set in a landscape or garden, or later dressed in a kimono in an interior setting, but the artist also painted a full range of subjects including landscapes and nudes. The small landscape at hand is dated 1919, about the time Reid relocated to Colorado Springs where he helped to found the Broadmoor Art Academy. Its frame is a manufactured version (compo) of a Stanford White design that was produced by the Newcomb-Macklin Company c. 1920.
Estimate $12,000-18,000

There is minimal bowing of about 1/4 in. to the wood panel. MInor frame abrasion along bottom edge, surface grime overall.

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