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ALEXANDER THEOBALD VAN LAER (1857-1920 Lived/active: Connecticut and New York.

Offered by: Jeffrey Tillou Antiques

Description
A Litchfield Farm in Winter. Signed (l.r.): Van Laer, ca. 1915.
Oil on canvas. Housed in a finely carved Childe Hassam style frame.
20” x 27”, 27 ½” x 34 ½” with frame.
Over-all in excellent condition.
Provenance: Collection of Dr. Jay St. Mark, Newtown, Connecticut.
Ex-collection of Robert Austin.
Exhibited: Alexander Theobald Van Laer, The Lost Landscapes, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT, 1999.

By the time Van Laer moved to Litchfield his style of painting became more impressionistic, often using a light and softer palette. He exhibited frequently at the National Academy of Design, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Carnegie Institute, the Lotos Club, the Union League Club and the MacBeth Gallery, and in 1904 he was awarded a Gold Medal at the St. Louis World’s Fair Exhibition.

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Jeffrey Tillou Antiques was established in 1992. The three story historic building located “on the green” in Litchfield, features an extensive inventory of Americana from the 18th and early 19th centuries. Here you will find an extraordinary collection of furniture, folk art, weathervanes, sculpture, Oriental carpets, and related decorative pieces as well as distinctive European furniture and original works of art.

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