"Summer Sailing"

Wonderful double sided oil on heavy fiber board paintings done by the well known North Fork Peconic Bay artist Caroline Bell. The coastal sailing painting is signed lower left. The haystack painting verso is signed in pencil lower right. The sailing painting is in very good condition; the haystack painting is in good condition. Both done circa 1930. In a period but not original gold leaf over wood frame. Framed measurements are 19 by 23.75 inches. Provenance: A Long Island, New York estate.

(1874-1970)
Caroline Bell was the leader of a group of artists known as the Peconic Bay Impressionists. These artists lived on the North Fork of Long Island. Sometimes they are confused with the Peconic Colony artists of Indian Neck, Peconic—Irving Wiles, Edward August Bell, Edith and Henry Prellwitz, Charles Bittinger, Orlando Rouland, Thomas Currie-Bell and other academically trained painters. Bell studied with Birge Harrison and John Carlson in Woodstock, New York. She and fellow Peconic Bay Impressionists also painted in Gloucester with Emile Gruppe and Anthony Thieme.

Caroline Bell had a long exhibition history, participating in over 50 exhibitions during her lifetime.