HARRY ROSELAND (American, 1868-1950).

Description

HARRY ROSELAND (American, 1868-1950).
Prayer
Oil on canvas, c.1900
19in. x 13in. (sight size)
Signed lower right: Harry Roseland

Harry Roseland was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1868. He studied under Thomas Eakins, C. Beckwith, and J.B. Whittaker, and painted landscapes and still lifes. Roseland became renowned for his genre scenes of everyday American life, and often painted scenes of post-Civil War African-American life in the Northeast; scenes detailing such home-spun pursuits as playing checkers or letter-reading. Roseland was celebrated for his paintings of common laborers in fields, who picked cotton or berries in and around the New York and New England coastal areas, and he also painted interior genre scenes of men discussing art and literature. His works capture a way of life that existed in the first half of the twentieth century that has now vanished. Harry Roseland never left Brooklyn, dying in New York in 1950. During his career as an artist, Roseland exhibited at the Brooklyn Art Club, the Charleston Expo, the National Academy of Design, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Harry Roseland was a member of the Brooklyn Arts Club, the Brooklyn Society of Artists, the Brooklyn Painters Society, and the Salmagundi Club. His work is represented in the collections of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Science, the Charleston Art Museum, and the Heckscher Museum.

More information about Roseland, Harry Herman. See also: Harry Herman Roseland, Roseland, Harry Artist.

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