Thursday, December 1, 2011

Birge Harrison - Fifth Avenue at Twilight [c.1909]


Lovell Birge Harrison (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 28, 1854 – Woodstock, New York, 1929) was an American genre and landscape painter. Born in Philadelphia, he was the brother of T. Alexander Harrison, and studied with Carolus-Duran and at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts under Cabanel. In 1881 he exhibited at the Salon and in 1882 he returned to America and subsequently spent considerable time (1889-93) painting and sketching in Australia, the South Seas, and New Mexico. He received numerous prizes and medals, including the gold medal at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1910.

[Oil on canvas, 76.2 x 58.4 cm]

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