Thomas B. Craig (1849-1924), Cows Watering in the Stream, Berkshires, Signed Watercolor Sketch
Watercolor on paper, signed lower right. 6 3/4” x 9”, hinged on card along top, scene partially identified on reverse of card, “**ville, Mass”. Possibly referring to Adamsville, in Colrain, MA along the Green River. Unmatted, unfamed.
Thomas Bigelow Craig was a well known and prolific American painter of cattle.Largely self taught, he joined the Philadelphia Sketch club in the 1870’s, where he was a student of Thomas Eakins.Craig moved from Philadelphia to NYC, where he began exhibiting regularly at the National Academy of Design.In 1899, he moved to Rutherford, NJ, and frequently worked from his summer studio in Woodland Vale, NY, and throughout the Northeast, especially the White Mountains here in New Hampshire.
Watercolor on paper, signed lower right. 6 3/4” x 9”, hinged on card along top, scene partially identified on reverse of card, “**ville, Mass”. Possibly referring to Adamsville, in Colrain, MA along the Green River. Unmatted, unfamed.
Thomas Bigelow Craig was a well known and prolific American painter of cattle.Largely self taught, he joined the Philadelphia Sketch club in the 1870’s, where he was a student of Thomas Eakins.Craig moved from Philadelphia to NYC, where he began exhibiting regularly at the National Academy of Design.In 1899, he moved to Rutherford, NJ, and frequently worked from his summer studio in Woodland Vale, NY, and throughout the Northeast, especially the White Mountains here in New Hampshire.
Watercolor on paper, signed lower right. 6 3/4” x 9”, hinged on card along top, scene partially identified on reverse of card, “**ville, Mass”. Possibly referring to Adamsville, in Colrain, MA along the Green River. Unmatted, unfamed.
Thomas Bigelow Craig was a well known and prolific American painter of cattle.Largely self taught, he joined the Philadelphia Sketch club in the 1870’s, where he was a student of Thomas Eakins.Craig moved from Philadelphia to NYC, where he began exhibiting regularly at the National Academy of Design.In 1899, he moved to Rutherford, NJ, and frequently worked from his summer studio in Woodland Vale, NY, and throughout the Northeast, especially the White Mountains here in New Hampshire.