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HARRY ROSELAND (1868-1950)

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HARRY ROSELAND (1868-1950)
<B>HARRY ROSELAND (1868-1950)</B></I> <BR>Prayer <BR>Oil on canvas, c.1900 <BR>19in. x 13in. (sight size) <BR>Signed lower right: Harry Roseland <BR><BR>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 everday 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.<BR><BR><Keywords:man, portrait, oil, painting> <BR><BR><B>Important notice:</B> Heritage usually auctions material at the rate of 200-250 lots per hour. On some occasions eBay Live bid software or the Internet may not be able to keep up with the pace of the auction. We recommend placing a realistic absentee bid now as insurance to avoid disappointment. Occasionally the auctioneer may eliminate or reject an eBay Live bid, and the auctioneer may also reopen a lot after the close of the eBay live bidding (usually because we missed an audience bid), and may reject your bid even if it shows you as the winning bidder. By bidding via eBay Live, you agree that Heritage may award the lot to another bidder at its sole discretion under the circumstances described above or any other reasonable circumstances. Since eBay bids are not shown to us until we open the lot on the floor, we treat those bids just like floor bids. In most cases the floor responds before the eBay bid is presented to us, due to Internet lag time, so for consistency we have made it a policy that floor bids are always considered first over tie eBay live bids. Also please note that all Heritage lots purchased through eBay Live carry a 24.5% Buyer's Premium. Please make sure you read the Terms and Conditions before you bid.