Biography of fitz hugh lane artist

Fitz hugh lane paintings

Frederic Church, two decades younger, was one of the most celebrated artists of his day. He painted monumental scenes of nature, wild, rugged, uninhabited landscapes. Twilight in the Wilderness, by Frederic Church. Lane and Church both painted coastal Maine, accessible to mid th century landscape artists. They came to Mount Desert Island to capture the grandeur of nature on canvas for their wealthy patrons.

Church painted the Maine his patrons wanted to see— an untamed wilderness, according to. Lane and the Global Reach of Antebellum America. Lane, however, went in a different direction. He saw plenty of people along the coast and plenty of commercial activity. As a Gloucester native, he knew thousands of men made their living clearcutting that untamed landscape and fishing that empty marinescape.

Hundreds of humble schooners made as many as 17 trips a year hauling lumber, hay and granite. Hundreds more made several trips a year to fish for cod in the Grand and Georges Banks. Lumber Schooners at Evening on Penobscot Bay, See it here. He was born Nathaniel Rogers Lane in , but in had his name legally changed.