American Impressionist Oil Painting Figures in a Landscape New England by Harry Barton

Vintage American impressionist oil painting of a landscape by Harry Barton oil on 8 x 10″ panel signed lower right and with the artists estate stamp and titled “A Peaceful Life” on verso. Presented framed in a quality contemporary gallery frame overall size 14 x 16″.
Harry Lang Barton, artist and illustrator May 12, 1908 – August 12, 2001

Born in Cleveland and raised in Seattle, Harry Barton spent his life doing the thing he truly loved–painting. Whether in the Pacific Northwest around Seattle, Hood Canal, and Puget Sound, or in the Art Students League, Central Park, and the parks and beaches of Long Island, or in Pennsylvania and New England (he often summered in Rockport, Massachusetts, and Kennebunkport, Maine), Harry’s life was art.

Harry’s career as an artist embraced almost every medium and a great many genres: from charcoal and pen and ink to watercolor, tempura, and oil; from his early work in Seattle as a silk-screen artist and an illustrator for the Sterling Theatres and the telephone company, to his New York work as an illustrator of Western pulp fiction, detective and mystery novels, and movie and fashion advertisements, and finally to his extensive activity as a portrait and landscape painter.

In the spring of 1945, he decided to study for the summer at the Art Students League in New York with Frank Reilly, and in the fall of that year he was offered work in New York as an illustrator for Gale Phillips Associates. Moving his family from Seattle, he–along with his wife Pauline and his daughters Joan and Linda–took up residence in Bayside, Queens, and soon moved to the Auburndale area of Flushing, where he had his own freelance studio and where he lived the rest of his life.