Alexander Harrison “Castles in the Air” Wood Engraving

Here we have a great image of the American 19 century Master Painter Alexander Harrison “Castles in the Air” Wood Engraving Painted by the artist and engraved by W. M. Closson. The work measures 4.5 by 8.5 inches. This is in good condition printed on vellum Finish Wove paper.

Thomas Alexander Harrison (January 17, 1853, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – October 13, 1930), was an American marine painter who spent much of his career in France.

He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, then joined a United States government survey expedition on the Pacific coast. Beginning in 1878, he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Jean-Leon Gerome and Jules Bastien-Lepage.

Chafing under the restraints of the schools, he traveled to Brittany, where at Pont-Aven and Concarneau he turned his attention to marine painting and landscape.

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