JANUARY FINE ESTATES CHARLESTON SC
Lot 113:
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Original Oil on Board by John W. Bentley (1880-1951) Evergreen Mountain. Signed lower right. Professionally framed. In frame 16.5"x21.5"x2". Weight 4.8 lbs. John William Bentley was born in Paterson, NJ on Jan. 3, 1880. A student at the Art Students League with George Bridgman, Frank DuMond, and Robert Henri, John Bentley became a landscape painter. He was an early member of the Woodstock Art Colony, and exhibited at the Buffalo Society of Artists. He was also a WPA artist, and his work is in several buildings in New York City and the Dutch Reformed Church of Woodstock. While based in Woodstock, NY, he made trips to California where he painted on the Monterey Peninsula and at Mission Capistrano.
Condition: good
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