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Norton Bush (1834-1894) Island of Saboga, Panama Bay 20 3/4 x 33in framed 29 x 41 1/2in (Painted in 1874.) image 1
Norton Bush (1834-1894) Island of Saboga, Panama Bay 20 3/4 x 33in framed 29 x 41 1/2in (Painted in 1874.) image 2
Lot 39

Norton Bush
(1834-1894)
Island of Saboga, Panama Bay 20 3/4 x 33in framed 29 x 41 1/2in

26 February 2021, 13:00 PST
Los Angeles

Sold for US$6,375 inc. premium

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Norton Bush (1834-1894)

Island of Saboga, Panama Bay
signed and dated 'N. Bush. 1874.' (lower right), titled (possibly in another hand) (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
20 3/4 x 33in
framed 29 x 41 1/2in
Painted in 1874.

Footnotes

Provenance
M.R. Schweitzer Gallery, New York, New York.
Wortsman Stewart Galleries, Inc., San Francisco, California.
The North Point Gallery, San Francisco, California.
Private collection, San Francisco, California.

Norton Bush was an important early California landscape painter, but is best known and celebrated for his tropical paintings of Central and South America. With an educational background influenced by Hudson River School artists Jasper Francis Cropsey, his instructor, and associate Frederic Church, Bush created grand scenes that focused attention on the natural landscape environment. Bush made his first trip to California from New York via the Isthmus of Panama in 1853, the year before the present work was executed. When Bush arrived in San Francisco, he received a commission from wealthy San Francisco banker William Ralston to paint scenes relating to the banker's business interests in Central America. The present work's Saboga Island village scene, set in a seaside cove against sweeping verdant tropical hills, may have been part of that commission and certainly relates directly to the artist's first trip through the Isthmus.

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