• Frank Anderson
• American, 1844-1891
• "Lucy Anderson"
• Oil on Canvas
• 14 x 11 ¾ inches, Framed: 24 x 22 3/8 inches
• Signed lower right
• $18,000

As a member of the Hudson River School, Frank Anderson studied amongst some of the most memorable painters of this American movement. This work, "Lucy Anderson", is a unique and intimate view of his daughter, Lucy and a departure from his traditional landscape background. The softness of the young child’s skin is felt in this portrait, which Anderson has painted with seamless brushstrokes. Following on the aesthetic path first established by Thomas Cole in the mid-1820’s, artists such as Asher B. Durand, Jasper Cropsey, John Kensett, Frederick Edwin Church, David Johnson and Frank Anderson to name just a few, took up the banner of the Hudson River School. This was the first major movement in American art that truly was reflective of and completely native to the emerging nation.