23 Black Mountain Road
Jackson, New Hampshire 03846
. . .keeping the past alive
Paintings for the 21st annual White Mountain Art Sale are available for purchase as they arrive, so check the online catalog frequently. If you would like to consign a 19th century painting to the sale, contact
Leslie Schomaker.
The consignor sets the price of their item and the Historical Society
adds a small premium. There is no cost to consign. If the painting or item does not sell, the consignor takes it back. To make an appointment to view the sale other than open hours Saturday and Sunday 1:00 - 3:00, contact Leslie Schomaker. The Society accepts cash or checks, but not credit cards.
19th Century Artists | ||
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Ellen Maria Carpenter (1830 - 1909) | ||
Birch Tree by a Stream Oil on canvas; 30" x 20" Signed lower right E.M. Carpenter. Carpenter was a popular landscape painter and teacher of art in Boston. She painted in the White Mountains as well as the South, California, and Yosemite in the 1870s. |
$1,500.00 image |
Benjamin Crackbone Champney (1817 - 1907) |
Grapes from Champney's Porch Oil on canvas; 24 " x 18" An early tag on this still life says the view is from Champney's porch. Signed lower left B Champney. |
$1,200 image |
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Birches by a Stream - SOLD Oil on canvas; 7.5" x 13.25" Signed lower left. Recently restored. |
$3,000 image |
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Currier and Ives | ||
Mount Washington and the White Mountains; Lake Winnipiseogee Lithograph; 18" x 22" ea Two original Currier and Ives lithographs. Professionally cleaned, museum matting, birdseye maple frames. Sold as a pair. 1860. |
$6,500 image |
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Anna Freeland (1837 - 1911) | ||
Autumn in the Mountains Oil on canvas; 12" x 18" Freeland was artist in residence at Gray's Inn in Jackson. Dated 1891.Signed lower left. Shows lady on a bridge crossing the Wildcat River with Grays Inn and Iron Mountain in the background. (Frame has been restored) |
$2,700 image |
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Samuel Lancaster Gerry (1813 - 1891) | ||
Landscape With Cows Oil on canvas; 11 " x 17" Signed lower left S L Gerry. Shows cows and a man on horseback crossing a stream. |
$4,000 image |
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Mt Kearsarge from North Conway Oil on canvas; 14 " x 18" Signed lower right GERRY 1853. |
$7,500 image |
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Ossipee Mountains from Lake Winnipesaukee, Center Harbor Oil on canvas; 18" x 24" Verso label in artist's hand "…/Ossipee Mountains / in distance / Marach 1856 / S.L. Gerry. Exhibited at NH Historical Society 2022 exhibit The Life and Art of Samuel L. Gerry. |
$18,000 image |
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Cow Oil on canvas; 6.5 " x 5.5" Signed lower right S L Gerry. Besides landscapes and genre paintings, Gerry painted and exhibited what he described as cows' heads and cow studies along with other farm animals. |
$800 image |
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Philip Henry Holmes (1845 - 1915) | ||
Mt Madison and Androscoggin River from Shelburne NH Oil on canvas; 18.25 " x 34" Signed lower left P H Holmes / 1874 |
$5,400 image |
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S.V. Hunt | ||
The Mount Washington Road Lithograph; 10" x 4" Shows a horse-drawn carriange on a very precipitous Auto Road. |
$200 image |
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James D Hunting (1861 - 1933) | ||
Home Along a River Watercolor; 10 " x 22" Signed lower left "J. D. Hunting". Hunting moved to North Conway and owned an art store on Main Street for approximately 25 years. Should be reframed and matted. |
$375 image |
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Franklin Leavitt Maps (2) | ||
1888 Pictorial Map of the White Mountains Engraving on paper; 20 " x 21" Restored with original Leavitt paper, de-acidified, museum mounted and suitable framed. |
$1,300 image |
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Edmund Darch Lewis (1815 - 1910) | ||
Haying Scene with Moat Mountain from North Conway Oil on canvas; 16 " x 13.5" Signed lower left "Edm. D. Lewis / 1858". Titled by artist on stretcher "Vew at North Conway N H". Exhibited New Bedford, MA "New Bedford Art Exhibition July 1, 1858 through August 7, 1858. |
$8,500 image |
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George McConnell (1852 - 1929) | ||
Eagle Cliff and Echo Lake Franconia Notch Oil on canvas; 8 " x 19" Signed lower right "Geo McConnell / 1905" |
$2,200 image |
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John P. Newell (1832 - 1898 | ||
Falls of the Ammonoosuc, White Mountains Pencil and ink on paper; 4" x 2.5" Signed lower right, titled and described on verso. Newell's work is rare as is the subject. |
$500 image |
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Jean Paul Selinger (1850 - 1909) | ||
Pearl Cascade Beecher's Brook Crawfords N.N. Oil on canvas; 20" x 14" Signed on front lower right J.P. Selinger. Verso pencil inscription by artist "Pearl Cascade Beecher's Brook - Crawfords White Mts N.H. / by / Jean Paul Selinger / Aug 1906." and incised with ink "Given to Dr. E M Holmes Sr. / By Artist JR Selinger 1910. |
$5,400 image |
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Frank Henry Shapleigh (1842 - 1906) | ||
Road View West Lebanon Oil on canvas; 7.5 " x 12.5" Signed FH Shapleigh on the front lower right and back. West Lebanon, Maine was the home of the Shapleigh family. The consignor purchased the painting from Italy from the great grandson of the original owner. |
$2,700.00 image |
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Unknown | ||
At River's Edge Oil on canvas; 9 "x 13.5" |
$550 image |
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Landscape of a Stream Oil on canvas; 16" x 9.5" |
$800 image |
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Country Road Oil on canvas; 8" x 10" |
$300 image |
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Conway Valley Oil on canvas; 12" x 20" |
$350 image |
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Mabel Josephine Hatch Williams (1870 - 1944) | ||
Mt Washington and the Saco River in Winter Watercolor; 3.5" x 4.25" Signed lower right "MJW". |
$500 image |
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Contemporary Artists | ||
David Baker (1915 - 1999) | ||
Boat Scene Watercolor; 8" x 10" Signed lower left and dated '67. |
$350 image |
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Untitled Abstract Vitreous flux; 11" x 8" Signed and dated '86 on lower right. |
$125 image |
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Erik Koeppel | ||
View Over Jackson, NH Oil on panel; 16 " x 24" A studio painting made from a drawing from Carter Notch Road by Jackson Falls. Some pines were shortened to open the view of the mountains and some removed to increase the visibility of the town. Mountains are (left to right) South Moat, North Moat, Attitash, Bartlett Haystack, and Ducks Head. 2012. From an estate. |
$5,000 image |
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Mount Washington from the Intervale Oil on panel; 10" x 16" Painted in the 19th century Revival style. |
$4,200 image |
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Winter Sunrise Oil on panel; 6" x 14" Painted in the 19th century Revival style. |
$2,600 image |
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Mt. Washington Emerging from the Clouds Oil on panel; 14" x 11" Painted in the 19th century Revival style. |
$3,600 image |
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Mt. Osceola from Greeley Pond, NH Oil on panel; 8" x 16" Painted in the 19th century Revival style. |
$3,600 image |
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Florence Lyon | ||
Wentworth Hotel - SOLD |
$300 image |
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Gray's Inn, Jackson, NH - SOLD |
$300 image |
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Prints | ||
Winslow Homer: The Summit of Mount Washington 9 " x 13" Print of Winslow Homer's wood engraving of 1869 published in Harper's Weekly, New York. |
$275 image |
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White Mountain Hotels 14 " x 17" A fine photogravure of Barron and Merrill's 1892 "White Mountain Houses", a collage of grand hotels, that appeard in Hurd's "Town and City Atlas of the State of New Hampshire". |
$125 image |
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Gate of the Crawford Notch - SOLD 9 " x 6" From an 1872 wood engraving after Harry Fenn, engraved by W.J. Linton. Hand colored |
$195 image |
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View of Mt Washington from Hall's Ledge 5 " x 7.5" Elisee Reclus 1892 print from a wood engraving. Hand colored |
$195 image |
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The Willey House - SOLD 5 " x 7" William Henry Bartlett from 1838 N.P. Willis American Scenery, London. Steel engraving by E. Benjamin. Hand colored |
$195 image |
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The Mount Washington Road 8 " x 6" From Harry Fenn steel engraving by Samuel Valentine Hunt. Printed 1872 by D. Appleton & Co. Hand colored |
$195 image |
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The Silver Cascade 5 " x 7" From 1839 steel engraving by F.J. Havell. Hand colored |
$195 image |
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Mount Washington and the White Hills (From near Crawfords) 5 " x 7" 1839 from N.P. Willis American Scenery. Steel engraving by S.T. Davies. Hand colored |
$195 image |
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