John White Allen Scott (1815- March 4, 1907) was an American painter and lithographer associated with the Hudson River School and White Mountain art.

John White Allen Scott
Born1815 (1815)
Roxbury, Massachusetts
DiedMarch 4, 1907(1907-03-04) (aged 91–92)
NationalityAmerican
Known forpainting, lithography

Biography

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John White Allen Scott or John W.A. Scott was born in Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts, in 1815.[1][2] Scott began as an apprentice at Pendleton's Lithography in 1830 at the same time as fellow Roxbury native Nathaniel Currier of Currier and Ives.[3] In 1844 Scott started a lithography firm in partnership with Fitz Hugh Lane ("Lane & Scott's Lithography"), which lasted until 1847.[4][5] The firm successfully produced lithographs dominated by ships, landscapes and architectural forms. Scott continued to produce "exceptional" lithographs into the 1850s and would remain friends with Lane.[6] Around 1852 he kept a studio in Boston's Tremont Temple.[7] Scott's work sold well during his time; for instance, in 1855 he "sold more than 50 landscapes at auction."[8] Among his favorite subjects was Southern New Hampshire's Mount Monadnock.[9] He belonged to the New England Art Union[10] and the Boston Art Club (1863-1907), of which he was the oldest member at the time of his death.[11] Scott also frequently exhibited at the Boston Athenæum.[12]

Scott's paintings are now held in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,[13] the Currier Museum of Art,[14] the Farnsworth Art Museum,[15] the New Hampshire Historical Society,[16] and The Butler Institute of American Art, among other museums and galleries.

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  1. ^ Boston Directory. 1851, 1857
  2. ^ Boston Almanac. 1870
  3. ^ "Old-Time New England". Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, 1972. 1972.
  4. ^ John William Reps. Views and viewmakers of urban America: lithographs of towns and cities in the United States and Canada, notes on the artists and publishers, and a union catalog of their work, 1825-1925. University of Missouri Press, 1984
  5. ^ Barbara Novak. American painting of the nineteenth century: realism, idealism, and the American experience. Oxford University Press US, 2007
  6. ^ Craig, James (August 2006). Fitz H. Lane: An Artist's Voyage through Nineteenth-Century America. The History Press, 2006. ISBN 9781625844422.
  7. ^ Destructive Fire. Boston Daily Atlas; Date: 04-01-1852
  8. ^ Ballou's Dollar Monthly Magazine, July 1855
  9. ^ Gerdts, William (1971). "19th Century American Painting from the Collection of Henry Melville Fuller". Currier Gallery of Art, 1971.
  10. ^ Bulletin of the New England Art Union, No. 1 (1852)
  11. ^ New York Times, March 5, 1907
  12. ^ "Vose Galleries - John White Allen Scott".
  13. ^ "Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Collection, "View of Roxbury, 1854"".
  14. ^ "Currier Museum of Art Collections".
  15. ^ "Farnsworth Museum of Art Collections".
  16. ^ "New Hampshire Historical Society Collections, "In the Notch"".
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