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A painting by Fitz Henry Lane, an American painter and printmaker from Gloucester, Massachusetts, recently sold for $1,384,000 million at an auction at Skinner, Inc. in Boston. Camden Mts. From the Graves was the top lot at the sale of American and European Works, which grossed $3.2 million in total. The record for Lane at auction is $5.5 million, which was set at Skinner in 2004.

Lane, who is often associated with Luminism due to his use of pervasive light, frequently painted marine scenes. Robin Starr, Skinner’s vice president and director of American & European Works of Art, said, “[Camdens Mts. From the Graves] has all the elements you expect to see in a strong Lane of his mature style. It has the wonderful sense of quiet in it. You have everything from the golden hour light catching the sails to the two figures you can see in the catboat in the foreground.”

The painting, which was signed and dated ‘FH Lane 1862,’ was created during one of the four well-documented trips Lane made to Maine during his career.

To celebrate their sponsorship of the George Caleb Bingham Catalogue Raisonné Supplement, Rachel Cozad Fine Art in Kansas City, MO presents an exhibition of four paintings by the American artist George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879). Three of the paintings on view were recently discovered and have never been on public display. The works on view, which have been added to the artist’s updated Catalogue Raisonné, are Baiting the Hook, Horse Thief, and two portraits.

Since 2005, 15 newly authenticated paintings by Bingham have been added to his oeuvre of approximately 500-recorded paintings. Renowned art historian E. Maurice Bloch and the University of Missouri Press first published The Paintings of George Caleb Bingham: A Catalogue Raisonné in 1986; the comprehensive Catalogue included all of Bingham’s known paintings at the time of publication. In 2005, art historian Fred R. Kline and the Kline Art Research Associates launched The George Caleb Bingham Catalogue Raisonné Supplement. The ongoing project is aimed at updating Bloch’s Catalogue while maintaining the high standard of scholarship on Bingham’s life and work that Bloch set in motion.

 Rachel Cozad Fine Art, which specializes in modern and contemporary art as well as 19^th and 20^th century American art, has a special focus devoted to Bingham. Bingham, who is best known for his paintings of American life on the frontier along the Missouri River, was a pioneer Luminism, a landscape painting style characterized by its careful depiction of light, the use of aerial perspective, and the practice of concealing visible brushstrokes.