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Newly Discovered

Joseph Hidley Landscape

Unique graphite landscape of the town of Saugerties, NY taken from across the Hudson River. Signed and dated in the lower right: “drawn by Joseph Hidley 1841 age 11.” Joseph Henry Hidley went on to become a major 19th C. folk artist whose works are part of the permanent collections of the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Museum at Williamsburg, the Smithsonian and the Fenimore Museum. All of Hidley’s recorded work dates between 1850 and 1872 when he died. At 1841, this recently discovered graphite becomes the earliest known example of Joseph Hidley’s work. Graphite on wove paper. Overall, 13¾” x 16”. Sight size 10” x 12”.

$1,550