Schwarz Gallery - Catalog 75 - New Jersery Remembered: Seventy-fifth Anniversary Exhibition



Catalogue Cover Title page Copyright/Colophon Preface & Acknowledgements Introduction (1 2 3 4 ) Thumbnail Images Plates [ sort by Artist ] Birch, Thomas Constable, William Gullager, Christian Lawrence, Unknown after Charles Bird Lawrence, Attributed to Charles Bird Eddy, Oliver Tarbell Winner, William E. Bonnell, William C. Bonfield, George Robert Carmiencke Johann Hermann Humphreys, Charles Spencer Toronto Jersey Blue Trotter, Newbold Hough Hamilton, James Beach at Atlantic City In the Inlet, Atlantic City Richards, Frederick de Bourg Beach Scene Atlantic City Beach Scene with Sailboats Herzog, Hermann Richards, William Trost New Jersey Shore Waves Crashing Against the Shore Bonfield, William van de Velde Lewis, Edmund Darch Cape May, New Jersey Looking up the Beach, Cape May Jersey Coast Beach Scene Essig, George Emerick Harbor View w/Sailboats & Steamers Jersey Shore Dunes Barnegat Lighthouse Atlantic City Windmill and Sailboat Willcox, William H. Smith, Xanthus Cape May Beach Atlantic City, New Jersey Three Figures w/Rowboat, A.C., N.J. Waller, Frank Church, Morristown Red Foliage with Cows Grazing The Beach Afternoon, Morristown House and Garden, Morristown Beale, Joseph Boggs Judson, William Lees Weber, Carl Clark, Frederick H. Holloway, Edward Stratton Freedley, George Harrison Atlantic City from the Bay Beach Scene, Atlantic City Morris, George Spencer King, Paul Bernard Patterson, Amelia Rumsey D’Ascenzo, Nicola Koehler, Paul R. Cameron, Peter Caledon Absecon Island, New Jersey Sandhills @ Ventnor: Atlantic City Island Sunset over the Salt Meadows Gloaming on Tuckerton Salt Marshes Creek and Marsh, Absecon Island Farley, Richard Blossom At the Seashore Ocean City, New Jersey People on the Beach Cain, Cecilia A. Sorver, J. D. Griffith, Ella N. Krick, David M. Schoonover, Frank E. Howard, Edith Lucile Sunset on the Jersey Marshes Beach Scene Gechtoff, Leonid Licini, Frank Lie, Jonas Kelly, Leon Sailboat Race, Harvey Cedars, NJ Barnegat Bay, Fishery Blackburn, Morris Atkinson Campbell, Hugh H. Chard, Daniel	Johann Hermann Carmiencke (1810–1867) Cedar Swamps, Cape May County, New Jersey Oil on canvas, 31 1/4 × 46 1/4 inches Signed at lower right: “H. Carmiencke N.Y.” Inscribed on stretcher verso: (bottom center) “Cedar Swamps. Cape May Co/N.J.”; (bottom left) “Bailey 1861” Born in Hamburg, Germany, Johann Hermann Carmiencke first studied art in Dresden as a student of Johann Christian Dahl (1788–1857). In 1834 he went to Copenhagen and studied at the Danish Academy of Art. After a period of study in Leipzig, Germany, he returned to Copenhagen in 1838 and became a Danish citizen. He traveled throughout Sweden, Germany, and Austria and visited Italy from 1845 to 1846. Carmiencke was appointed court painter that year to Christian VIII, King of Denmark, and at some point befriended Hans Christian Anderson. In 1851, alarmed at the anti-German sentiment in Denmark following that country’s war with Germany in 1848, he immigrated to the United States and settled in Brooklyn. Carmiencke sketched directly from nature and composed dramatic, meticulously executed views in his studio that reflect his European academic training. He painted in the Catskills and Adirondacks and has been associated with the Hudson River School tradition. Carmiencke was also a noted engraver and etcher. He was a member of the Artists’ Fund Society of New York and the Brooklyn Art Association. He exhibited at the National Academy of Design from 1853 to 1859, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1855 and 1867, the Boston Athenaeum in 1861 and 1862, and the Maryland Historical Society. Carmiencke and twenty-three other artists left the Brooklyn Art Association in 1866 and founded the Brooklyn Academy of Design. One of his students was Carleton Wiggins (1848–1932). Carmiencke died in Brooklyn.¹ Carmiencke was active in Cape May during the late 1850s and early ’60s. This view of the cedar swamps at Cape May is a far cry from the spectacular mountain vistas for which he was noted. At that time the swampy area around Dennisville was noted for an unusual industry called cedar mining. Huge cedar trees that either died and fell or were blown down by violent storms sank deep into the swamps and were “found buried at various depths in the black peaty earth, mainly decomposed vegetable matter. The submerged logs were quite sound, the color of the wood was preserved and its buoyancy retained.”² Some of the logs were estimated to be over a thousand years old. Shingles made from these logs were in high demand among builders in South Jersey and Philadelphia, where the roof of Independence Hall was re-shingled with cedar mined from Cape May County. The industry gradually died out by the 1890s, when builders favored fireproof materials. Another version of this painting, dated 1859, is in a private collection, ³ and the artist is documented as having exhibited an On the Beach of Cape May (location unknown) at the Brooklyn Art Association in 1863.⁴ Notes 1. For biographical information on the artist, see Janet A. Flint, Johann Hermann Carmiencke: Drawings and Watercolors [exh. cat.] (Washington, D.C.: National Collection of Fine Arts, 1973). 2. Harold F. Wilson, The Jersey Shore: A Social and Economic History of the Counties of Atlantic, Cape May, Monmouth and Ocean, 2 vols. (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1953), vol. 2, p. 725. 3. The painting is illustrated in Artists of 19 th Century Philadelphia, Philadelphia Collection, vol. V (Philadelphia: Schwarz Gallery, 1978), no. 4, where its subject is misidentified as a “Long Island Landscape.” 4. Clark S. Marlor, A History of the Brooklyn Art Association with an Index of Exhibitions (New York: James F. Carr, 1970), p. 143. Copyright ©2005 The Schwarz Gallery

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