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	recto verso Hermann Herzog (1832–1932) Atlantic City Pencil on paper, 3 3/4 × 6 inches Inscribed at lower left: “A. City” Inscribed on verso at lower left: “A. City” Herman Herzog was born in Bremen, Germany. He enrolled in the Düsseldorf Academy in 1848, studied with Andreas Achenbach (1815–1910) and Johann Wilhelm Schirmer (1807–1863), and also took private lessons from the Norwegian painter Hans Frederick Gude (1825–1903). Herzog visited Norway in 1855, and the dramatic mountain views he painted there earned him great critical acclaim throughout Europe. He immigrated to the United States around 1870 to escape the political turmoil in Germany and settled in Philadelphia, where his landscapes had been exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts since 1863. Herzog traveled widely throughout the United States over the next sixty years in search of scenic landscapes and intermittently exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy until 1880. By that time he had made a fortune through investments in the Pennsylvania Railroad, and for the remainder of his long career he painted strictly for pleasure in his main studio and residence at 4104 Pine Street in West Philadelphia. Herzog’s later work shows the influence of the French Barbizon painters, and he often painted twilight woodland scenes of picturesque areas around Philadelphia.¹ Evidently Herzog, like so many Philadelphia artists represented in this exhibition, vacationed in Atlantic City and made impromptu sketches of picturesque things he encountered on the beach. These undated drawings are from a page in the artist’s sketchbook. The position of Absecon Lighthouse, visible in the background behind the wooden structure at the water’s edge, suggests that Herzog’s vantage point was from Brigantine, looking south across Absecon Inlet. Notes 1 . Donald S. Lewis, American Paintings of Herman Herzog [exh. cat.] (Chadds Ford, Pa.: Brandywine River Museum, 1992). Copyright ©2005 The Schwarz Gallery

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