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Daniel Garber
Old Church, Carversville, 1916
Daniel Garber, who trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, became an important proponent for the continuation of impressionism in early-20th-century American painting. A leading member of the so-called Pennsylvania impressionists, Garber and his colleagues Edward Redfield and Walter Schofield helped to establish the Bucks County town of New Hope as an important art colony and regional center for landscape. Equally accomplished as a figure painter (given his academic training), Garber excelled in lush vistas exploring the decorative qualities of light and pattern in villages along the Delaware River. This painting, with its custom-designed Arts and Crafts frame, showcases Garber's regional aesthetic while revealing broader cultural impulses such as the Colonial Revival. |