John W. A. Scott

John White Allen Scott (1815- March 4, 1907) was an American painter and lithographer associated with the Hudson River School and White Mountain art.

John White Allen Scott
Born1815 (1815)
Roxbury, Massachusetts
DiedMarch 4, 1907(1907-03-04) (aged 91–92)
Cambridge, Massachusetts
NationalityAmerican
Known forpainting, lithography

Biography

John White Allen Scott or John W.A. Scott was born in Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts, in 1815.[1][2] Scott began as an apprentice at Pendleton's Lithography in 1830 at the same time as fellow Roxbury native Nathaniel Currier of Currier and Ives.[3] In 1844 Scott started a lithography firm in partnership with Fitz Hugh Lane ("Lane & Scott's Lithography"), which lasted until 1847.[4][5] The firm successfully produced lithographs dominated by ships, landscapes and architectural forms. Scott continued to produce "exceptional" lithographs into the 1850s and would remain friends with Lane.[6] Around 1852 he kept a studio in Boston's Tremont Temple.[7] Scott's work sold well during his time; for instance, in 1855 he "sold more than 50 landscapes at auction."[8] Among his favorite subjects was Southern New Hampshire's Mount Monadnock.[9] He belonged to the New England Art Union[10] and the Boston Art Club (1863-1907), of which he was the oldest member at the time of his death.[11] Scott also frequently exhibited at the Boston Athenæum.[12]

Scott's paintings are now held in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,[13] the Currier Museum of Art,[14] the Farnsworth Art Museum,[15] the New Hampshire Historical Society,[16] and The Butler Institute of American Art, among other museums and galleries.

References
  1. Boston Directory. 1851, 1857
  2. Boston Almanac. 1870
  3. "Old-Time New England". Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, 1972. 1972.
  4. John William Reps. Views and viewmakers of urban America: lithographs of towns and cities in the United States and Canada, notes on the artists and publishers, and a union catalog of their work, 1825-1925. University of Missouri Press, 1984
  5. Barbara Novak. American painting of the nineteenth century: realism, idealism, and the American experience. Oxford University Press US, 2007
  6. Craig, James (August 2006). Fitz H. Lane: An Artist's Voyage through Nineteenth-Century America. The History Press, 2006. ISBN 9781625844422.
  7. Destructive Fire. Boston Daily Atlas; Date: 04-01-1852
  8. Ballou's Dollar Monthly Magazine, July 1855
  9. Gerdts, William (1971). "19th Century American Painting from the Collection of Henry Melville Fuller". Currier Gallery of Art, 1971.
  10. Bulletin of the New England Art Union, No. 1 (1852)
  11. New York Times, March 5, 1907
  12. https://www.vosegalleries.com/artists/john-white-allen-scott
  13. "Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Collection, "View of Roxbury, 1854"".
  14. "Currier Museum of Art Collections".
  15. "Farnsworth Museum of Art Collections".
  16. "New Hampshire Historical Society Collections, "In the Notch"".
  • Lithograph by Lane & Scott of Bowdoin College, 1845
  • Lithograph by Lane & Scott of Newburyport, Massachusetts, 1846
  • Boston Harbor, by John W.A. Scott, 1853 (Old State House Museum, Boston)
  • View of Roxbury by John W.A. Scott, 1854 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
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