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Howard Russell Butler ( American New York California New Jersey 1856 - 1934 ) California Landscape Oil on Board Signed loer right "H.R. Butler" 24 1/2" L 18 1/2" H Art 20" L 14" H Tranquil scene depicts a Western mountain landscape before sunset in Overall Great Condition We Provide Efficient and Economical In-house Shipping US & Worldwide also including White Glove Door-to-Door Delivery Service with Personal Drivers Across the Tri-State Area For Further Details Please Select 'Buyer Arranged Shipping' and Contact our Office. Please View all Photographs Closely Out of a Well Refined New York City Estate Thank you for Bidding with Gold Coast Auctioneers 50 Werman ct Plainview NY 11803 tel. 516-586-3992 We are now accepting Consignments for our future auction Search words: Fine Art for collectors 19th century art victorian landscape western scene cowboy Contemporary art antique fine decor wall decor home decor interior design impressionist scene realism natural art twilight eclipse early 20th century art snow tipped mountainous region Howard Russell Butler (March 3, 1856 Princeton, NJ. May 20, 1934) Born in New York City Butler was an American painter and founder of the American Fine Arts Society. Butler also persuaded Andrew Carnegie to fund the construction of Carnegie Lake near Princeton University. Butler also designed a mansion, an astronomy hall and painted a solar eclipse for the U.S. Naval Observatory. In 1889 Butler was able to find the capital to build the Fine Arts building at 215 West 57th Avenue. This building was to be the home of the Art Students League, the Society of American Artists, the Architectural League of New York and the newly formed American Fine Arts Society which Butler led for its first 17 years. Whilst raising these funds he first met Andrew Carnegie who employed him for ten years allowing him time off each day to paint. By 1899 he was a National academician of the National Academy of Design and a member of the Architectural League and the Society of American Artists. In 1902 he was invited to join the Society of Artists and he was asked to make another portrait of the philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. Whilst Carnegie was sitting for the portrait, the problem of finding places to row at Princeton was discussed. Carnegie noted that Scottish lochs were created by just constraining the flow of water. Butler and the rowing team had just such a scheme in mind to create an artificial lake. With Carnegie's permission, Butler contacted a building firm in his home town and obtained an estimate of US $118,000 to construct a lake. Lake Carnegie and the purchase of hundreds of acres of land resulted from this meeting. Butler completed the building of Carnegie's mansion on Fifth Avenue but he and Carnegie differed and Butler left. Butler is known particularly for paintings of seascapes and for his views of the eclipse of the sun, but he also painted people and landscapes. Butler died in Princeton in 1934 near the lake that he had organized for their rowing team. His work can be seen at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum American Museum of Natural History Carnegie Lake and more