ARTIST: Louis Hovey Sharp (California, New Mexico, Illinois, 1874 - 1946) NAME: Lke Landscape with Swans MEDIUM: oil on canvas CONDITION: Minor flaking. Some craquelure. Minor scattered inpaintings. SIGHT SIZE: 25 x 30 inches / 63 x 76 cm FRAME SIZE: unframed SIGNATURE: lower left and on verso CATEGORY: antique vintage painting AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US SKU#: 118114 US Shipping $90 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: Born in Glencoe, IL on July 27, 1874, Louis Hovey Sharp studied with William Merritt Chase, Frank Duveneck, Charles Boutwood, and at the Art Institute of Chicago. He sketched for a brief time on the Hopi reservation in Arizona before moving to Pasadena, CA in 1914.For the next 15 years he kept studios both in Pasadena and Taos, NM. I n 1917 he spent many months painting in the Grand Canyon; in 1925 he was on the Monterey peninsula, and after 1929 lived for a time in the Austrian Tyrol.Sharp died in Pasadena on June 13, 1946.Member of California Art Club, Painters & Sculptors of LA.