(New York, NY) Hawthorne Fine Art is pleased to announce In Harmony: American Women Tonalists (1880-1920), an online exhibition and sale. The intimate exhibition will be available to view on the gallery’s website from August 15, 2025, to September 30, 2025. The exhibition will feature nearly a dozen paintings by historic women artists who were influenced by the French Barbizon school and its American exponents such as William Morris Hunt. Painted with a subdued palette and expressive brush strokes, the works provide a link provide a link between the Hudson River School and the American modernist movement.

Among the works to be shown is Flight through the Woods by Charlotte Buell Coman (1833-1924). A New York native, Coman studied for six years in Paris making frequent trips to the French Countryside and to Holland. Known at one time as the Dean of American Women Painters and lauded for her mastery of atmospheric effects, Coman depicts a well-worn forest path illuminated by sunlight filtering through a dense canopy. Upon closer viewing, one can see a blackbird perched on a branch as others take flight into the depths of the forest.

Moonrise by Maria J.C. a’Becket (1839-1904) depicts a scene on the Swannanoa River near the Biltmore estate, the gilded age mansion of George Washington Vanderbilt. Born in Maine, a’Becket studied in Boston under William Morris Hunt, an instrumental figure in the development of the American Tonalist movement. In France, she studied under Charles-Francois Daubigny and was exposed to other members of the Barbizon school including artists Camille Corot, Narcisse Virgilio Díaz, and Jules Dupre.

Emma Lampert Cooper’s (1855-1920) Autumn Lake depicts trees full of gold, brown, and green foliage beneath a hazy grey sky. Born in New York, Cooper studied in Paris and traveled throughout Germany, Holland, and England. She was the wife of American artist Colin Campbell Cooper.

Painted in 1887, Mary Loring Warner’s (1860-1950) Barn at Sunset captures the day’s end with the rich tones of autumn and a striking swath of yellow sunlight across the horizon. The work is inscribed DeHaven on its verso, a nod to her teacher, Franklin DeHaven, who she studied with in Milford, Pennsylvania. Born in Massachusetts, Warner also studied in New York City at the Cooper Union and at the Art Students League.

About Hawthorne Fine Art:

Hawthorne Fine Art is a Manhattan based fine art gallery specializing in 19th and early 20th century American painting. To view the In Harmony: American Women Tonalists (1880-1920) exhibition, please visit our website: https://hawthornefineart.com/exhibitions.