Night Watch by Frank Tenney Johnson

Night Watch - Frank Tenney Johnson - Heritage Canvas Wall Art

Product Overview

Looking for fine art oil painting with real brushwork? Night Watch is reproduced by hand in oils on artist-grade canvas after Frank Tenney Johnson. The result is a piece of heritage oil painting wall decor that anchors a living room and rewards a closer look.

The Story Behind the Painting

1924
Oil on canvas
40 x 30 in. (101.6 x 76.2 cm.)

Frank Tenney Johnson said of his Western subjects, "seeing these people in the moonlight or even in the magic light of the stars impressed me very deeply." (as quoted in The American West: Legendary Artists of the Frontier, p. 175) Observations like this led him to produce a large number of paintings of subjects under the green-blue shadows of the Western night sky. It is for these accomplished nocturnal scenes which Johnson is best known, and which are recognized as his greatest technical achievements. Richard Saunders tells us "During the 1910s and 1920s such romantic 'nocturnes' won Johnson critical praise. In 1923 a painting of a rugged Mexican traveling with a laden burro by lamplight won a $1000 prize at the Salmagundi Club's annual exhibition in New York." (The C.R. Smith Collection of Western American Art, p. 140)

A composition similar to those that gained him renown, Night Watch depicts a moonlit scene of frontiersmen around a campfire, with a background of covered wagons set against a dark yet luminous night sky. Johnson's ability to so skillfully render night scenes certainly reminds the viewer of Frederic Remington's great nocturnes. Indeed, "in technical terms, he is perhaps closer in spirit to the later Remington style than any other Western painter." (P.H. Hassrick, History of Western American Art, New York, 1987, p. 134)

Every hand painted oil painting in this fine art series is finished on artist-grade canvas and checked against the original before it leaves the studio.

How It Is Made

We use a 100% hand-painted process: stretched artist-grade canvas, layered oil pigment, and a final protective varnish. There are no inkjet prints or mechanical reproductions in this collection — just a painted fine art artwork made to order.

Specifications & What You Receive

• Genuine hand painted oil painting on premium artist canvas; no printing or digital imaging is used.
• Supplied with a 2-inch blank border on all four sides for flexible living room display options.
• We dispatch worldwide ourselves, so there are no middlemen in the chain.
• Available canvas sizes for this hand painted oil painting: 20 X 24 in, 24 X 36 in, 30 X 40 in, 36 X 48 in, 48 X 72 in.
• Any size you need can be produced — just tell us your preferred dimensions.
• Multiple low-cost carriers available, including DHL, UPS, FedEx and USPS.
• No-cost gallery stretching on wood bars, plus optional made-to-order framing.
• Before dispatch we email a digital proof so you can approve the finished canvas.

Wall Decor & Gifting

Build a living room gallery wall around this fine art oil painting, or let it stand alone as a single statement. The hand painted canvas finish keeps the fine art composition looking intentional in both classic and contemporary rooms.

Shipping & Guarantee

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