Ernest Harrison Barnes
Product Details
Ernest Harrison Barnes, American, 1873-1955. An early 20th century oil on canvas laid board forest landscape. Signed "E.H. Barnes" lower left. Image 7 1/2 x 9 1/2" high, in wood framed 13 3/4" high overall.
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Biography:
Born in New York in 1873, Barnes received a B.A. and an honorary M.A. in 1923 from Hillsdale college. He also attended the School of Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League in New York. He later studied under Will Howe Foote and Henry Rankin Poore at the Old Lyme Art School, Connecticut, as well as with Charles H. Davies in Mystic, Connecticut. Best known for his Impressionistic landscapes, Barnes joined the faculty at the University of Michigan in 1915 and retired in 1943.