William Vareika Fine Arts Ltd is a spacious, long-established art gallery located in Newport RI which purchases and offers for sale museum quality fine art from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.
FEATURED ARTIST: WILLIAM TROST RICHARDS
We have specialized in the work of William Trost Richards for nearly forty years and currently number over 100 paintings, watercolors, and drawings in our extensive inventory of American art spanning three centuries.
WILLIAM TROST RICHARDS (1833-1905)
“Beach at Beverly Farms, Cape Ann, Massachusetts”
1877-82
Watercolor and gouache on heavy paper
23 x 36 ¾ inches
Framed: 30 1/4 x 44 ¾ inches
Signed and dated, lower left: Wm. T. Richards 1877-8s
Inscribed with title on verso
Exhibited: “William Trost Richards: Hieroglyphs of Landscape,” September 9 – December 8, 2019, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College Literature: Jeffrey Howe William Trost Richards: Hieroglyphs of Landscape. McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2019, illus. no. 140, p. 160; “William Trost Richards (1833-1905) Masterpieces of the Land and Sea: At Home and Abroad, A special Exhibition from the Newport, Rhode Island Collection of William Vareika Fine Arts,” October 22, 2021 – January 1, 2023, The Union Club of the City of New York
WILLIAM TROST RICHARDS (1833-1905)
“Newport Coast”
1893
Oil on canvas
20 x 32 inches
Framed: 28 ½ x 41 ¼ inches
Signed and dated, lower left
Provenance: Family of the artist
WILLIAM TROST RICHARDS (1833-1905)
“Near Philadelphia”
1854
Oil on canvas
20 x 30 inches
Framed: 32 x 42 inches
Signed, dated, and titled, lower left
Provenance:
Kennedy Galleries, New York
Private Collection (acquired from above)
Sotheby’s New York, American Art, September 25, 1992, Lot 19;
Private Collection, Connecticut
Exhibited:
New York, Kennedy Galleries, “An Artists’ Gazetteer: Portraits of Places in 19th Century American Art,” 1971; Brooklyn Museum, “William Trost Richards: American Landscape and Marine Painter,” June 20-July 29, 1973, no.6 (this exhibition later traveled to Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, September 13- October 21, 1973)
Literature: Kennedy Quarterly, Vol. 10, No. 4, 1971, no.293, p.210, illustrated; Brooklyn Museum, William Trost Richards: American Landscape and Marine Painter, no.6, pp. 48-49, illustrated
WILLIAM TROST RICHARDS (1833-1905)
“A Farmhouse and Grainfields, Chester County, Pennsylvania”
circa 1887
Watercolor on paper
12 x 19 1/8 inches
Framed: 22 ½ x 28 inches
Provenance: Family of the artist
Exhibited:
Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania,
“Pastoral Interlude: William T. Richards in Chester County,”
September 8 – November 18, 2001
McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College
“William Trost Richards: Hieroglyphs of Landscape,”
September 9 – December 8, 2019
“William Trost Richards (1833-1905) Masterpieces of the Land and Sea: At Home and Abroad,
A special Exhibition from the Newport, Rhode Island Collection of William Vareika Fine Arts,”
October 22, 2021 – January 1, 2023, The Union Club of the City of New York
Literature:
Linda S. Ferber Pastoral Interlude: William T. Richards in Chester County., Chadds Ford, PA: Brandywine River Museum, 2001, illus. no. 14, p. 41; Jeffrey Howe William Trost Richards: Hieroglyphs of Landscape, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2019, illus. no. 139, p. 159
WILLIAM TROST RICHARDS (1833-1905)
“Schroon River”
1855
Graphite on paper
5 ¾ x 11 ¾ inches
Framed: 15 1/8 x 20 7/8 inches
Inscribed with location and dated, lower left
Provenance: Family of the artist
Exhibited:
“William Trost Richards: Hieroglyphs of Landscape,” September 9 – December 8, 2019, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College
Literature:
Ferber, Linda S. “Never at Fault”: The Drawings of William Trost Richards (Yonkers, NY: The Hudson River Museum, 1986) 34-35, illus. no. 18, p. 36;
Jeffrey Howe William Trost Richards: Hieroglyphs of Landscape. McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2019, illus. no. 19, p. 81
WILLIAM TROST RICHARDS
(1833-1905)
“Cliff and Sea”
Oil on paperboard
9 x 16 5/16 inches
Provenance:
Mr. & Mrs. William Trost Richards, to their son, Theodore William Richards, to his daughter, Grace Thayer Richards Conant, to her son, Theodore Richards Conant to his wife, Ellen Conant
WILLIAM TROST RICHARDS
(1833-1905)
“Orchard in Spring”
Oil on paperboard
9 13/16 x 19 11/16 inches
Provenance: Family of the artist
Exhibited:
“William Trost Richards: Hieroglyphs of Landscape,” September 9 – December 8, 2019, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College; “Masterpieces of the Land and Sea: At Home and Abroad,” October 22, 2021- January 9, 2022, Union Club of the City of New York
Literature:
Jeffrey Howe William Trost Richards: Hieroglyphs of Landscape. McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2019, illus. no. 145, p. 165
WILLIAM TROST RICHARDS (1833-1905)
“Isle of Shoals, New Hampshire”
1869
Pencil on blue paper
15 x 21 1/2 inches
Inscribed and dated, Isle of Shoals,
July 30 69, lower right
Notes for color throughout drawing
Provenance: Family of the artist
WILLIAM TROST RICHARDS (1833-1905)
“Landscape along the Brandywine River, Chester County, Pennsylvania”
circa 1885
Oil on board
10 x 20 inches
Signed, lower left