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)
“Fort Dumpling, Jamestown”
Watercolor and gouache on paper
9 1/2 x 14 inches
WILLIAM TROST RICHARDS (1833-1905)
“Sunrise at Newport”
1871
Watercolor on paper
8 x 13 3/4 inches
Signed and dated, lower right
WILLIAM TROST RICHARDS (1833-1905)
“Wave”
1895
Oil on canvas
42 x 31 inches
Frame size: 49 ½ x 38 ½ inches
Signed and dated, lower left
WILLIAM TROST RICHARDS (1833-1905)
“Kettle Bottom Rock, Conanicut Island, RI”
1893
Oil on canvas
27 x 47 inches
Provenance:
The Artist
Gifted to Harrison Morris (1856-1948), Philadelphia and Jamestown, RI
Descended in the Family to the present
Exhibited:
“Retrospective Exhibition of the Works of Artists Identified with Newport — Rhode Island Tercentenary” The Art Association of Newport, July 25 – August 16, 1936
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)
“A Summer Afternoon”
1900
Oil on canvas
14 x 24 inches
Framed: 21 ¾ x 31 ¾ inches
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