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.

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)
“Seascape”
1871

Oil on canvas
16 ¼ x 26 ¼ inches
Framed: 21 5/8 x 31 ¾ inches

Provenance:
Harrison S. Morris (1856-1948)
Descended in the Family above to the present

Exhibited:
“William Trost Richards: American Landscape and Marine Painter”, The Brooklyn Museum, June 20 – July 29, 1973, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, September 13 – October 21, 1973

Literature:
“William Trost Richards: American Landscape and Marine Painter”, The Brooklyn Museum, 1973, no.52, pp. 72-73, illustrated

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)
“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