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Description: signed Daniel Garber, l.l. oil on canvas Painted at Lumberville in June 1908. Garber received his early artistic training at The Art Academy of Cincinnati and later at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where he studied under Thomas Anshutz, William Merritt Chase, and Cecelia Beaux. Garber spent the summers of 1899 and 1900 studying with Anshutz at The Darby School, a summer art program where the curriculum stressed landscape painting and encouraged students to paint the local landscape from life. In 1907, at the conclusion of a two year fellowship abroad, Garber returned to the States and settled with his wife in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where he quickly established his place among Redfield and Schofield--the nation's most prominent landscape painters of the time. June depicts the season most often associated with Garber, who unlike his friend Redfield, rarely painted winter snow scenes. The heat of summer appears almost palpable in this landscape, with seemingly translucent foliage gilded in sunlight and profuse with blossoms. In characteristic fashion Garber achieves a tapestry-like texture by dispersing interwoven strands of brilliant pigment in an intricately patterned and stitchlike series of brushstrokes. Kathleen A. Foster notes, "Commenting on one of Daniel Garber's windy landscapes of about 1904, a viewer praised it's 'fidelity' and also remarked that, 'Somehow it rested me more than anything else I have seen for a long time. He seems to have a high and true concept of the beautiful.' This search for the restful and the beautiful within the 'plain facts' of his own life motivated all of Garber's best work, and transformed his homeliest subject 'into something serene and golden'" (The Art of Daniel Garber, 1980, pp. 29-30). This painting will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's work being prepared by Hollis Taggart and Carl Jorgensen in cooperation with the Garber family.

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Provenance: The artist Macbeth Gallery, New York Private Collection, Haverhill, Massachusetts, 1912 Daniel J. Terra, Chicago, Illinois, circa 1990 (sold: Sotheby's, New York, May 25, 1995, lot 65, illustrated in color) Acquired by the present owner at the above sale