DANIEL GARBER 1880-1958 DELAWARE HILLSIDE Measurements: 36.25 by 40in. Alternate Measurements: (92 by 101.6 cm) oil on canvas Provenance: Estate of the artist Mary Franklin Garber (his wife), by 1968 Tanis Garber Page (their daughter), 1976 Michael W. Page (her son), 1980 Richard Stuart Gallery, Pipersville, Pennsylvania Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1983 Exhibited: Pipersville, Pennsylvania, Richard Stuart Gallery, The River 1900-1955: The Pennsylvania Impressionists of the New Hope School, May-June 1983 Literature and References: Michael David Zellman, American Art Analog Volume III, 1874-1930, New York, 1986, illustrated in color p. 808 Note: Born in Indiana in 1880, Garber began to study at The Pennsylvania Academy in 1899, where he ultimately became a vital part of the school and established his unique style of Impressionist painting. One of the most accomplished of the Bucks County painters, Garber settled in the region in 1907, where the rolling hills, Delaware River and surrounding landscape provided a sense of tranquility and endless subject matter for the artist. Brian H. Peterson observes, 'The detailed surfaces of his canvases are an indication that Garber took his time painting. Speed and spontaneity were not qualities that he valued. Thus the slow, careful building up of surface and color is evidence for the more studied, meditative working process typical of studio painters. . . .Yet he was primarily a plein air painter. . . In a 1923 newspaper article, Garber was quoted as saying, 'I want to paint things as I see them. . . I have too much respect for the trees that I paint, and their true forms, to make something out of them that I do not feel exists in them.' . . .To look at a Garber painting is to enter a tranquil and orderly universe in which emotion and intellect, the concrete and the ideal, are all honored more or less equally' (Pennsylvania Impressionism, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2002, p. 51-2). This painting will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonne of the artist's work being prepared by Hollis Taggart and Carl Jorgensen in cooperation with the Garber family.