Blowing Rock Frameworks & Gallery is the Nation’s leading seller of Daingerfield paintings, having sold 197 works since opening in 1994!
Elliott Daingerfield (1859-1932)
Raised in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Elliott Daingerfield is considered one of North Carolina’s most prolific and prominent artists. Although he painted a breadth of subjects throughout his career, he is most remembered for his landscape paintings. His piece, “The Child of Mary” is considered one of America’s greatest works of art.
Daingerfield began learning the basics of painting and drawing in his hometown of Fayetteville but moved to New York City at age 21 where he enrolled at the National Academy of Design. There he was a studio boy and apprentice under William Satterle and later studied under George Inness at the prestigious Holbein Studios. Although he would already have a budding career as an artist in New York City (mainly painting religious works), in 1886 he would open a studio in Blowing Rock, NC. Originally meant only as a way to recover from a recent illness, Daingerfield found the Blue Ridge Mountains an incredible source of inspiration and spent the rest of his life traveling between his two studios. In 1911, he would be invited by the Santa Fe Railroad Company to the Grand Canyon as part of a campaign to increase tourism through artist depictions of the area, leading to some of his most well known works, including “The Grand Canyon” and “The Genius of the Canyon”. He would continue to visit the Grand Canyon throughout his life.
Daingerfield’s works are a masterful depiction of tonalism. Acting as the American answer to impressionism, tonalism focuses more on evoking a felt experience and often emphasized the spiritual connection to nature. Daingerfield’s style was born from both the rejection of the meticulous Hudson River School paintings and the embracing of the more romantic Barbizon school. Like most tonalist painters, Daingerfield preferred to paint by memory rather than en plein air, allowing him greater freedom to inject imagination into his works and give him a greater mastery over focus and emphasization. He felt it was more important to evoke a feeling of a place than render it accurately. A belief echoed by his teacher Innes: “It is well to begin with nature, but one should go with art”.
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