GEORGE LOFTUS NOYES (MA, 1864-1954)

Tropical Scene, oil on canvas, signed lower right, depicting a man in a canoe approaching a person reclining under a palm tree. Noyes traveled to Mexico with Frederic Edwin Church in 1898, two years before Church's death. This is possibly a tribute to Church's famous South American views. In later carved gold frame, OS: 23" x 19 1/2". SS: 19 1/2" x 15 1/2". Good condition.Loftus was born in Bothwell, Ontario, to American parents who moved back to Cambridge, MA when he was nine. He attended the Massachusetts Normal Art School and apprenticed as a glass painter before going abroad in 1890. While attending the Academie Colarossi in Paris, he developed a love for plein air landscape painting. He traveled through Algiers and Italy before returning to Boston in 1893. In 1900, Noyes established his own summer school of painting in Annisquam, along the North Shore, where his best-known students were illustrators N. C. Wyeth and Clifford Ashley. He also taught at Stanford University.