HERZOG, Lewis Edward (1868-1943), Central Park, New York City

HERZOG, Lewis Edward (1868-1943).
Central Park, New York City.
Oil on canvas.
Signed lower right: "Lewis Herzog", identified on a typed label (affixed to the stretcher).
c. 1915.
16" x 22" canvas.

Lewis Edward Herzog was the son of the well-known landscape painter Herman Herzog. He traveled and studied throughout London, Rome, Beriin, Munich, and Venice, incorporating the loose, impressionistic style of the early European modernists into his own landscape paintings. The present work dates to after Herzog's 1898 return to the United States and displays the loose, free brushstrokes and earthen hues that he adopted on his travels.