Lot 86249: WILLIAM GREASON (American, 1884-1945) Landscape with Tr

WILLIAM GREASON (American, 1884-1945) Landscape with Trees and Pond at Sunset, 1924 Oil on canvas 31 x 42-1/2 inches (78.7 x 108.0 cm) Signed and dated lower right: W Greason / 1924 William Greason was born in St. Mary's, Ontario, Canada. He trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia under Thomas Anshutz as well as Hugh Breckenridge whose highly chromatic style had a profound impact on Greason's work. Greason also studied painting in Washington, DC and beginning in 1905, at the Academie Julian in Paris. After returning to the United States, he became a naturalized citizen in 1915 and settled in Detroit where he established at William Greason School of Fine Art. He exhibited regularly at the Scarab Club in Detroit and the Salmagundi Club in New York. He painted extensively in Michigan and also in New Lyme, CT.