Huntingdon Valley
A gorgeous range of prints, posters, canvases and other wall art - also including phone and iPad cases, mugs and more - based on a landscape oil painting of 1915-16 by US artist Henry Lyman Saÿen.
Born Philadelphia, PA in 1875, Henry Lyman Saÿen was one of the first painters to introduce modern art into the conservative culture of Philadelphia, and his large vibrant images of landscapes and still lifes shocked many people. An assistant at the department store even told the artist that “if that is the way you paint you will never put shoes on your child’s feet.”
World War I forced Saÿen to return to Philadelphia, where he spent his weekends at his friend Carl Newman’s summer home, painting the Huntington Valley landscape. (Breeskin, H. Lyman Saÿen, 1970)
Credit: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of H. Lyman Sayen to his nation
c. 1915-1916
