Two (2) American School oil on canvas landscape paintings. 1st item: Hudson River style landscape depicting two figures at the sparsely forested edge of a vast, rolling mountain range surrounding a large body of water beneath a twilight sky. Typed label with possible attribution to William John Burton (1814-1900), en verso of backing. Housed in a giltwood frame. Sight: 9 1/2" H x 11 1/2" W. Framed: 12 1/2" H x 14 1/2" W. 19th century. 2nd item: Unsigned oil on canvas mountain landscape painting after an original by Franz Emile Herman Krause (German, 1836-1900) depicting a rocky stream, two trees, a buck, and a distant mountain range bathed in morning or evening sunlight. Housed in a modern black and gilt frame. Reverse of canvas is stamped "Wadsworth Howland and Co. Boston and Chicago" in reference to the Wadsworth, Howland and Company artists' materials supplier. Inscription on reverse of frame, lower left, reads "Attrib– K Kause [sic]" and an illegible inscription is on the stretcher, upper right. Sight: 11 1/2" H x 15 1/2" W. Framed:15 1/4" H x 19 5/16" W. Likely late 19th or early 20th century.

PROVENANCE: Private Illinois Collection.

CONDITION: 1st item: Canvas has been partially cleaned with edges of old varnish apparent to sky and left portion of water. Minute area of inpainting to lowermost portion. Stretcher may be a replacement. 2nd item: Overall very good condition. Canvas has a minute area of paint loss to the left of the trees in the upper left. Faintly visible stress marks from the stretcher are visible in raking light along left and right edges of the canvas.