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Charles Warren Eaton American, 1857-1937 Among the Pines Signed Chas. Warren Eaton. (lr) Oil on canvas 24 x 20 inches Provenance: Private collection, VA A leading figure in American Tonalism, Charles Warren Eaton was influenced by French Barbizon painting and by George Inness, who encouraged him and had a studio adjacent to his in 1889. Eaton is best known for the poetic images of the white pine forests of New England that he began to create about 1900. In his art, he portrayed the locales where these trees - extolled also by Henry David Thoreau - had arisen over spare countrysides in which other species had been eliminated due to grazing. His images of the lonely, monolithic stands against the sunset evoke a sadness for this loss. It was for depictions of this subject that Eaton became known as "The Pine Tree Artist." These landscapes, with their subdued palettes and structured designs were well suited to Arts and Crafts environments (such as the home the artist designed for himself in Bloomfield, New Jersey, in 1914). C The Spanierman Gallery, LLC