John White Allen Scott (1815- March 4, 1907) was an American painter and lithographer associated with the Hudson River School and White Mountain art.
Biography John White Allen Scott or John W.A. Scott was born in Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts, in 1815.Boston Directory. 1851, 1857Boston Almanac. 1870 Scott began as an apprentice at Pendleton's Lithography in 1830 at the same time as fellow Roxbury native Nathaniel Currier of Currier and Ives. In 1844 Scott started a lithography firm in partnership with Fitz Hugh Lane ("Lane & Scott's Lithography"), which lasted until 1847.John William Reps. Views and viewmakers of urban America: lithographs of towns and cities in the United States and Canada, notes on the artists and publishers, and a union catalog of their work, 1825-1925. University of Missouri Press, 1984Barbara Novak. American painting of the nineteenth century: realism, idealism, and the American experience. Oxford University Press US, 2007 The firm successfully produced lithographs dominated by ships, landscapes and architectural forms. Scott continued to produce "exceptional" lithographs into the 1850s and would remain friends with Lane. Around 1852 he kept a studio in Boston's Tremont Temple.Destructive Fire. Boston Daily Atlas; Date: 04-01-1852 Scott's work sold well during his time; for instance, in 1855 he "sold more than 50 landscapes at auction."Ballou's Dollar Monthly Magazine, July 1855 Among his favorite subjects was Southern New Hampshire's Mount Monadnock. He belonged to the New England Art UnionBulletin of the New England Art Union, No. 1 (1852) and the Boston Art Club (1863-1907), of which he was the oldest member at the time of his death.New York Times, March 5, 1907 Scott also frequently exhibited at the Boston Athenæum.
Scott's paintings are now held in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Currier Museum of Art, the Farnsworth Art Museum, the New Hampshire Historical Society, and The Butler Institute of American Art, among other museums and galleries.
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NYPL. View of Newburyport, (from Salisbury), 1846. By Lane & Scott Post Road Gallery, NY. Work by Scott White Mtn. Art & Artists Skinner auctioneers, Massachusetts. Work by Scott