The Swimming Hole, Granby Connecticut

This is an original oil on canvas painting by American Tonalist, Franklin DeHaven.  The title on the back is: The Swimming Hole, Granby, Con.  This painting was created circa 1890-1910.  Signed lower right the painting measures 24X18 inches and is in a period Hassam style frame.  Franklin DeHaven was born in Indiana in 1856. Around the age of twenty he moved to New York City and studied painting with George H. Smillie, who was then in transition from a second-generation Hudson River School style to the more fashionable Barbizon style. Like many Tonalists, DeHaven probably developed his mature style out of an appreciation for Barbizon painting that he developed early in his artistic training. He is best known for his poetic landscapes of the New England countryside, (Godel)