Original Oil on Board by Frank Louisville Bowie

Original Oil on Board painting by Maine listed artist Frank Louisville Bowie (1857 - 1936). It depicts a house on a pond in early autumn. Estimated to be circa late 1800's or early 1900's. Signed in the bottom right corner.

Measures approximately 12" x 9" in a gorgeous frame measuring approximately 15" x 12".

For those not familiar with Frank Louisville Bowie, here is his bio from AskArt submitted May 2004 by Dr. Bob Bowie, relative of the artist.

Frank L. Bowie is listed in the Portland Directory 1874 - 1878 as a clerk living at 42 Howard. His marriage to Miss Rosa F. Rumery Deering was June 10, 1890. Frank L. Bowie is listed in the 1912 Portland Maine Directory as a shipping clerk, with a home on 28 Locust Street. He was an artist who painted for years in Portland having studied under Hudson and Charles Fox at the Cox Art School in Boston. In later years he was custodian of the Sweat Art Museum Portland. Frank Lousiville Bowie was a member of the Brush-Ins (also founded the Brush'uns) a Portland Maine group of artists which also included Walter Gay. Bowie knew Winslow Homer. There is a photocopy of an old newspaper article about an exhibition at the Portland Art Museum in which his work was hung. It pictures Bowie as the Secretary of the Portland Society of Art. In 1926 Bowie was given a one-man exhibition at the museum. His father died in a train accident with other family members in 1902 at the Grand Trunk Crossing in Powana Maine.