Hello!-I'm a new member-Searching for artist information. Does anyone recognize this artist's signature?
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To me it looks like C.T. Wood maybe google Artist C.T Wood or G.T. Wood
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These kind of paintings are ‘formulaic’ and were produced by or commissioned by commercial studios and galleries for sale as wall art. The signatures are usually invented pseudonyms (ie you won’t find biographies for actual artists with those names) and sometimes shared across a team of artists. They work to a brief, often with photographs or other works to use as inspiration and churn out multiple variations of similar scenes including trees, lakes, waterfalls, log cabins and such as standard scenic components. The artist(s) may even be Chinese, but with the works signed with credible, but fictitious, ‘English’ names. Lots of them get posted on Tnet and aren’t usually identifiable unless they have a studio name on the back of the frame. Typically, they date from around the 1950s through to the 1970s.
This from the ‘justanswer’ antiques appraisal website pretty much sums up works of this kind:
RE; Winter landscape, signed C. T. Wood [image not retrievable]. This has the look of a "production"-type painting. It is probably an Oriental painting despite the "Anglo" name. These kinds of paintings are produced for the less expensive end of the decorator market, usually by a painter in a "stable" of artists who produce paintings under Western names… Large oil on canvas landscape, good condition, well framed. As such, it would have a resale value of $200-$225.
The appraised price is realistic for nicely framed large works of good quality which are actually original oil paintings. Similar examples exist which are prints on canvas-textured board as simulated oil paintings, and as a combination of the two where an artist overpaints on a print to bring it to life. Those are rather less valuable (in the tens of dollars).
These kind of paintings are ‘formulaic’ and were produced by or commissioned by commercial studios and galleries for sale as wall art. The signatures are usually invented pseudonyms (ie you won’t find biographies for actual artists with those names) and sometimes shared across a team of artists. They work to a brief, often with photographs or other works to use as inspiration and churn out multiple variations of similar scenes including trees, lakes, waterfalls, log cabins and such as standard scenic components. The artist(s) may even be Chinese, but with the works signed with credible, but fictitious, ‘English’ names. Lots of them get posted on Tnet and aren’t usually identifiable unless they have a studio name on the back of the frame. Typically, they date from around the 1950s through to the 1970s.
This from the ‘justanswer’ antiques appraisal website pretty much sums up works of this kind:
RE; Winter landscape, signed C. T. Wood [image not retrievable]. This has the look of a "production"-type painting. It is probably an Oriental painting despite the "Anglo" name. These kinds of paintings are produced for the less expensive end of the decorator market, usually by a painter in a "stable" of artists who produce paintings under Western names… Large oil on canvas landscape, good condition, well framed. As such, it would have a resale value of $200-$225.
The appraised price is realistic for nicely framed large works of good quality which are actually original oil paintings. Similar examples exist which are prints on canvas-textured board as simulated oil paintings, and as a combination of the two where an artist overpaints on a print to bring it to life. Those are rather less valuable (in the tens of dollars).
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