JOHN A. MOONEY (VIRGINIA, 1843-1918) JAMESTOWN, VIRGINIA LANDSCAPE, oil on canvas, depicting the newly constructed monument erected in conjunction with the Jamestown Exposition of 1907, signed and dated lower right. Unframed. Dated 1907. 12" x 20".
Provenance: Deaccessioned by the Valentine Museum, Richmond, VA to benefit collections care, preservation and future acquisitions.
Catalogue Note: Born in Buffalo, New York, John A. Mooney (1843-1918) traveled to Georgia to enlist in the Confederate Army at the outbreak of the Civil War. After the cessation of hostilities, he remained in the South and began painting professionally in earnest. He is know to have painted scenes in Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. He died of tuberculosis in a Richmond, Virginia almshouse in 1918.
Good as-found original condition with scattered moderate abrasions and discoloration, puncture to tree at left.