Landscape artists at Silver Bay in 1892

Landscape artists John Bunyan Bristol and Ozias B. Dodge spent the summer of 1892 at Silver Bay on Lake George, in Hague.

Bristol’s wife and daughter also spent the summer.

Britstol, of New York City, was known for his painting of scenes from the Berkshires and the Adirondacks, and along the eastern seaboard as far south as Florida.

His Adirondack scenes include “Inlet on Lake George” and “Near Wilmington Pass.”

His work is in the collections of Adirondack Experience, formerly known as the Adirondack Museum, the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Bristol was born in 1826 and died in 1909.

He studied with Henry Ary of Hudson, but was largely self taught.

He began as a portrait painter, but switched to landscapes when he determined nature was a kinder subject than humans.

Bristol also was expected to spend a portion of the summer of 1893 at Lake George.

Ozias Dodge was born in 1868 at Morristown, Vt. and died in 1925 at Norwich, Conn.

Others spending the summer of 1892 at Silver Bay included Miss Antoinette Cornwell, who had recently been elected assistant to the president of Vassar College, and C. G. Fairchild, a professor at Oberlin College who was conducting a study of geological formations around Lake George.

Gerrard Hallock of Philadelphia stopped at Silver Bay with a class of college students on a canoe exhibition from Troy to Lake Champlain to Lake George.

Sources: Lake George Mirror, July 16, 1892, July 15, 1893; National Gallery of Art; Smithsonian American Art Museum.