Landscape

A 1930s postcard of Andermatt looking towards Hospental and the Furka. The Bellevue Palace Hotel, run by the artist’s brother Alberto (demolished 1986) is the large building in the foreground.

Muller-Ury relaxing at the Havemeyer’s country house, Mountainside Farm, Mahwah NJ circa 1930. Photo gifted to the editor by Florence Havemeyer Robinson.

Very few landscapes by Muller-Ury are known, and usually these were small paintings made in the St. Gotthard region of Switzerland, but early in his career he painted a huge painting of the Bushkill Falls in Pennsylvania, probably to show his ability in a genre in which American artists during the nineteenth century had excelled.

There are pictures which were probably landscapes to be found in the Exhibition listing – such as the Idylle or Idylle am Meer exhibited at four venues in Switzerland in 1888 and the picture just called Morning exhibited at the MINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS in 1908 – but as nothing more is known about them presently it has been decided not to give them separate catalogue entries.

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