SAWYER Antique Hand Painted Birch Tree Photo., signature to lower right reads Sawyer, subject shows a path through a thicket with a prominent birch tree. In frame measures approx 16 1/2 x 9 1/2 in., brown toned wood frame, surface wear to frame, professionally framed, not examined out of frame. One of the most distinctive traits of artist Charles Sawyer was the way he recreated natures colorful spectrum throughout his work. Sawyer was a New York Tribune artist in the late 1890s, and trained under Wallace Nutting, another pioneer of hand-painted photography. Charles Sawyers photography became innovative for its black and white and sepia imagery, enhanced by touches of applied color - Mutual Art. CHARLES SAWYER Antique Hand Painted Birch Tree Photograph, antique art, antique photography, landscape art, antique mixed media art, painted photography, romantic art, American art, wall art, wall decor 7