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William Savory Bucklin was both commercially successful and also artistically acclaimed during his lifetime (1851-1928).

William Savory Bucklin painted from the east to the west coasts of the United States, and not only painted numerous individual pictures, but also produced wall murals for public spaces and illustrations for magazines.

William Savory Bucklin is also notable for being part of the Bucklin connection with the historically interesting American Phalanx movement of the 19th century. William Savery's father - John Bucklin) - was a prime mover in the social experiment known as the Phalanx movement. William Savery's birthplace and lifelong residence was in that experimental social community. Read about the New Jersey Phalanx.

We maintain a biography of William Savery Bucklin,
and a biography of his father, John Bucklin

We provide photos, with notes, of artistic works of William Savory Bucklin. This includes the only existing available listing and images of the extant art work of W.S.Bucklin.

Above is a splendid example of W. S. Bucklin's paintings.  Lovely landscapes, extensive impasto. impressionist styling,  and a "moody" palette typify most of Bucklin's work.  "Moody" might be better described as colors accurately conveying the cloudy light so common along the northeastern costal states of the United States.

The above oil painting is held by Virginia Berg, who says: "The painting was in my great aunt and great uncle's home, at least from 1945 when first saw it."  Her statement describes what is typical history of W.S.Bucklin's paintings during the last century, to wit: they have been held, usually in the same substantial frame, as a treasured part of a household, passed down by inheritance to the present day.

Another typical painting by William Savery Bucklin is titled "Spring." The canvas, containing both oil and watercolor, contains Williams typical signature, shown above at the top of this article, with both the date of 1900 and "Phalanx" as the apparent date and place where it was painted. The painting measures approximately 37 3/4" by 28 1/4" and for some time has been in its present large frame under glass.  The owner, Linda Rausch, received the painting before 1977 from her grandmother, and states:

"My grandmother originally had four paintings, titled Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter. I remember the painting of Summer being about the size of Spring which is [shown above] ...and as I recall it was as a meadow with a spring running through it and cows. Fall and Winter were smaller and unfortunately I don't remember the details. I believe they were all oil and watercolor however, I'm not positive of that either.. . The one remaining painting is a treasure to me and it is extremely unfortunate that the others were lost in the house fire where my grandmother also died July 4th weekend of 1977....[My grandmother's family] the Fairchild family had an appreciation for his art and wanted to support that by purchasing some of his paintings. The painting is signed, however I have no idea if there is additional information under the backing. There are some tiny chips in the oil as it is under glass and I have never wanted to disturb that for fear of creating an additional problem."

Continue to extant art work of W.S.Bucklin