Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Samuel S. Carr

Samuel S. Carr (1837–1908) was an American pastoral and landscape painter. One of his specialties was genre paintings of children.

 A Cold Walk Home

 Beach at Coney Island

 Beach Scene

 Children on the Beach

 Christmas Eve along the Hudson with the Palisades across the River

  Getting Ready for the Market

 Little Drummer Boy

 News From Her Sailor Boy (1887)

 Picking Daisies (1883)

 Reading by the Fire

 School Days (1872)

 School's Out (1882)

 Untitled (Pastoral Scene)

 Westward Ho for New York

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

George Henry Durrie, ctd

Here's the second set of paintings by Durrie.

 Jones Inn, Winter (1853)

 Red School House, Winter (1858)

 The Half-Way House (1861)

 Winter Farmyard and Sleigh (1860)

 Winter Scene in New England (1859)

 Winter in New England (1852)

 Winter in the Country, Distant Hills (1861)

 Winter in the Country, Getting Ice (1862)

Winter in the Country, The Old Grist Mill (1862)

Monday, June 4, 2012

George Henry Durrie

George Henry Durrie (1820-1863) was best known and very popular for his paintings of winter scenes in New England. Many of these were reproduced as lithographs by Currier and Ives, increasing Durrie's popularity. Here is a detailed biography of Durrie.

This is the first of two sets of paintings by Durrie.

 A Christmas Party (1852)

 A Cold Morning (1861)

 Cider Pressing (1855)

 Farmstead in Winter (1860)

 Feeding the Sheep (1862)

 Gathering Wood for Winter (1855)

 Going to Church (1853)

 Haying at Jones Inn (1854)

Hunter in Winter Wood (1860)

Friday, June 1, 2012

William Sidney Mount, ctd

Here is the final segment of William Sidney Mount.

 Raffling for the Goose (1837)

 Right and Left (1850)

 Ringing the Pig (also known as Scene in a Long Island Farmyard) (1842)

 The Banjo Player in the Barn (1855)

 The Banjo Player (1856)

 The Blackberry Girls (1840)

 The Painter's Triumph (1838)

 The Power of Music (1847)

 The Tough Story - Scene in a Country Tavern (1837)

The Truant Gamblers (also known as Undutiful Boys) (1835)

Thursday, May 31, 2012

William Sidney Mount, ctd


Courtship (also known as Winding Up) (1836)

 Dance of the Haymakers (1845)

 Dancing on the Barn Floor (1831)

 Dregs in the Cup (also known as Fortune-Telling) (1838)

 Eel Spearing at Setauket (1845)

 Fair Exchange, No Robbery (1865)

 Farmer Whetting His Scythe (1848)

 Farmers Nooning (1836)

 Just in Tune (1849)

Long Island Farmhouses (1862-63)

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

William Sidney Mount

William Sidney Mount (1807-1868) was an American genre painter. His paintings offer a delightful peek at 19th century American life.

 After Dinner (1834)

 Bargaining for a Horse (1835)

 Barroom Scene (1835)

 Bird Egging (1844)

California News (1850)

 Catching Crabs

 Catching Rabbits (Boys Trapping) (1839)

 Caught Napping (1848)

 Cider Making (1840-41)

Coming to the Point