19th century American Paintings

Friday, July 13, 2012

Henry Mosler

Henry Mosler (1841-1920) was a Polish-born American artist.

Approaching Storm (ca. 1885)

Buying the Wedding Trousseau (1880)

Harvest Festival (1884)

Just Moved (1870)

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Peasant Girl and Doves (ca. 1880)

Pilgrim's Grace (1897)

Quilting Bee (1916-17)

Return of the Shrimp Fishers (1880-81)

The Chimney Corner (1893)

Visit of the Marquese (1887)

Thursday, July 12, 2012

Frederic Edwin Church

Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900) was one of the leading members of the Hudson River School.

A Country Home (1854)

Above the Clouds at Sunrise (1849)

Aurora Borealis (1865)

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Autumn (1875)

Beacon, off Mount Desert Island (1855)

Grand Manan Island, Bay of Fundy (1852)

Home of the Pioneer (1852)

July Sunset, Berkshire County, Massachusetts (1847)

Morning, Looking East over the Husdon Valley from Catskill Mountains (1848)

New England Scenery (1851)

Our Banner in the Sky (ca. 1861)

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Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Paintings of Winter

In honor of the hottest day of the year so far (here), here are some cooling images. We start with three paintings of ice skating in New York's Central Park, spanning a period of nearly 70 years.

Johann Culverhouse: Skating in Central Park (1865)

John O'Brien Inman: Moonlight Skating, Central Park, the Terrace and Lake (1878)

Agnes Tait: Skating in Central Park (1934)

Charles Christian Nahl: The Dead Miner (1867)

John Carlin: Snow Scene at Utica (1873)

Louis Remy Mignot: Hunters in a Winter Landscape (1856)

Martin Reissner: The 'Forest Queen' in Winter (1857)

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

John George Brown, ctd

The final set of paintings by JG Brown.

The Peacemaker (1867)

The Teacher (1866)

The Transit of Venus (1883)

[there was a transit of Venus in June 2012; the painting depicts the December 1882 transit]

The Young Mother (1875)

Three Girls on a Swing (1868)

Thus Perish the Memory of Our Love (1865)

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Waiting for William (1879)

We Can't Be Caught (ca. 1876)

What's Your Name? (1876)

The child in this schoolroom scene, acting as a teacher's monitor, has just written two columns of names under "bad" and "excellent" on the blackboard. Her gaze has a concentrated intensity that immediately engages the viewer. At the top of the "bad" column, the name "Belle Brown" appears, perhaps offering a clue to the young girl's identity. Belle Brown, a daughter of the artist by his first wife Mary Owen, was born in 1864 and would have been twelve years old at the time Brown completed this work.
(from Domestic Bliss: Family Life in American Painting, 1840-1910, by Lee M. Edwards and Timothy Anglin Burgard, p. 112)