Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Thomas Waterman Wood

Thomas Waterman Wood (1823-1903) was an American genre painter.

 A Bit of War History: The Contraband (1866)

 A Bit of War History: The Recruit (1866)

 A Bit of War History: The Veteran (1866)

 Fresh Eggs (1881)

 Neglecting Trade (1883)

 Not an Egg (1887)

 Sherry, Sir? (1880)

 Shining Shoes (1865)

 Spelling it Out (1879)

 There's One - Catch 'Em! (1857)

When We Were Boys Together (1881)

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Civil War

Here is another set of paintings of the American Civil War.

 Alonzo Chappel: The Last Hours of Lincoln (1868)

 Dennis Malone Carter: Lincoln's Drive Through Richmond (1866)

 Fletcher C. Ransom: Lincoln at Gettysburg

 Frances Flora Bond Palmer: The Mississippi in Time of War (1862)

 George Cochran Lambdin: Portrait of General Ulysses S. Grant (1867)

 George Cochran Lambdin: The Consecration (1865)

 Jean Leon Gerome Ferris: Let Us Have Peace (1920)

Jean Leon Gerome Ferris: Lincoln and the Contrabands, 1863 (1921)

Monday, July 16, 2012

Eastman Johnson

Eastman Johnson (1824-1906) was a prominent American genre painter. Among other things he co-founded the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

 An Earnest Pupil (1881)

 At the Camp, Spinning Yarns and Whittling (1864)

 Babes in the  Woods (1882)

 Catching the Bee (1872)

 Christmas-Time, the Blodgett Family (1864)

 Corn Husking (1860)

 Cranberry Pickers (1879)

Dinah, Portrait of a Negress (1866)

 Fiddling His Way (1866)

 Gathering Lilies (1865)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1846)

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)

 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)

 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)