Frederic Edwin Church, ctd

Here are some of Church's paintings of South American scenes.

 Cayambe (1858)

 Mount Chimborazo, Ecuador (1864)

 Cotopaxi (1855)

Heart of the Andes (1859)

Morning in the Tropics (1877)

 Tamaca Palms (1854)

 The Cordilleras, Sunrise (1854)

 Tropical Scenery (1873)

 View of Cotopaxi (1857)

View on the Magdalena River (1857)

 Eruption at Cotopaxi (1862)

I can't resist posting a modern parody of Church's 1862 Cotopaxi painting, beautifully done by Joshua Caez:

Joshua Caez: Erupting Cotopaxi (2007)

Lilly Martin Spencer

Lilly Martin Spencer (1822-1902) was the most famous American woman painter of the 19th century. She painted mostly domestic scenes and portraits. Her paintings are notable for the humor that many of them display.

Here is a biographical essay about LMS.

 Clap Hands (1855)

 Domestic Happiness (1849)

 Kiss Me and You’ll Kiss the ‘Lasses (1856)

["the 'lasses" being short for "molasses"]

 Peeling Onions (ca. 1852)

 Reading the Legend (1852)

The Artist and Her Family on a Fourth of July Picnic (ca. 1864)

The Artist and Her Family on a Fourth of July Picnic 

(engraved by Samuel Hollyer and John Rogers)

 The War Spirit at Home: Celebrating the Battle at Vicksburg (1866)

[article about this painting]

 The Young Husband: First Marketing (1854)

[about this painting]

 The Young Wife: First Stew (1854)

We Both Must Fade (Mrs. Fithian) (1869)

[about this painting]

 Height of Fashion (lithograph by Jean-Baptiste Adolphe LaFosse) (1854)

One of Life's Happy Hours (engraved by Alfred Jones)

Frederick Arthur Bridgman

Frederick Arthur Bridgman (1847-1928) was an American Orientalist painter.

 A Coastal Trail

 A Scene in Morocco (1885)

 A Street in Algeria

 After the Bath

 Afternoon in Algiers

 An Egyptian Procession (1902)

 Armenian Woman (1882)

 At the Fountain

Blacksmith Shop at Tangiers (1876)

Winslow Homer, ctd.

An Adirondack Lake (1870)

 Army Boots (1865)

 Artists Sketching in the White Mountains (1868)

 At Tampa (1885)

 Autumn (1877)

 Beach Scene, Cullercoats (1881)

 Beach Scene (1869)

 Boys in a Pasture (1874)
[about this painting]

 Camp Fire (1880)
[what a wonderfully evocative painting!]

Cernay la Ville, French Farm (1867)

Frederic Edwin Church, ctd

 Niagara Falls from the American Side (1867)

 Niagara Falls (1857)

 Our Flag (1864)

[a clear political statement, painted while the Civil War still raged]

 Storm in the Mountains (1847)

 A Sunset (1856)

 The Iceberg (1891)

 The Icebergs (1861)

The Meteor of 1860

[about this painting] [about the meteor depicted in this painting]