Monday, August 20, 2012

Monday Miscellanea

 Alfred Cornelius Howland: Fourth of July Parade (ca. 1886)

 Charles Yardley Turner: The Grand Canal, Dordrecht, Holland

 Gutzon Borglum: Staging in California (1889)

 Howard Russell Butler: The Seaweed Gatherers (1886)

 John Evers: Front Street, Hempstead, New York (1870)

 Mauritz Frederik Hendrik de Haas: Farragut's Fleet

 Robert Koehler: The Strike (1886)

Charles Deas: Long Jakes, the Rocky Mountain Man (1844)

Friday, August 17, 2012

George Inness

George Inness (1825-1894) was an influential American Tonalist painter.

 A Breezy Autumn (1887)

 Across the Hudson Valley in the Foothills of the Catskills (1868)

 Afterglow (1878)

 California

 Clearing Up (1860)

 Cromwell's Bridge (1875)

 Early Morning, Tarpon Springs (1892)

 From my Studio Window

 Georgia Pines (1890)

 Golden Sunset

Gray Day, Goochland, Virginia (1884)

Thursday, August 16, 2012

Winslow Homer, ctd

 Contraband (1875)
[in this context, "contraband" means runaway slave]

 Cornfield (1873)

 Crab Fishing (1883)

 Croquet Players (1863)

 Croquet Scene (1866)

 Crossing the Pasture (1871-72)

 Dad's Coming (1873)

 Daughter of the Coast Guard (1881)

 Deer Drinking (1892)

 Defiance: Inviting a Shot Before Petersburg, Virginia (1864)

Dogs in a Boat (also known as Waiting for the Start) (1889)

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Frederick Arthur Bridgman, ctd

Cafe at Biskra, Algeria (1884)

 Cleopatra on the Terraces of Philae (1896)

 Courtyard, El Biar

 Fountain of Birkadem, Algiers (1896)

 Funeral of a Mummy (1876-77)

 In a Village, El Biar, Algeria (1889)

 In the Souk
[a "souk" is an open-air marketplace]
 
 L'Indolence

Idle Moments - An Arab Courtyard

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Miscellanea

 Alexander Harmer: Battle of the Flowers, Fleet Festival (1908)

 Charles Greener: Early Start (1913)

 Frederick Judd Waugh: Chess Players (1891)

 James Jebusa Shannon: On the Dunes (Lady Shannon and Kitty)

 John Adam Houston: The Fugitive Slave (1853)

 Louis Lang: Reminiscences of Lake Mahopac, New York: Ladies Preparing for a Boat Race (1864-65)

 Richard Caton Woodville: Old '76 and Young '48 (1849)

Walter Shirlaw: Water Lilies (ca. 1899)

Monday, August 13, 2012

Eastman Johnson, ctd

 Ruth (ca. 1880)

 Sugaring Off at the Camp, Fryeburg, Maine (1864)

 Sugaring Off (ca. 1870)

 Sunday Morning (1863)
[no NFL Sunday for these folks :( ]

 The Boyhood of Lincoln - an Evening in the Log Hut (1868)

 The Card Players (1853)

 The Cranberry Harvest, Island of Nantucket (1880)

The Early Lovers (ca. 1870)