Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Charles Courtney Curran, ctd

Fair Critics (1887)

 Lady with a Bouquet (Snowballs) (1890)

 May Afternoon (1916)

 Playing Red Riding Hood (1907)

 Shadow Decoration (1887)

 Summer Clouds (1917)

 Summer (1906)

 The Artist at Work (1887)

 The Boulder (1919)

The Lanterns (1913)

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Frederic Edwin Church, ctd

Twilight in the Wilderness (1860)

 Twilight, Mount Desert Island, Maine (1865)

 View of Olana in the Snow (1870-75)
[Title sometimes given as View from Olana in the Snow]

 El Khasne, Petra (1874)

 Sunrise in Syria (1874)

 Syrian Landscape (1873)

 The Aegean Sea (ca. 1877)

The Parthenon (1871)

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