Friday, August 24, 2012

Julian Scott

Julian Scott (1846-1901) painted scenes of the American Civil War. He served in the Union Army during the war and received the Medal of Honor for his service.

 A Break: Playing Cards (1881)

 Civil War Drummer Boys Playing Cards (1891)

 The Death of General Sedgwick, Spotsylvania, May 9, 1864 (1887)

 The March Home (1879)

 The Mounted Sentry (1884)

 Union Soldiers Taking a Confederate Redoubt (1872)

Vermont Division at The Battle of Chancellorsville (1871-72)

Thursday, August 23, 2012

Louis Remy Mignot

Louis Remy Mignot (1831-1870) was an American Creole landscape painter who seems to have lived a rather eventful life. He painted scenes of South America, the American Northeast and the South.

"Ave Maria": Evening in the Tropics I (1861)

"Ave Maria": Evening in the Tropics II (1862)

 "Ave Maria": Evening in the Tropics III

 Church at Dusk

 Indian Summer, Lake George (1862)

 Karhuikazo (1860)

 Lagoon of the Guayaquil (1863)

 Landscape in Ecuador (1859)

 Mount Chimborazo (ca. 1866)

Mountain Lake in Autumn (1861)

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)