Thursday, September 6, 2012

Albert Bierstadt, ctd

 Moose Hunters' Camp (ca. 1880)

 Mount Corcoran (1876-77)

 Niagara Falls

 On the Saco (1886)

 Oregon Trail (1863)

 Rocky Mountains (engraved by James David Smillie)

 Seal Rocks (1872)

 Seals on the Rocks, Farallon Islands (1873)

Sunlight and Shadow (1862)

I had the good fortune to see the last painting, Sunlight and Shadow, in person at the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco last week. While it's a nice image on the computer, the real thing is stunning.

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

George Inness, ctd

 Afterglow on the Prairie (1856)

 Etretat (1875)

 Green Marshes (ca. 1889)

 Harvest Moon

Harvest Scene in the Delaware Valley (1867)

 Hillside at Etretat (1876)

Home at Montclair (1892)

 Late Afternoon (1882)

 Lone Farm, Nantucket (1892)

Monastery at Albano (1875)

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Frederick Arthur Bridgman, ctd

La Jeune Mauresque, Campagne d'Algiers 
(Moorish Girl, Algiers Countryside)

 Learning the Qu'ran (1921)

 Near the Kasbah (1881)

 North African Market (1923)

 On the Terrace

 Pharaoh's Army Engulfed by the Red Sea (1900)

 Plowing the Field

 Procession of the Apis Bull (1879)

 Queen of the Brigands

Friday, August 31, 2012

Tonalism

Tonalism was a school of American landscape painting that originated in the 1880s.

 Arthur Hoeber: Stream in Winter (ca. 1895)

 Arthur Hoeber: Sunset Marshands

 L. Birge Harrison: November Sun

 Carl Christian Brenner: Beech Trees (ca. 1880)

 Carl Christian Brenner: Landscape with Trees and Broken Fence (1884)

 Carl Christian Brenner: Train Approaching a Pass (1887)

 Clark Voorhees: December Moonrise (ca. 1908)

 Frank Peyraud: Twilight (1900)

 George Fuller: The Tomato Patch (1878)

 Gilbert David Munger: After the Storm

Henry Golden Dearth: In the Gloaming (1889)

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Brief Hiatus

I will resume posting on Friday, August 31.

Eastman Johnson, ctd

The Field Hospital

 The Girl I Left Behind Me (1870-75)

 The Hatch Family (1870-71)

 The Ice Skater (1879)

 The Lesson (1874)

 The Little Convalescent (ca. 1872)

 The Little Soldier

The Lord is my Shepherd (1863)

Monday, August 27, 2012

Winslow Homer - Woodcuts

Winslow Homer produced hundreds of woodcuts and etchings for popular magazines (especially Harper's Weekly), both during and after the Civil War.

 A Boston Watering-Cart

  A Country Store - Getting Weighed

 A Parisian Ball - Dancing at the Casino

 A Parisian Ball - Dancing at the Mabille

 A Quiet Day in the Woods

 A Snow Slide in the City

 A Winter Morning, Shovelling Out

 Art Students and Copyists in the Louvre Gallery

August in the Country - The Sea-Shore

Babylon is Fallen