Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Daniel Ridgway Knight

Daniel Ridgway Knight (1839-1924) was an American painter who mostly worked in Europe. He specialized in depictions of women in rural settings.

 A Moment of Rest

 Chrysanthemums

 Hailing the Ferryman

 Harvest Scene (1875)

 Leçon de Danse

 Picking Poppies

 Picking Wildflowers

 Returning Home

Spring Blossoms

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Cornelius Krieghoff, ctd

 Lt. Alfred Torrens and His Wife in Front of the Citadel (ca. 1854)

 On Lake Laurent (1863)

 Playtime, Village School (ca. 1857)

 Return from the Hunt (1871)

 Settler's House

 Settler's Log House (1856)

 Sleigh Race Across the Ice (1861)

 Sleigh Race on the St. Lawrence at Quebec (1852)

The Ice Bridge at Longue-Pointe (1847-48)

Monday, October 1, 2012

Winslow Homer - Illustrations

 Bathing at Long Branch - Oh, Ain't it Cold (1871)

 Chestnutting (1871)

 Christmas Belles (1869)

 Close of the War - Hull's Victory (1865)

 Corner of Winter, Washington and Summer Streets, Boston (1857)

 Cutting a Figure (1871)

 Deer Stalking in the Adirondacks in Winter (1871)

 Fall Games - The Apple Bee (1859)

Fire-works on the Night of the Fourth of July (1868)

Friday, September 28, 2012

Miscellanea

 Alfred Wordsworth Thompson: The Road Out of Norfolk (1888)

 Cornelia Adele Strong Fassett: Mrs. Lamb in Her Study (1878)

 Henry Ferguson: A View of Gold Street, New York

 John Barnard Whittaker: The Lesson
 or The John Ewart Tousey Family at Home in Brooklyn, New York (1871-72)

 Julian Davidson: The Emma Abbott, First Floating Hospital (1876)

 Newton Alonzo Wells: Castor Oil (1891)

 Samuel Richards: Evangeline Discovering Her Affianced in the Hospital (1877-79)
[depicting an incident from Longfellow's poem]

William Coulter: San Francisco Fire, 1906
[aftermath of the great earthquake]

Thursday, September 27, 2012

George Inness, ctd

Morning, Catskill Valley (also known as The Red Oaks) (1894)

 Niagara (1889)

 October Noon (1891)

 October (1886)

 Old Homestead (ca. 1877)

 Orange Road, Tarpon Springs (1893)

 Rosy Morning (1894)

 Shades of Evening (1877)

Summer, Montclair (1891)

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Albert Bierstadt, ctd

Sunrise on the Platte River, Nebraska

 Sunset in the Yosemite Valley (1868)

 Sunset over the River (1868)

 The Buffalo Trail (ca. 1867)

 The Emerald Pool (1870)

 The Falls of St. Anthony (1880-87)

 The Great Trees, Mariposa Grove, California (1876)

The Grizzly Giant Sequoia, Mariposa Grove, California (1872-73)

 The Landing of Columbus (1892)
[obviously painted for the 400th anniversary of Columbus's voyage]