Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Miscellanea

 Andrew Melrose: Westward the Star of Empire Takes its Way - Near Council Bluffs, Iowa (1867)

 Charles Marion Russell: Meat's Not Meat Till it's in the Pan (1915)

 Christian Friedrich Mayr: Kitchen Ball at White Sulphur Springs, Virginia (1838)

 Daniel Huntington: The Field Family in a Garden (1869)

 Frank Blackwell Mayer: Independence (Squire Jack Porter) (1858)

 George David Coulon: Bayou Beauregard, St. Bernard Parish (1887)

 Harrington Fitzgerald: The Wreck (1901)

Ransome Gillet Holdredge: Cabin in the Redwoods

Monday, October 15, 2012

Winslow Homer, ctd

 Peach Blossoms (1879)

 Peach Blossoms (1878)

 Picking Apples (1878)

 Pitching Quoits (1865)
[about the game of quoits]

 Portrait of Helena de Kay (ca. 1872)
[about this painting]

 Portrait of a Lady (1875)

Prisoners from the Front (1866)

 Promenade on the Beach (1880)

 Rab and the Girls (1875)

Rainy Day in Camp (1871)
[about this painting]

Friday, October 12, 2012

Albert Bierstadt, ctd

Mountain Scene

 Nevada Falls, Yosemite (1872-73)

 The Morteratsch Glacier, Upper Engadine Valley, Pontresina (1895)

 The Oregon Trail
 
 The Turquoise Shore (1878)

 The Wolf River, Kansas (ca. 1859)

 View of Chimney Rock, Ogalillah Sioux Village (1860)

 Western Kansas (1875)

 Yosemite Valley

 Yosemite Valley

Thursday, October 11, 2012

William Bradford

William Bradford (1823-1892) was an American painter who specialized in Arctic and maritime scenery.

 A Sunset Calm in the Bay of Fundy (1860)

 An Arctic Summer: Boring Through the Pack in Melville Bay (1871)

 Arctic Caravan

 Arctic Harbor

 Arctic Invaders (1882)

 Fishing Fleet off Labrador (1884)

 Floe Ice (1870-79)

 Ice Dwellers, Watching the Invaders (1879)

Labrador Fishing Boats near Cape Charles

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

William McGregor Paxton

William McGregor Paxton (1869-1941) was an American painter who specialized in portraits of women. His style drew inspiration from the Dutch Baroque painter Johannes Vermeer.

 Diana of the Peaks

 Girl Combing Her Hair (1909)

 Glitter (1930)

 Glow of Gold, Gleam of Pearl (1906)

 In the Studio (ca. 1905)

 La Russe (1913)

 Leaving the Studio (1921)

 Nude (1915)

 Penumbra (1915)

Rose and Blue (1913)

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Dwight Tryon

Dwight Tryon (1849-1925) was a landscape artist in the Tonalist school.

 Apple Blossoms (1895)

 Autumn Day (1911)

 Autumn Night (1916)

 Autumn, New England (1916-17)

 Before Sunrise, June (1905)

 Daybreak (1885)

 Early Dawn (1900)

 Fall Plowing (1916)

Farmyard (1896)