Friday, October 26, 2012

Miscellanea

 Christian Schussele: The Young Recruits (Mock Army) (1855)

 Francis Blackwell Mayer: Old Annapolis, Francis Street (1876)

 Frank Waller: Interior View of The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Fourteenth Street (1881)

 Henry Salem Hubbell: Tea Time (1909)

 John Ludwig Krimmel: Blind Man's Bluff (1814)

 John White Alexander: Walt Whitman (1889)

 Junius Brutus Stearns: The Marriage of George Washington to Martha Custis (1849)

 Kenyon Cox: An Eclogue (1890)
[what is an eclogue?]

Thomas Allen: The Market Plaza, San Antonio (1878-79)

Thursday, October 25, 2012

Ralph Blakelock, ctd

Moonlight (ca. 1885)

 Mountain Landscape (1877)

 River in a Landscape

 Sunset Landscape

 Teepee at Sunset

 The Golden Hour

The Grotto (1880)

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Hudson Valley School, ctd

 Alfred Thompson Bricher: Morning at Grand Manan (1878)

 Asher Brown Durand: Landscape - Scene from "Thanatopsis" (1850)

 James McDougal Hart: A Tranquil Morning (1871)

 James Wethered Bell: Lake Scene

 Jasper Francis Cropsey: The Old Mill (1847)

 Jervis McEntee: Saturday Afternoon (1875)

 John Frederick Kensett: Twilight in the Cedars at Darien, Connecticut (1872)

 John William Casilear: Lake George (1860)

 Joseph Antonio Hekking: Autumn Landscape with River

Julia Hart Beers: Hudson Valley at Croton Point (1869)

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Pioneers and Settlers

 Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait: The Life of a Hunter: A Tight Fix (1856)

 George Cooke: The Coming of the Maidens as Wives for the Settlers (ca. 1830)

 Harvey Dunn: The Homesteader's Wife (1916)

 Jean Leon Gerome Ferris: The First Thanksgiving, 1621 (ca. 1932)

 John Gadsby Chapman: Baptism of Pocahontas (1839)

 Joshua Shaw: The Pioneers

 Robert Walter Weir: Embarkation of the Pilgrims (1843)

 Victor Nehlig: Pocahontas and John Smith (1874)

 William Powell: Discovery of the Mississippi by De Soto (1853)

 William Tylee Ranney: Advice on the Prairie (1853)

William Tylee Ranney: Boone's First View of Kentucky (1849)

Monday, October 22, 2012

Winslow Homer - Illustrations, ctd

Homeward Bound (1867)

 Low Tide (1870)

 Lumbering in Winter (1871)

 The War - Making Havelocks for the Volunteers (1861)
["havelocks" were sun shields that attached to the back of soldiers' hats]

 On the Beach - Two Are Company, Three Are None (1872)

 On the Beach at Long Branch - The Children's Hour (1874)

 On the Beach at Long Branch 

 On the Road to Lake George (1869)

Opening Day in New York (1868)

Friday, October 19, 2012

Joseph Rusling Meeker

Joseph Rusling Meeker (1827-1889) was a landscape painter.

 Bayou Plaquemines (1881)

 Louisiana Bayou (1887)

 The Land of Evangeline (1874)

The Stream in the Woods (1879)

Thursday, October 18, 2012

Charles Warren Eaton, ctd

 Spring Sunset (ca. 1893)

 Sunset Pines (ca. 1910)

 The Gray Dunes, Belgium

 The Road to Sluis, Holland (ca. 1910)

 The Strip of Pines (1908)

 Winter Orchard (1891)

Winter Stream (ca. 1885)