Monday, October 29, 2012

Winslow Homer, ctd


 Red Shirt, Homosassa, Florida (1904)

 Rocky Coast and Gulls (1869)

 Shall I Tell Your Fortune? (1876)

 Shark Fishing (1885)

Shepherdess Tending Sheep
 
 Shipbuilding at Gloucester (1871)

 Shooting the Rapids (1902)

 Skirmish in the Wilderness (1864)

Sparrow Hall (ca. 1881-82)

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)