Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Vacation Break

I'll be on vacation until next Monday, when posting will resume.

Happy Thanksgiving!
Richard

Harry Roseland

Harry Roseland (1867-1950) was an American genre painter whose work often focused on black Americans.

 A Drawer of Memories

 A Serious Case (1898)

 An Important Letter (1898)

 Lullaby, Mother and Baby

 Mother and Child

 One More Spoon (1889)

 Reading the Tea Leaves

Reading the Tea Leaves

Monday, November 19, 2012

Winslow Homer - Illustrations, ctd

 Husking the Corn in New England (1858)

 Our Next President (1868)

 Our Watering Places - Horse-racing at Saratoga (1865)

 Our Watering Places - The Empty Sleeve at Newport (1865)

 Spring Blossoms (1870)

 Spring Farm Work (1870)

 Summer in the Country (1869)

 Thanksgiving Day - The Church Porch (1865)

 The Bathe at Newport (1858)

The Beach at Long Branch (ca. 1869)

Friday, November 16, 2012

Miscellanea

 Daniel Huntington: Sowing the Word (1868)

 Francis William Edmonds: Facing the Enemy (1845)
[what an amazingly honest painting this is]

 Frederick Rondel: Statue of Liberty Celebration

 Lee Lufkin Kaula: Mother Reading with Two Girls

 Pinckney Maricius-Simons: Canova, the Boy Sculptor

Samuel F. B. Morse: Gallery of the Louvre (1831-33)
[yes, this is the same Samuel F. B. Morse who invented the telegraph]

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Francis Davis Millet

Francis Davis Millet (1846-1912) was an American painter. He served as a drummer boy in the Civil War and died in the sinking of the Titanic.

 A Cozy Corner (1884)

 A Difficult Duet (1886)

 An Autumn Idyll (1892)

 Between Two Fires (ca. 1892)

Playing with Baby (ca. 1877-78)

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

William Bradford, ctd

 Morning on the Arctic Ice Fields

 Mount Lyell above Yosemite (1878)

 Sealers Crushed by Icebergs (1866)

 Seascape: Cliffs at Sunset

 Shipwreck off Nantucket (1860-61)

 Sunrise off Grand Manan (1860)

 The 'Panther' among the Icebergs in Melville Bay (1874)

Whaler and Fishing Vessels near the Coast of Labrador (ca. 1880)
 
Whalers Trapped by Arctic Ice

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

George Martin Ottinger

George Martin Ottinger (1833-1917) was an American painter. His biography (follow the link) reveals an eventful life.

 A Hasty Farewell (Capt. John Huston and Elizabeth Ottinger 1777) (1895)

 Above Camp Douglas (1868)

 Away Away to the Mountain Dell: The Valley of the Free Immigrant Train (1897)

 Aztec Maiden (1881)

 Courthouse Rock (1861)

Fisherman at the Mouth of Cottonwood Stream (1890)
 
 Immigrant Train at the City of the Rocks, Idaho (1870)

 Sugar Refinery Burning (1885)

 The Great Salt Lake From The Foot of Ensign Peak (1864)

 The Last of the Aztecs (1867)

Woman at Her Bath (1870)