Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Thomas Hill, ctd

Piute camp, Great Canyon of the Sierra, Yosemite

 Royal Arches and Domes of Yosemite (1879)

 Sentinel Rock, Yosemite (1880)

 Sir Donald Peak and Selkirk Glacier, Canada

 Sugar Loaf Peak, El Dorado County (1865)

 The Davidson Glacier

 The Driving of the Last Spike (1869)

 The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone (ca. 1884)

Vernal Falls, Yosemite (1889)

Monday, December 10, 2012

Winslow Homer - Civil War Illustrations

The War for the Union - A Bayonet Charge (1862)

 A Civil War Thanksgiving (1862)

 After Dinner, the Wish-Bone (1864)

 Holiday in Camp - Soldiers Playing "Foot-Ball" (1865)

 Home From the War (ca. 1863)

 News from the War (1862)

 Pay-Day in the Army of the Potomac (1863)

 Rebels Outside their Works at Yorktown (1862)

 Post Office of the Brooklyn Fair in Aid of the Sanitary Commission (1864)
[what was the Sanitary Commission?]

 The Approach of the British Pirate 'Alabama' (1863)

 The Seventy-Ninth Regiment Highlanders, New York State Militia (1861)

 The Surgeon at Work at the Rear During an Engagement (1862)

Winter Quarters in Camp - The Inside of a Hut (1863)

Friday, December 7, 2012

George Inness, ctd

 The Sun Shower (1847)

 The Trout Brook (1891)

A Breezy Autumn (1887)

 Twilight (1875)

 Winter Evening, Montclair (1860)

 Winter Evening (1887)

 Winter, Close of Day (1866)

Woodland Interior (ca. 1893)

Thursday, December 6, 2012

Miscellanea

 Arthur Frank Mathews: Discovery of San Francisco Bay (1896)

 Charles Christian Eisele: Mt. Tabor, Portland, Oregon (ca. 1890s)

 Edwin White: Landing of the Huguenots in Florida (1859)

 Gilbert Davis Munger: Great Salt Lake Utah and the Wasatch Mountains (1880)

 James Hope: Winter House (1873)

Norton Bush: Sutter's Fort as It Appeared in 1846

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

William Tylee Ranney

William Tylee Ranney (1813-1857) was an American painter specializing in scenes of American frontier life.

 Prairie Burial (1848)

 The Fallen Trapper (1852)

 The Lazy Fisherman (1850)

 The Trappers (1856)

 The Wounded Hound (1850)

 The Wounded Scout (1845)

 Tories with a Prisoner (1857)

 Trapper Crossing the Mountains (1853)

Wild Duck Shooting on the Wing (ca. 1850)

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

William Mason Brown

William Mason Brown (1828-1898) was an American painter of still lifes and landscapes. He specialized in realistic paintings of fruit. (His peaches look good enough to eat!)

 Autumn Landscape (1861)

 Autumn Reflections

 Autumnal Landscape

 Bend in the River

 Children in a Snowy Landscape

 Early Snow

 Fruit and Wine

Fruits of Summer