Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Seymour Joseph Guy

Seymour Joseph Guy (1824-1910) was an American genre painter, born in England.

 An Interesting Book

 At the Brook

 A Bedtime Story (1878)

 Story of Golden Locks (ca. 1870)
[interesting to compare the two versions of t his painting]

 At the Opera (1887)

 At the Watering Trough

 Guilty

 Making a Train (1867)

 One for Mommy, One for Me (1881)

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Howard Russell Butler

Howard Russell Butler (1856-1934) was an American landscape painter. He did a series of paintings in the area of what is now Zion National Park in southern Utah.

Clearing after September Gale, Maine Coast (ca. 1924)

 Seaweed Gatherers (1886)

The next four are paintings of Zion National Park. (See more here.)





Friday, January 18, 2013

Ferdinand Richardt

Ferdinand Richardt (full name Joachim Ferdinand Richardt, 1819-1895) was an American landscape painter born in Denmark.

 Independence Hall in Philadelphia (1858-63)

 Swedish Mill (1847)

 Countryside Along the Susquehanna (1858)

 Trenton High Falls (1858)

 View of Harper's Ferry (1850s)

 View of Mount Vernon (1858)

 View of Niagara Falls

 View of the Mississippi (1858)

View of the Upper Mississippi (1865)

Thursday, January 17, 2013

Charles Harold Davis

Charles Harold Davis (1856-1933) was a landscape painter. Wikipedia calls him an impressionist, but his works look more tonalist to me.

A Clearing

 A View to the River

 Afternoon Shade, Summer

 A Path along the River

 Clearing after a Storm (1897)

 August (ca. 1908)

 Outside the Village (1883)

 May Morning (ca. 1915)

 Twilight over Plum Island and the Parker River (1887)

Champ de Ble (1883)

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Paintings by Williams

 William Hahn: Return from the Bear Hunt (1882)

 William Edward Norton: Sailing Boats in the Mist

 William Henry Lippincott: Farm Interior - Breton Children Feeding Rabbits (1878)

 William Henry Burr: The Intelligence Office (1849)

 William de la Montagne Cary: The Travois (ca. 1874)

 William de la Montagne Cary: The Wigwam

 William Henry Holmes: Cliff Houses on the Rio Mancos, Colorado (1878)

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Orientalist Paintings

 Charles James Theriat: In the Shade, Biskra (1893)

 Charles James Theriat: Playing the Derbakeh, Biskra (1889)

 Henry Roderick Newman: The Temple Door at Abu Simbel (1900)

 Henry Roderick Newman: Daibutsu at Kamakura, Japan (1898)

 Louis Comfort Tiffany: Algerian Shops
[Yes, this is the same Tiffany who designed the lamps.]
[Though apparently most of the creative work was done by his female assistant, Clara Driscoll.]

 Louis Comfort Tiffany: Market Day Outside the Walls of Tangiers, Morocco (1873)

 Louis Comfort Tiffany: On the Way Between Old and New Cairo, Citadel Mosque of Mohammed Ali and Tombs of the Mamelukes (1872)

Monday, January 14, 2013

Winslow Homer, ctd

 Two Girls at the Beach, Tynemouth (1891)

 Under a Palm Tree (1885)

 Undertow (1886)

 Three Boys in a Dory with Lobster Pots (1872)

 Waiting

 Weaning the Calf (1875)

 Waiting for an Answer (1872)

Winter Coast (1890)