Friday, February 8, 2013

Alexander Helwig Wyant

Alexander Helwig Wyant (1836-1892) was a landscape painter. Initially oriented towards the Hudson River School, in later years he moved towards tonalism.

 A Summer Haunt (ca. 1881)

 Landscape with Pond and Cabin (1884)

 Adirondack Lake (1868-70)

 Split Rail Fence (1860-62)

 The Old Schoolhouse

 Tennessee (1866)

 Derbyshire Landscape (1871)

Rocky Ledge, Adirondacks (1884)

Thursday, February 7, 2013

Miscellanea

 Theodor Groll: Washington Street, Indianapolis, at Dusk (1892-95)

 Thomas Sully: Cinderella at the Kitchen Fire (1843)

 Thompkins Matteson: Hop Picking (1862)

 Walter MacEwen: The Absent One on All Souls' Day (1889)

 Dewitt Clinton Boutelle: Summer in the Country (1857)

Peter Rothermel: Charge of the Pennsylvania Reserves at Plum Run, Battle of Gettysburg

Thomas Hicks: The Musicale, Barber Shop, Trenton Falls, New York (1866)
[about this painting, which is very interesting for depicting an integrated band]

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Edward Gay

Edward Gay (1837-1928) was an Irish-born American landscape painter. His family came to America during the Potato Famine of 1848.

 The Meadow, Sweet with Hay, Long Island, New York (1880s)

 Hillside (1908)

 The River, Sound Beach, Connecticut

 Broad Acres (1887)

 View of Long Island Sound from Glen Island, New Rochelle

View of Long Island Sound near Pelham Manor

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Hudson River School

 Alfred Thompson Bricher: Two Ladies in a Rowboat

 Sanford Robinson Gifford: Mount Rainier, Bay of Tacoma, Puget Sound (1875)

 Sanford Robinson Gifford: Isola Bella in Lago Maggiore (1871)

 Sanford Robinson Gifford: Sunset in the Shawangunk Mountains (1854)

 Thomas Worthington Whittredge: Landscape Near Fort Collins, Colorado (1870)

Thomas Worthington Whittredge: Woods of Ashokan (1868)

 William H. Titcomb: White Mountain Scenery

 William McDougal Hart: Sunset in the Valley (1870)

William Rickarby Miller: Bay of New York from the Heights of Hoboken (1860)

Monday, February 4, 2013

Seymour Joseph Guy, ctd

 The Bitter Bit (1877)

 Summer Issue (1861)

 See-Saw, Margery Daw (1884)

 The Little Orange Girl

 The Pick of the Orchard (ca. 1870)

 Young Girl Reading (1877)

The Contest for the Bouquet: The Family of Robert Gordon in Their New York Dining Room (1866)

Friday, February 1, 2013

Miscellanea

 Alanson Fisher: Portrait of Harriet Beecher Stowe (1853)

 Gilbert Gaul: Van Buren, Tennessee (1881)

 George Gunther Hartwick: Yosemite Gorge

 Percy Moran: Washington Entering New York

 John Elliott Tullidge: Minnie Lake (1887)

 Peter Rothermel: The Republican Court in the Days of Lincoln (1867)

Richard Caton Woodville: The Sailor's Wedding (1852)

Thursday, January 31, 2013

Henry Ward Ranger

Henry Ward Ranger (1858-1916) was a landscape artist in the Tonalist school.

 Bradbury's Mill Pond (1903)

 Connecticut Woods (1899)

 High Bridge, New York (1905)

 Landscape

 Oak Tree (1895)

 Spring Woods

 The Woodcutters

 The Cornfield

Long Point Marsh (1910)