Friday, February 15, 2013

Arthur Parton

Arthur Parton (1842-1914) was an American tonalist landscape painter.

 A Stream Through the Meadow

 Berkshire Landscape (1872)

 Cows Watering at River's Edge (1882)

 Summer Afternoon

Pumpkins in a Field

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Miscellanea

 De Lancey Gill: Street in the Pueblo of Oraibi, Tusayan, Arizona (1888)

 De Lancey Gill: Street in the Pueblo of Zuni, New Mexico (1888)

 Albert Fitch Bellow: Blueberry Pickers (1864)

 Henry Pember Smith: Venetian Backwater

 John Lewis Krimmel: The Country Wedding (1820)

 Irving Wiles: Afternoon Tea on the Terrace (1889)

Louis Henry Charles Moeller: Sign Here (ca. 1893)

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Thomas Le Clear

Thomas Le Clear (1818-1882) was an American genre and portrait painter.

 Portrait of Ulysses Grant, 18th President of the United States (ca. 1880)

 Boys Fishing (1846)

 Interior With Portraits (1865)

Young America (ca. 1863)

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Winslow Homer - Woodcuts

The Boston Common (1858)

 The Fountain on Boston Common (1857)

 Under the Falls, Catskill Mountains (1872)

 The Straw Ride (1869)

 What Shall We Do Next?

 The Robin's Note (1870)

The Coolest Spot in New England - Summit of Mount Washington (1870)

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