Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Edwin Lord Weeks

Edwin Lord Weeks (1849-1903) was an American artist specializing in Orientalist painting. He was one of the few such painters to focus on India.

 A Court in The Alhambra in the Time of the Moors (1876)

 A Marketplace in Isfahan (1887)

 A Persian Cafe

 A Street Market Scene, India (1887)

 A Wedding Procession before a Palace in Rajasthan
[Rajasthan is a state in northwestern India]
 
 Along the Nile

 Along the Ghats, Mathura (1883)
[what is a ghat? find out here]

 Arrival of the Rajah at the Palace of Amber

 By the Well (1880)

Camels beside a Cistern (1880-81)

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