Monday, May 4, 2026

Charles Sims
(1873 - 1928)

Charles Henry Sims RA RWS was a British figurative painter known for his portraits and landscapes. He initially became renowned as a leading Edwardian painter, but following the death of his son in World War I, his work became increasingly idiosyncratic, surreal and controversial. In 1920, he was appointed Keeper, or head, of the Royal Academy Schools, a post he was eventually forced to resign in 1926. At the same time, he became estranged from his wife and children. Sims' final paintings, the Spiritual Ideas, were to some viewers his "most beautiful works," but to others highly disturbing. He committed suicide in 1928. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sims_(painter)

By summer seas
1904
Oil on canvas
90 x 70 cm
Museum of New Zealand - Te Papa Tongarewa
https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/38062?page=1&rtp=1&ros=1&asr=1&assoc=all&mb=c

Sunday, May 3, 2026

Caspar David Friedrich
(1774 - 1840)

Caspar David Friedrich was a German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation, whose often symbolic, and anti-classical work, conveys a subjective, emotional response to the natural world. Friedrich's paintings often set contemplative human figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees or Gothic ruins. Art historian Christopher John Murray described their presence, in diminished perspective, amid expansive landscapes, as reducing the figures to a scale that directs "the viewer's gaze towards their metaphysical dimension".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_David_Friedrich

Moonrise by the Sea or Moonrise over the Sea
1822
Oil on canvas
55 x 71 cm
Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin
https://recherche.smb.museum/detail/959550

Saturday, May 2, 2026

Antônio Parreiras
(1860 - 1937)

Antônio Diogo da Silva Parreiras was a Brazilian painter, designer, and illustrator. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antônio_Parreiras

A view of the beach, São Domingos, Niterói, RJ
1886
Oil on canvas
56 x 99 cm
Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Friday, May 1, 2026

Alfred Thompson Bricher 
(1837 - 1908)

Alfred Thompson Bricher was an American painter associated with White Mountain art and the Hudson River School. He studied with Albert Bierstadt, William Morris Hunt, and others. He attained a distinctive skill in making landscape studies from nature and after 1858 devoted himself to the art as a profession.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Thompson_Bricher

A Quiet Day near Manchester
1873
Oil on canvas
50.8 x 97.16 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
https://www.nga.gov/artworks/140908-quiet-day-near-manchester

Thursday, April 30, 2026

 Thomas Hart Benton
(1889 - 1975
 

Thomas Hart Benton was an American painter, muralist, and printmaker. Along with Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry, he was at the forefront of the Regionalist art movement. The fluid, sculpted figures in his paintings showed everyday people in scenes of life in the United States.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hart_Benton_(painter)

Spring Tryout
1943
Lithograph 
28 x 39.4 cm
MoMA
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/59595

Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Alfred Sisley
(1839 - 1899)

Alfred Sisley was a French-Born British Impressionist landscape painter who was born to British parents, but spent most of his life in France. He was the most consistent of the Impressionists in his dedication to painting landscape en plein air (i.e., outdoors). He deviated into figure painting only rarely and, unlike Renoir and Pissarro, he found that Impressionism fulfilled his artistic needs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Sisley

The Small Meadows in Spring, By
1881
Oil on canvas
54.3 x 73 cm
National Gallery, London
https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/alfred-sisley-the-small-meadows-in-spring

Tuesday, April 28, 2026

Erin Hanson
(b. 1981)
 
Erin Hanson is an American painter known for her "Open Impressionism style of work characterized by minimal brush strokes and the impasto application of paint."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erin_Hanson
 

"Apple Blooms"
2023
Oil on canvas
55.8 x 91 cm
Private collection
https://www.erinhanson.com/portfolio/apple-blooms


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