Wednesday, May 6, 2026

Claude Monet
(1840 –1926)

Oscar-Claude Monet was a French painter and founder of Impressionism who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During his long career, he was the most consistent and prolific practitioner of Impressionism's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions of nature, especially as applied to plein air (outdoor) landscape painting. The term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant), which was exhibited in 1874 at the First Impressionist Exhibition, initiated by Monet and a number of like-minded artists as an alternative to the Salon. 

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

The Cliff Walk at Pourville
1882
oil on canvas
66.5 × 82.3 cm
Art Institute of Chicago
https://www.artic.edu/artworks/14620/cliff-walk-at-pourville

Tuesday, May 5, 2026

Childe Hassam
(1859 -1935)

Frederick Childe Hassam  was an American Impressionist painter, noted for his urban and coastal scenes. Along with Mary Cassatt and John Henry Twachtman, Hassam was instrumental in promulgating Impressionism to American collectors, dealers, and museums. He produced over 3,000 paintings, oils, watercolors, etchings, and lithographs over the course of his career, and was an influential American artist of the early 20th century. 

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

The South Ledges, Appledore
1913
Oil on canvas
87.0 x 91.6 cm
SAAM, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/south-ledges-appledore-10086

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

Claude Monet (1840 –1926) Oscar-Claude Monet was a French painter and founder of Impressionism who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, ...