Sunday, October 30, 2022

FREDERICK 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


Old Indian Trail to the Sea
1906
Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 55.9 x 61 cm
Private Collection
Sold by Bonhams  24 May 2011
https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/19156/lot/1020/
Jean-François Millet
(1814 - 1875)
 
Jean-François Millet (French: [milɛ]; 4 October 1814 – 20 January 1875) was a French artist and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. Millet is noted for his paintings of peasant farmers and can be categorized as part of the Realism art movement. Toward the end of his career, he became increasingly interested in painting pure landscapes. He is known best for his oil paintings but is also noted for his pastels, conte crayon drawings, and etchings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-François_Millet


Haystacks: Autumn
1874
Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 85 cm x 110 cm
The MET
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437097

Saturday, October 29, 2022

 John Frederick Kensett
(1816 - 1872)
 
John Frederick Kensett was an American landscape painter and engraver born in Cheshire, Connecticut. A member of the second generation of the Hudson River School of artists, Kensett's signature works are landscape paintings of New England and New York State, whose clear light and serene surfaces celebrate transcendental qualities of nature, and are associated with Luminism. Kensett's early work owed much to the influence of Thomas Cole, but was from the outset distinguished by a preference for cooler colors and an interest in less dramatic topography, favoring restraint in both palette and composition.[1] The work of Kensett's maturity features tranquil scenery depicted with a spare geometry, culminating in series of paintings in which coastal promontories are balanced against glass-smooth water.[2] He was a founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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

Lake George
ca. 1860
Oil on canvas.
55.8 x 86.4 cm
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
https://www.museothyssen.org/en/collection/artists/kensett-john-frederick/lake-george

 

Friday, October 28, 2022

Adrian Scott Stokes
(1854 - 1935)

Charles Adrian Scott Stokes was an English landscape painter. Born in Southport, Lancashire, he became a cotton broker in Liverpool, where his artistic talent was noticed by John Herbert RA, who advised him to submit his drawings to the Royal Academy. He entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1872 and exhibited at the Academy from 1876.

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

Autumn in the Mountains
1903
Oil on canvas
80 x 106 cm
Tate, London
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/adrian-stokes-527

Thursday, October 27, 2022

Edward Atkinson Hornel
(1864 - 1933)

Edward Atkinson Hornel  was a Scottish painter of landscapes, flowers, and foliage, with children. He was a cousin of James Hornell. His contemporaries in the Glasgow Boys called him Ned Hornel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Atkinson_Hornel



Autumn
1904
116 x 102 cm
Tate, London
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/hornel-autumn-n04401

Wednesday, October 26, 2022

Giuseppe Ajmone
(1923 - 2005)

Giuseppe Ajmone was a modern Italian painter.  Ajmone was born in Carpignano Sesia, and moved to Milan to study at the Brera Academy in 1941, under Achille Funi and Carlo Carrà. In 1946, he signed on to a Manifesto del Realismo under the pseudonym of Oltre Guernica. He participated at an exhibition at the Galleria Bergamini of Milan and received an award at the First National Exhibition of Painting at Bellagio. In 1950, he participated at the 25th International exhibition at the Biennale of Venice. In 1951, he was awarded the Premio Senatore Borletti for young Italian painters.

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




Autumn
1959
Oil on canvas
99,5 x 65 cm
Tate
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/ajmone-autumn-t00379

Tuesday, October 25, 2022

 John Atkinson Grimshaw
(1836 - 1893)

 John Atkinson Grimshaw (6 September 1836 – 13 October 1893) was an English Victorian-era artist best known for his nocturnal scenes of urban landscapes. He was called a "remarkable and imaginative painter" by the critic and historian Christopher Wood in Victorian Painting (1999).

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



Autumn - 'Dame Autumn hath a mournful face' - Old Ballad
1871
Oil on canvas
Private collection
(Sold by Christie’s 9 June 2004: https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-4295754)

Monday, October 24, 2022

 Joos de Momper
(1564 - 1635)
 

Joos de Momper the Younger or Joost de Momper the Younger was a Flemish landscape painter active in Antwerp between the late 16th century and the early 17th century. Brueghel's influence is clearly evident in many of de Momper's paintings. His work is situated at the transition from late 16th-century Mannerism to the greater realism in landscape painting that developed in the early 17th century. He achieved considerable success during his lifetime.

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

Autumn (from The four seasons)
Circa 1612-1615
Oil on panel
54,8 x 96,7 cm
3landesmuseen-braunschweig.de/herzog-anton-ulrich-museum
https://3landesmuseen-braunschweig.de/herzog-anton-ulrich-museum/ausstellungen/dauerausstellungen/gemaeldegaleri

Sunday, October 23, 2022

 Olga Wisinger-Florian
(1844 - 1926)
 
Olga Wisinger-Florian was an Austrian impressionist painter, mainly of landscapes and flower still life. She was a representative of the Austrian "Stimmungsimpressionismus [de]" (Mood Impressionism), a loose group of Austrian impressionist painters that was considered avant-garde in the 1870s and 1880s. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_Wisinger-Florian




Fallendes Laub (Falling Leaves)
1899
Oil on canvas
92,7 x 127,9 cm
Österreichische Galerie Belvedere
https://sammlung.belvedere.at/objects/6069/

Saturday, October 22, 2022

 Walter Moras
(1856 - 1925)
 
Walter Moras (Jan. 20, 1856 - March 6, 1925) was a German landscape painter who specialized to some extent in winter scenes. Moras was significantly influenced by the marine and landscape painter Hermann Eschke (1823-1900). In Berlin, where Moras was born, he gained his artistic training in Eschke's studio. In 1876, the young Moras staged his first exhibition, at the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin. Thereafter, Moras's works were continually shown, in small numbers, at major Berlin art exhibits. Moras also participated in exhibits in Bremen, Oldenburg and Munich.

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



Herbstliche Allee (Autumnal Lane)
Unknown date
Oil on canvas
80 x 120 cm
Private collection


Friday, October 21, 2022

Ivan Shiskin
(1775 - 1851)

Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin (Russian: Ива́н Ива́нович Ши́шкин; 25 January 1832 – 20 March 1898) was a Russian landscape painter closely associated with the Peredvizhniki movement.

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




Autumn on Krestovsky Island
1892
Oil on canvas
110 x 84,5 cm
Private Collection

Thursday, October 20, 2022

Ilya Ostroukhov
(1858- 1929)
 
Ilya Semyonovich Ostroukhov was a Russian landscape painter and art collector; associated with the Peredvizhniki. They were a group of Russian realist artists who formed an artists' cooperative in protest of academic restrictions; it evolved into the Society for Travelling Art Exhibitions in 1870

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



Golden autumn
1887
Oil on canvas
48,2 x 66,3
State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
https://www.tretyakovgallery.ru/about/mission/

Wednesday, October 19, 2022

 Jasper Francis Cropsey
(1823 - 1900)

Jasper Francis Cropsey was an important American landscape artist of the Hudson River School.
Trained as an architect, he set up his own office in 1843. Cropsey studied watercolor and life drawing at the National Academy of Design under the instruction of Edward Maury and first exhibited there in 1844. A year later he was elected an associate member and turned exclusively to landscape painting; shortly after he was featured in an exhibition entitled "Italian Compositions".


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

Mounts Adam and Eve
1872
Oil on canvas
47 x 67 cm
Reynolda House Museum of American Art Winston-Salem,
https://reynoldahouse.emuseum.com/objects/50/mounts-adam-and-eve

Tuesday, October 18, 2022

Birge Harrison
(1854 -1929)
 
Lovell Birge Harrison was an American genre and landscape painter, teacher, and writer. He was a prominent practitioner and advocate of Tonalism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Birge_Harrison

November
1881
Oil on canvas
132 x 248 cm
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes


Monday, October 17, 2022

Thomas Cole
(1801 - 1848)
 

Thomas Cole was an English-American painter known for his landscape and history paintings. He is regarded as the founder of the Hudson River School, an American art movement that flourished in the mid-19th century. Cole's work is known for its romantic portrayal of the American wilderness.

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

The Hunter's Return
1845
Oil on canvas
101 x 152 cm
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
https://www.cartermuseum.org/collection/hunters-return-1983156

Sunday, October 16, 2022

 Camille Pissarro
(1830 - 1903)
 
Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas (now in the US Virgin Islands, but then in the Danish West Indies). His importance resides in his contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. Pissarro studied from great forerunners, including Gustave Courbet and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. He later studied and worked alongside Georges Seurat and Paul Signac when he took on the Neo-Impressionist style at the age of 54.

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



The Woods at Marly
1871
Oil on canvas
45 x 55 cm
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
https://www.museothyssen.org/en/collection/artists/pissarro-camille/woods-marly

Saturday, October 15, 2022

 Claude Monet
(1840 - 1926)
Oscar-Claude Monet  was a French painter and founder of impressionist painting 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 before nature, especially as applied to plein air (outdoor) landscape painting. The term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of his painting Impression, soleil levant, exhibited in the 1874 ("exhibition of rejects") initiated by Monet and his associates as an alternative to the Salon.

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




Autumn Effect at Argenteuil
1873
Oil on canvas
74.5 x 55 cm.
The Courtauld Gallery, London
https://courtauld.ac.uk/highlights/autumn-effect-at-argenteuil/

Friday, October 14, 2022

 Thomas Moran
(1837 - 1926)
 
Thomas Moran was an American painter and printmaker of the Hudson River School in New York whose work often featured the Rocky Mountains. Moran and his family, wife Mary Nimmo Moran and daughter Ruth took residence in New York where he obtained work as an artist. He was a younger brother of the noted marine artist Edward Moran, with whom he shared a studio. A talented illustrator and exquisite colorist, Thomas Moran was hired as an illustrator at Scribner's Monthly. During the late 1860s, he was appointed the chief illustrator for the magazine, a position that helped him launch his career as one of the premier painters of the American landscape, in particular, the American West.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Moran
 

Autumn Afternoon, the Wissahickon
1864
Oil on canvas
76,8 x 114,9 cm
Terra Foundation for American Art
https://conversations.terraamericanart.org/artworks/autumn-afternoon-the-wissahickon/


Thursday, October 13, 2022

John Singer Sargent
(1856 - 1925)
 
John Singer Sargent was an American expatriate artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" for his evocations of Edwardian-era luxury. He created roughly 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000 watercolors, as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings. His oeuvre documents worldwide travel, from Venice to the Tyrol, Corfu, Spain, the Middle East, Montana, Maine, and Florida. 

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



Autumn leaves
1913
Oil on canvas
56 x 71 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia.
https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/work/4336/

Wednesday, October 12, 2022

 Winslow Homer
(1836 - 1910) 
 
Winslow Homer was an American landscape painter and illustrator, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters in 19th-century America and a preeminent figure in American art.

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



The Initials
1864
Oil on canvas
Private collection

Tuesday, October 11, 2022

Heinrich Böhmer
(1852 - 1930)

Heinrich Böhmer was a German landscape painter, born and lived in Düsseldorf

No Wiki page (yet)

Kleine Waldlichtung mit Rehwild (Forest clearing with roe deer)
Circa 1930
Oil on canvas
99,5 x 145 cm
Private collection

Monday, October 10, 2022

 Worthington Whittredge
(1820- 1910)
 
Thomas Worthington Whittredge was an American artist of the Hudson River School. Whittredge was a highly regarded artist of his time, and was friends with several leading Hudson River School artists including Albert Bierstadt and Sanford Robinson Gifford. He traveled widely and excelled at landscape painting, many examples of which are now in major museums. He served as president of the National Academy of Design from 1874 to 1875 and was a member of the selection committees for the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition and the 1878 Paris Exposition, both important venues for artists of the day.

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



Autumn on the Delaware
Circa 1875
Oil on canvas
71 x 54 cm
Private collection. Sold by Christie’s 18 May 2011 for USD 302,500
https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5436880

Sunday, October 9, 2022

William Trost Richards
(1833 - 1905)
 
William Trost Richards was an American landscape artist. He was associated with both the Hudson River School and the American Pre-Raphaelite movement.
Richards rejected the romanticized and stylized approach of other Hudson River painters and instead insisted on meticulous factual renderings. His views of the White Mountains are almost photographic in their realism. In later years, Richards painted almost exclusively marine watercolors.


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



Indian summer
1875
Oil on canvas
61 x 50 cm
The MET
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/11894

Saturday, October 8, 2022

Jacob van Ruisdael
(1629 - 1682)
 
Jacob Isaackszoon van Ruisdael was a Dutch painter, draughtsman, and etcher. He is generally considered the pre-eminent landscape painter of the Dutch Golden Age, a period of great wealth and cultural achievement when Dutch painting became highly popular.

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


Woodland Vistas
1660s
Oil on canvas
67 x 53,7 cm
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
https://collections.mfa.org/objects/33494

Friday, October 7, 2022

Giuseppe Arcimboldo
(1526 - 1593)

Giuseppe Arcimboldo was an Italian painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of objects such as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish and books.

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



Autumn (part of the four seasons)
1573
Oil on canvas
76 x 64 cm
The Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010065017


Thursday, October 6, 2022

James Tissot
(1836- 1902)
 
Jacques Joseph Tissot  anglicized as James Tissot, was a French painter and illustrator. He was a successful painter of fashionable, modern scenes and society life in Paris before moving to London in 1871. A friend and mentor of Edgar Degas, Tissot also painted scenes and figures from the Bible.

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



October
1877
Oil on canvas
216 × 108.7 cm
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
https://www.mbam.qc.ca/en/works/4577/

Wednesday, October 5, 2022

Julius Sergius von Klever
(1850- 1913

Julius Sergius von Klever was a Russian painter best known for his highly mystical, sublime and Romantic landscape paintings.  After completing his primary education, he was enrolled at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg where, at his father's insistence, he studied architecture. After a short time, however, he began to take landscape painting classes; first with Sokrat Vorobiev, then Mikhail Clodt.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_von_Klever



Quiet autumn day in a Russian birch forest
1883
Oil on canvas
93 x 135 cm
Private collection
Sold by Bruun Rasmussen (Copenhagen), Lot 353, in 2011

Tuesday, October 4, 2022

 Yes, we had a whole summer of Van Gogh, but the next painting is from the year before he went to France.
 
Vincent van Gogh
(1853 - 1890)
 
Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who posthumously became one of the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of which date from the last two years of his life. They include landscapes, still lifes, portraits, and self-portraits characterised by bold colours and dramatic, impulsive and expressive brushwork that contributed to the foundations of modern art. He was not commercially successful and, struggling with severe depression and poverty, committed suicide at the age of 37.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh



Autumn landscape with four trees
1885
Oil on canvas
64 x 89 cm
Kröller-Müller Museum
https://krollermuller.nl/en/vincent-van-gogh-autumn-landscape

Monday, October 3, 2022

 Albert Bierstadt
(1830 - 1902)
 
Albert Bierstadt was a German-American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West. He joined several journeys of the Westward Expansion to paint the scenes. He was not the first artist to record the sites, but he was the foremost painter of them for the remainder of the 19th century.
Bierstadt was born in Prussia, but his family moved to the United States when he was one year old. He returned to study painting for several years in Düsseldorf. He became part of the second generation of the Hudson River School in New York, an informal group of like-minded painters who started painting along the Hudson River. Their style was based on carefully detailed paintings with romantic, almost glowing lighting, sometimes called luminism. Bierstadt was an important interpreter of the western landscape, and he is also grouped with the Rocky Mountain School.

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


Autumn woods, Oneida County, State of New York.
1886
Oil on linen
137 x 213 cm
New-York Historical Society
https://digitalcollections.nyhistory.org/islandora/object/nyhs%3A1824

Sunday, October 2, 2022

Peder Mørk Mønsted
(1859- 1941)
 
Peder Mørk Mønsted was a Danish realist painter. He is best known for his landscape paintings in a realistic style. His favorite motifs include snowy winter landscapes, still water and forests.

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


Charlottendun skov
1908
Oil on canvas
69,8 x 99,10 cm
Private collection
Sale: Sotheby's, New York, April 24, 2003, lot 85

Saturday, October 1, 2022

Vasily Polenov
(1844- 1927)
 
Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov was a Russian landscape painter associated with the Peredvizhniki movement of realist artists. His contemporaries would call him the “Knight of Beauty” as he embodied both European and Russian traditions of painting. His vision of life was summarized as following: “Art should promote happiness and joy”. As a painter and a humanist, he would truly believe in the civilizing mission of Art, Culture and Education. 

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


Spaziergängerin auf einem Waldweg (Woman Walking in a Forest Park)
1883
Oil on canvas
114,5 x 67,3 cm
Private collection
Sold at Koller Auktionen in Zürich, on March 27, 2009

Ross Bleckner (b.1949)   Ross Bleckner is an American artist. He currently lives and works in New York City. His artistic focus is on painti...