George Inness
(1825 - 1894)
 

George Inness was an American landscape painter. Now recognized as one of the most influential American artists of the nineteenth century, Inness was influenced by the Hudson River School at the start of his career. He also studied the Old Masters, and artists of the Barbizon school during later trips to Europe. There he was introduced to the theology of Emanuel Swedenborg, which was significant for him; he expressed that spiritualism in the works of his maturity (1879–1894). 


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

A Winter Sky
1866
Oil on canvas
82 x 102 cm
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, United States
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1927.388

Anna Ancher
(1859 - 1935)
 

Anna Ancher was a Danish artist associated with the Skagen Painters, an artist colony on the northern point of Jylland, Denmark. She is considered to be one of Denmark's greatest visual artists.

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

 

Høstarbejdere (Harvesters)
1905
Oil on canvas
56.2 x 43.4 cm
Skagens Museum, Skagen, Denmark

David Hockney
(b. 1937)
 

David Hockney is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.

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

Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)
1972
Acrylic on canvas 
213 x 305 cm
Private collection
Sold at Christie’s, November 2018
https://www.christies.com/en/stories/david-hockney-portrait-of-an-artist-pool-with-two-figures-fc646a8d6dfb4ea98814460d351e485b

In November 2018, This painting sold for US$90.3 million, at that time the highest price ever paid at auction for a painting by a living artist. 

 Francesco Lojacono
(1838 - 1915)
 

Francesco Lojacono or Lo Jacono was an Italian painter, mainly of landscapes and seascapes, and mainly active in his native Palermo, Sicily. 

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

The Unexpected Arrival
1883
oil on panel 
119.5 x 239.5 cm. 
Quirinale Palace, Rome, Italy
https://palazzo.quirinale.it/palazzo_en.html
Because of this painting Lojacono became known as “The Sun Thief”

Frederick Judd Waugh
(1861 - 1940)
 

Frederick Judd Waugh was an American artist, primarily known as a marine artist. During World War I, he designed ship camouflage for the U.S. Navy, under the direction of Everett L. Warner. 

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

Amber, Jade, and Amethyst
Date unknown
Oil on canvas 
150 x 119.5 cm
Reading Public Museum, Reading, United States
https://www.readingpublicmuseum.org/

Arkhip Kuindzhi
(1841 - 1910)
 

Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi was a Russian landscape painter.

 

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

Red Sunset on the Dnipro
1905-1908
134.6  × 188 cm
Oil on canvas
The MET
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436833

Albert Edelfelt 
1859 - 1924)

Albert Gustaf Aristides Edelfelt was a Finnish painter noted for his naturalistic style and Realist approach to art. He lived in the Grand Duchy of Finland and made Finnish culture visible abroad, before Finland gained independence. He was considered the greatest Finnish artist of the second half of 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries, and one of the most prominent contributors to the Golden Age of Finnish Art.

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

Kaukola Ridge at Sunset
1890
Oil on canvas
116.5 × 83 cm
Ateneum art museum, Helsinki, Finland
https://www.kansallisgalleria.fi/en/object/482255

Jules Breton
(1827- 1906)
 

Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton was a 19th-century French naturalist painter. His paintings are heavily influenced by the French countryside and his absorption of traditional methods of painting helped make him one of the primary transmitters of the beauty and idyllic vision of rural existence.

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

The Tired Gleaner
1880
oil on fabric
94 x 63.8 cm 
The Cleveland Museum of Art
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1915.721

 <b>Caspar David Friedrich</b>
(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

Woman in front of Setting Sun
circa 1818
Oil on canvas
22 x 30 cm
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany

Knud Baade
(1808- 1879)
 

Knud Baade was a Norwegian painter, mostly of portraits and landscapes. He was particularly known for his moonlight paintings which are characterized by strong and dramatic contrasts between light and shadow.

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

Bird Mountain, Hestmandø
1844
Oil on canvas
80 x 115 cm
Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum, Tromsø, Norway

Aleksei Mikhailovich Gritsai
(1914 - 1998)
 

Aleksei Gritsai is a People's Artist of the USSR and is best known for his unique, incredible landscapes. Gritsai has pursued significant reforms in the art and culture of the mid-1950s in the Soviet Union and reflected these changes in his work. At some point of his career, the artist has rejected monumental compositions, carefully thought-out plots, totalitarian propaganda, formulas of Socialist Realism and false sentimental themes in favour of contemplation of the nature and comprehension of the world through poetic motives of the Russian landscape.

https://russianartgallery.org/inventory/aleksei_gritsaiis

April. The Sun Is Going Down
1973
Oil on canvas
79.5 x 49.7 cm.
The Institute of Russian Realist Art (IRRA), Moskva, Russia

 Eugène Boudin
(1824-1898)

Eugène Louis Boudin was one of the first French landscape painters to paint outdoors. Boudin was a marine painter, and expert in the rendering of all that goes upon the sea and along its shores. His pastels, summary and economic, garnered the splendid eulogy of Baudelaire; and Corot called him the "King of the skies".

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

Le Havre: The Outer Harbor at Sunset
1882
Oil on canvas
54.5 x 74.5 cm
Museum Barberini, Potsdam, Germany
https://sammlung.museum-barberini.de/en/MB-Bou-04_eugene-boudin-le-havre-the-outer-harbor-at-sunset

Albrecht Dürer 
(1831 - 1913)

Albrecht Dürer was a German painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance. Born in Nuremberg, Dürer established his reputation and influence across Europe in his twenties due to his high-quality woodcut prints. He was in contact with the major Italian artists of his time, including Raphael, Giovanni Bellini and Leonardo da Vinci, and from 1512 was patronized by Emperor Maximilian I. 

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

Landscape with a Woodland Pool
1497
water and bodycolour on paper
30 × 22 cm.
The British Museum, London
https://www.bmimages.com/preview.asp?image=00125889001

 

Dürer was the first artist to recognize the expressive potential of watercolour. Indeed, his work as a landscape artist in the medium led to its adoption by other artists.
 

Fujishima Takeji
1867–1943)
 

Fujishima Takeji was a Japanese painter, noted for his work in developing Romanticism and impressionism within the yōga (Western-style) art movement in late 19th- and early 20th-century Japanese painting. In his later years, he was influenced by the Art Nouveau movement.

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

Sunrise over the Eastern Sea
1932
Oil on canvas
90 x 65 cm
Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation, Chuo City, Japan
https://www.artizon.museum/en/collection/art/22729

Frederic Edwin Church
(1826 - 1900) 

Frederic Edwin Church  was an American landscape painter born in Hartford, Connecticut. He was a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters, best known for painting large landscapes, often depicting mountains, waterfalls, and sunsets. Church's paintings put an emphasis on realistic detail, dramatic light, and panoramic views. He debuted some of his major works in single-painting exhibitions to a paying and often enthralled audience in New York City. In his prime, he was one of the most famous painters in the United States.

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

Cotopaxi
1862
Oil on canvas
121.9 × 215.9 cm
Detroit Institute of Arts
https://dia.org/collection/cotopaxi-37907

 The painting depicts Cotopaxi, an active volcano that is also the second highest peak in modern-day Ecuador, spewing smoke and ash across a colorful sunrise. The work was commissioned by well-known philanthropist and collector James Lenox and was first exhibited in New York City in 1863.

 Henry Ossawa Tanner
(1859 - 1937)

Henry Ossawa Tanner was an American artist who spent much of his career in France. He became the first African-American painter to gain international acclaim. Tanner moved to Paris, France, in 1891 to study at the Académie Julian and gained acclaim in French artistic circles. In 1923, the French government elected Tanner chevalier of the Legion of Honor.

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

Sand Dunes at Sunset, Atlantic City
c. 1885
Oil on canvas
98.5 x 138 cm 
The White House, Washington, United States
https://www.whitehousehistory.org/photos/sand-dunes-at-sunset-atlantic-city-by-henry-ossawa-tanner

    

Nicholas Roerich
(1874- 1947)
 

Nikolai Konstantinovich Rerikh was a Russian painter, writer, archaeologist, theosophist, philosopher, and public figure. In his youth he was influenced by Russian Symbolism, a movement in Russian society centered on the spiritual. He was interested in hypnosis and other spiritual practices and his paintings are said to have hypnotic expression.

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

Monhegan. Maine
1922
Tempera on canvas
76 x 50 cm
International Centre of the Roerichs, Moscow
https://icr.su/rus/katalog/10.php?i=2289

 Josip Generalić
(1936 - 2004)

Josip Generalić ( a Croatian painter. His works can be found at the Croatian Museum of Naïve Art in Zagreb.

https://www.generalic.com/

sun of peace
1987
Oil paint on glass
94.2 x 130.9 cm
Galerija Josip Generalić, Koprivnica, Croatia

Today an older painting by a Danish artist, that is very similar to yesterday’s. 
It’s not sure Carcano ever saw this painting but both men were of the same age and it is know that Philipsen visited Italy.
 

Theodor Philipsen
(1840 - 1920)
 

Theodor Esbern Philipsen was a Danish painter of Jewish ancestry; known for landscapes and animal portraits. He also did small figures in wax and clay. 

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

Long Shadows. Cattle on the Island of Saltholm
About 1890
Oil on canvas
81.5 x 61  cm
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KMS3334/

 Filippo Carcano
(1840 - 1914)
 

Filippo Carcano was an Italian painter born in Milan, Italy. A pupil of Francesco Hayez at the Brera Academy in Milan as from 1855, he won the Canonica Prize with a work on a historical subject in 1862, while experimenting in the same period with painting from life. Carcano became friends with Francesco Filippini and Eugenio Gignous, with whom he would sometimes go to paint in Gignese. His interest in themes connected with reality is confirmed in subsequent works presenting scenes of an immediacy that reflects the contemporary developments in the field of the photography. One example is Break Time during Work on the Exhibition of 1881 (1887, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Milan), presented at the Esposizione Nazionale di Belle Arti di Milano in 1881.

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

The Flock
1906
193 x 136,5 cm
Oil on canvas
Fondazione Cariplo, Milano, Italy
www.artgate-cariplo.it

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

 

The Woods of Ashokan
1886
Oil on canvas
144.8 x 102.9 cm
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, United States
https://chrysler.emuseum.com/objects/22730/woods-of-ashokan?idx=0

 Kunimaru Utagawa (国丸) Also signed Bunji (文治)
 (1793–1829)
 

Kunimaru Utagawa was an ukiyo-e artist in the mid-Edo period. His real surname was Maeda, commonly known as Bunji. He was also known as Iseya Ihachi. He used the surname of an artist of Utagawa, and was known by the names Ichiensai, Gosairou, Keiuntei, Saikarou, and Hanchoan. His original artist name was Bunji. He was born in Edo, and his father ran a pawnshop in Honmachi. Details about him are unknown, except that he was a pupil of the first Utagawa Toyokuni and Tagawa Hourou. 

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/歌川国丸
 

According to the encyclopedia of Ukiyo-e in the late 1980s, the Utagawa school had 151 students, 147 workers from Kuniyoshi, and 173 people from Kuniyoshi. Students who studied at the Utagawa school would gain the chance to receive the Utagawa name if their skill is approved. The master would give out the Utagawa surname, and the use of “Toshinomaru”, which is Utagawa's own family crest that is only found within the Utagawa family to the best students. 
The “Yearball”, rounded design, was the symbol of the Utagawa family. This symbol was easy to recognize, so the people who wore the Utagawa crested kimono did not need the ticket to the Edo theater at that time. The “Tatsunori no Maru” crest of the same shape with an added line, was used only by the master of Muneya and his workers. The next master was decided at a convention of the very large Utagawa Ichimon family. The master was mainly decided by personality and their Ukiyo-e skills. However, the higher the rank, the better chance that they would be chosen. There were gifts such as crests from the shogunate in the house using this family crest. Utagawa Kazumon did not only pay attention to the aesthetic of the picture, but also tried to maintain a close relationship with the masses, calling himself “painter”.

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

Bamboo and rising sun (surimono)
1812-1834
Color woodblock print; shikishiban, surimono
22 x 19.7 cm
Among others:
Art Institute of Chicago
https://www.artic.edu/artworks/86741/bamboo-and-rising-sun
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/object/Bamboo-and-rising-sun--a2e823943670b02a2a4c8fa036909bcd

 

A surimono is a luxurious print on which an image is combined with one or more poems. When printing a surimono, thicker paper, blind printing and metal pigments, such as copper and silver powder, were often used. The prints were often commissioned by poets and given as an exclusive gift to friends and relations.

Wassily Kandinsky
(1866 - 1944)

 

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstraction in western art. Born in Moscow, he spent his childhood in Odessa, where he graduated from Odessa Art School. He enrolled at the University of Moscow, studying law and economics. Successful in his profession, he was offered a professorship (chair of Roman Law) at the University of Dorpat (today Tartu, Estonia). Kandinsky began painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30. 

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

Développement
1926
Oil paint on card board 
32 x 40
Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris 

Amos Nattini
(1892 - 1985)
 

Amos Nattini was an Italian painter, famous for having illustrated the Divine Comedy.

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_Nattini

Purgatorio Canto XIX
1939
Lithography
81.9 x 65.6 cm
Collezione Fondazione Cariparma, Parma, Italy

 

It was to celebrate the 6th anniversary of Dante's death that in 1920 the project for a monumental edition of Dante's work came to life, financed by the lawyer Rino Valdamieri, together with other private investors. Amos Nattini executed the edition: he worked on the illustrations, the typographic aspects, the creation of the characters and the technical aspects. He therefore made 100 watercolors, one for each canticle, which were subsequently lithographed. 1000 copies were printed in hand-made rag paper 140x100 cm with leather cover of white calf. It took 20 years and 7 months to complete the artwork.

Maurits Frederik Hendrik de Haas
(1832 - 1895)

 

Maurits Frederik Hendrik de Haas was a Dutch-American marine painter. Born in Rotterdam, Netherlands, he studied art at the Rotterdam Academy and at The Hague, under Johannes Bosboom and Louis Meyer, and in 1851-1852 in London, following the English watercolourists of the day. In 1857 he received an artist's commission in the Dutch Navy, but in 1859, under the patronage of August Belmont, who had recently been minister of the United States at The Hague, he resigned and moved to New York City.

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

 

Coastal Scene
19th century
Oil on panel
25.4 x 38.1 cm
The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, United States
https://art.thewalters.org/object/37.2743/

Georgia O'Keeffe
(1887– 1986)
 

Georgia Totto O'Keeffe was an American modernist painter and draftswoman whose career spanned seven decades and whose work remained largely independent of major art movements. Called the "Mother of American modernism", O'Keeffe gained international recognition for her paintings of natural forms, particularly flowers and desert-inspired landscapes, which were often drawn from and related to places and environments in which she lived.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_O'Keeffe

Red Hills, Lake George
1927
Oil on canvas
71.75 x 84.77 cm
The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
https://www.phillipscollection.org/collection/red-hills-lake-george

<i>With its brilliant color, dramatic luminosity, and simplified forms, Red Hills, Lake George typifies the distinctive approach to landscape painting Georgia O’Keeffe, as well as other artists that were part of Alfred Stieglitz’s circle. Within her oeuvre, this is a transitional work, presaging the stark drama of her later New Mexico landscapes, while also paying homage to her earlier experiences out west and at Lake George.</i>

Tarsila do Amaral
(1886 - 1973)
 

Tarsila de Aguiar do Amara was a Brazilian painter, draftswoman, and translator. She is considered one of the leading Latin American modernist artists, and is regarded as the painter who best achieved Brazilian aspirations for nationalistic expression in a modern style. As a member of the Grupo dos Cinco, Tarsila is also considered a major influence in the modern art movement in Brazil, alongside Anita Malfatti, Menotti Del Picchia, Mário de Andrade, and Oswald de Andrade. She was instrumental in the formation of the aesthetic movement, Antropofagia (1928–1929); in fact, Tarsila was the one with her celebrated painting, Abaporu, who inspired Oswald de Andrade's famous Manifesto Antropófago.

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

Abaporu
1928
Oil on canvas
85 x 72.8 cm
Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires (MALBA)
https://coleccion.malba.org.ar/abaporu/

Abaporu (from Tupi language "abapor’u", abá (man) + poro (people) + ’u (to eat), lit. 'the man that eats people') is an oil painting on canvas by Brazilian painter Tarsila do Amaral. It was painted as a birthday gift to writer Oswald de Andrade, who was her husband at the time. 

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

 <b>Vincent Van Gogh</b>
(1853 - 1890)

 

Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade, he created approximately 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life. His oeuvre includes landscapes, still lifes, portraits, and self-portraits, most of which are characterised by bold colours and dramatic brushwork that contributed to the rise of expressionism in modern art. Van Gogh's work was only beginning to gain critical attention before he died from a self-inflicted gunshot at age 37. During his lifetime, only one of Van Gogh's paintings, The Red Vineyard, was sold. 

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

Wheat Field with Reaper and Sun
1889
Oil on canvas
73 × 92 cm
Kröller-Müller Museum

 

Reaper (French: faucheur, lit. 'reaper'), Wheat Field with Reaper, or Wheat Field with Reaper and Sun is the title given to each of a series of three oil-on-canvas paintings by Vincent van Gogh of a man reaping a wheat field under a bright early-morning sun. To the artist, the reaper represented death and "humanity would be the wheat being reaped". However, Van Gogh did not consider the work to be sad but "almost smiling" and taking "place in broad daylight with a sun that floods everything with a light of fine gold".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaper_(Van_Gogh_series)

 

 The Reaper in Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

The Reaper in Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany

Karl Friedrich Schinkel
(1781 - 1841)

Karl Friedrich Schinkel  was a Prussian architect, city planner and painter who also designed furniture and stage sets. Schinkel was one of the most prominent architects of Germany and designed both Neoclassical and neo-Gothic buildings. His most famous buildings are found in and around Berlin. Schinkel's Bauakademie is considered one of the forerunners of modern architecture. 

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

Morning
1813
Oil on canvas
102 x 76 cm
Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
https://recherche.smb.museum/detail/968190

Joaquín Sorolla
(1863 - 1923)

 

Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida was a Spanish painter. Sorolla excelled in the painting of portraits, landscapes, and monumental works of social and historical themes. His most typical works are characterized by a dexterous representation of the people and landscape under the bright sunlight of Spain and sunlit water.

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

Fisherwomen with her son
1908
Oil on canvas
90.5 x 128.5 cm
Sorolla Museum, Madrid, Spain
https://ceres.mcu.es/pages/Main?idt=5706&inventary=00814&table=FMUS&museum=MSM