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)

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