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Thomas Cole was worried. He had left Pennsylvania for New Hampshire's White Mountains in the summer of 1827 on the advice of his patron, Daniel Wadsworth. Once there, the English-born painter marveled ...
The New Britain Museum of American Art has added a landmark painting to its collection: Kaaterskill Clove (1858) by Harriet Cany Peale, which represents the museum’s first ...
Dutch still-life paintings omitted the ‘human cost of colonial warfare and slavery’ that underlay the bounty these canvases ...
The Art Institute of Chicago has two works on display by one of the world's great landscape painters, J.M.W. Turner, born 250 years ago.
I’m not a great fan of the paint brush either. But regarding your interview with the German painter Katharina Grosse (“Katharina Grosse’s stroke of genius? Swapping a paint brush for an ...
In fact, this emphasis on a softer, more natural look is built into the very history of the modern English garden. The English garden style as we now understand it emerged in the ...
The renowned English Romantic painter J.M.W. Turner is celebrated as “the painter of light” for the masterly ways he depicted sunlight in his landscapes and seascapes. Similarly, in the 1970s Louis ...
A previously unknown sketch by John Constable, one of the great English landscape masters, sold for £320,000 (around $415,000) at auction after being held in a private collection for the better ...
On William Butterfield, English landscape painting & ancient North Americans.
I like artists that love paint and like to use paint, can handle paint. I love English landscape painting, the world of John Constable. Again, he loves paint. While Hall understands keenly that ...
His precise, atmospheric views of London, painted in the 1740s and ’50s, helped shape English landscape painting, lured later artists such as Turner and Whistler to Venice to seek new ...