Bold Power in Subtle Colors
Artist Philip Koch looks at color through the work of Hudson River School luminist painter Sanford Gifford. Koch states: "There's a slippery quality to color... sometimes you get it, other times it...
View ArticleAustralian & Danish 19th c. Landscape
Altoon Sultan calls well-deserved attention to an alternative cannon of 19th Australian and Danish landscape painters. She writes: "Luminism was defined as a peculiarly American painting style. But...
View ArticleGeorge Inness' Italian Sojourn
Bob Duggan reveals the story behind the exhibition George Inness in Italy at the Philadelphia Museum of Art through May 15, 2011. The ten painting exhibition centers around Inness' painting Twilight on...
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Frederic Edwin Church: Painting as Cinema
Frederic Edwin Church, Heart of the Andes, 1859, oil on canvas, 66 1.8 x 119 1/4 inches (collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art) Charley Parker posts about the original cinematic presentation of...
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John Frederick Kensett, Minimalist
John Frederick Kensett, Sunset on the Sea, 1872, oil on canvas, 28 x 41 1/8 inches (Metropolitan Museum of Art)) Altoon Sultan blogs about the work of Luminist painter John Frederick Kensett whose...
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George Inness' Constant Cohesion
George Inness, Near The Village, October, oil on canvas, 30 x 45 inches, collection of the Cincinnati Art Museum Kevin Muente reflects on George Inness' painting Near The Village, October in the...
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Thomas Cole & The Voyage of Life
Thomas Cole, The Voyage of Life: Youth, 1840, oil on canvas, 52 1/2 x 78 1/2 inches (Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum of Art) Jonathan Kamholtz reviews the exhibition America’s Eden:...
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At the Hood: American Landscapes
Thomas Doughty, Rowing on a Mountain Lake, ca. 1835, oil on canvas (Hood Museum of Art) Altoon Sultan considers American landscape paintings in the collection of the Hood Museum of Art. Sultan begins...
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