“Look around you — the clear sky, the pure air, the tender grass, the birds; nature is beautiful and sinless, and we, only we, are foolish and we don’t understand that...
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In 1859, the American landscape painter Frederic Edwin Church (1826—1900) traveled by ship to Newfoundland to observe icebergs. The artist made many sketches and...
Under a moonlit sky, Albert Bierstadt’s (1830—1902) trappers are at home in the dark, mysterious wilderness. Albert Bierstadt’s romantic painting style sought to capture...
“The magnificent beauty of the natural world is a manifestation of the mysterious natural laws that will be forever obscured from us.” — Albert Bierstadt. Albert...
A native New Yorker, Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823—1900) practiced as both a painter and an architect. In this wide view of one of the most visited areas in the...
To British-born Thomas Cole (1801—1848), the American wilderness seemed an untouched Eden. Considered the founder of the Hudson River School, he imbued his scenes of...
A true artist-explorer, Frederic Edwin Church (1826—1900) traveled the globe to invigorate his artistic career. While he eventually settled at Olana in upstate New York,...
Luminist painter Norton Bush (1834—1894), who traveled to Nicaragua on his way from New York to San Francisco, used dramatic means to evoke the warmth and stillness of...
A large painting of a lush Indonesian tropical landscape was painted by Raden Saleh (1811—1880), an Indonesian Romantic artist of Arab-Javanese ethnicity. He came to the...
“Kindred Spirits”, a painting by Asher Brown Durand (1796—1886), shows a view of the Catskill Mountains as a Romantic landscape, where irregular trees and deep chasms...
In his early career, the Swiss-Russian-British artist Nicholas Chevalier (1828—1902) painted many fine landscapes of Australia and New Zealand. Born in St Petersburg of...
Eugene von Guérard (1811—1901) was an Austrian-born artist, active in Australia from 1852 until 1882. Known for his finely detailed landscapes in the tradition of the...
Thomas Cole's renowned four-part series traces the journey of an archetypal hero along the "River of Life." Confidently assuming control of his destiny and oblivious to...
Albert Bierstadt's (1830–1902) paintings of the untamed American West are some of the most significant historical and artistic accomplishments of the 19th century. The...
While this work has been historically identified as Lake George, the composition more closely resembles Cropsey's paintings of Greenwood Lake in Orange County, New York....
“The New England Coast” belongs to an important subset of Francis Augustus Silva's (1835—1886) coastal landscapes in which he manipulates the landscape to achieve...
Francis Augustus Silva (1835—1886), who lived in Brooklyn and maintained a studio in Manhattan, made frequent trips up the Hudson River in the 1870s to gather...
John Martin 1789—1854) was largely a self-taught artist, who achieved through his vivid imagination and bold, theatrical style an epitome of the romantic sublime in...
Painted circa 1873, “October on the Hudson” is one of Francis Augustus Silva’s (1835—1886) most successful forays in the luminist idiom, characterised by an emphasis on...
Norton Bush (1834—1894) was born in Rochester, New York and as a teenager studied with Hudson River School landscape painters known for their detailed and dramatic...
The group of paintings called "The Last Summer's Work," left behind in John Frederick Kensett's (1816—1872) summer studio at Darien, Connecticut, at his death in...
Lionel Edwards (1878—1966) was a British artist who specialised in painting horses and other aspects of British country life. He is best known for his hunting scenes but...
At the age of seventeen British-born Thomas Cole (1801—1848) emigrated with his family from England to the United States, first working as a wood engraver in...
The landscape painter Thomas Cole (1801—1848) was born in northern England at the start of the Industrial Revolution, immigrated to the United States in his youth, and...
Wilderness landscape paintings such as ‘The Sierras, Lake Tahoe’ by Albert Bierstadt (1830—1902) provide the viewer with an essentially spiritual aesthetic experience....
