Friday, August 30, 2013

Edward Cucuel

Edward Alfred Cucuel (1875 - 1954)

Autumn Sun


 Girl With a Straw Hat




The Bathing Place

Edward Cucuel (August 6, 1875, San Francisco - April 18, 1954, Pasadena, California), was an American-born painter who lived and worked in Germany.
In 1912 Cucuel successfully exhibited some of his works in Paris. His paintings resemble the French impressionists as to colour and motif. His favourite motifs are portraits of women and nudes in bright interiors, plein-air-representations with social scenes, and Bavarian landscapes.

David Patterson


House in the Meadow, soft pastel

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Sara Harju


Sara Harju - Late Autumn

Paul Ranson


 Apple Tree with Red Fruit (c.1902)

Kim Cogan


Kim Cogan

Karen Margulis


Among the Lupines Summer Meadow, oil painting

Josef Kote



Gustave Courbet

Gustave Courbet (French, 1819-1877)



The Desperate Man ‘self-portrait’ 1845



The Black Rocks at Trouville 1865-1866


The Waterspout, 1866, Oil on canvas, 43.2 x 65.7 cm






The Calm Sea, 1869. Oil on canvas, 23 1/2 x 28 3/4 in. (59.7 x 73 cm)

Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (10 June 1819 – 31 December 1877) was a French painter who led the Realist movement in 19th-century French painting. The Realist movement bridged the Romantic movement (characterized by the paintings of Théodore Géricault and Eugène Delacroix) with the Barbizon School and the Impressionists. Courbet occupies an important place in 19th century French painting as an innovator and as an artist willing to make bold social statements through his work.
“ I am fifty years old and I have always lived in freedom; let me end my life free; when I am dead let this be said of me: 'He belonged to no school, to no church, to no institution, to no academy, least of all to any régime except the régime of liberty."

C. R. W. Nevinson


C. R. W. Nevinson - The Arrival, 1913

Alexi Zaitsev


Delphiniums Against Sky

Tuesday, August 6, 2013

John Ottis Adams

John Ottis Adams (American, 1851-1927)

Flower Border

J. (John) Ottis Adams (July 8, 1851 – January 28, 1927) was an American impressionist painter and member of the Hoosier Group of Indiana painters.
He spent his youth in Franklin, Shelbyville, and Martinsville, Indiana and attended Wabash College for two years.
He studied art at the South Kensington School of Art in London for two years. He settled in Muncie in 1876 and opened a studio there in 1887 after spending seven years doing further art study in Munich with T. C. Steele and other members of the Hoosier Group. Adams was the central figure in the formation of an art school in Muncie, Indiana, where he later participated in forming the Art Students League of Muncie, after the Muncie Art School closed.
Adams later (with other members of the Hoosier Group) founded the Herron School of Art in Indianapolis. He and his wife, Winifred Brady Adams, also a painter, lived and painted at The Hermitage in Brookville, Indiana along with T. C. Steele and his wife.

Together with William Forsyth, Adams also instructed American Impressionist artist Francis Focer Brown (1891–1971).

Richard Edward Miller

Richard E. Miller (American, 1875 – 1943)


Summer Reverie


Landscape, Provincetown


Standing nude

Reclining Nude


Richard E. Miller (March 22, 1875 – January 23, 1943) was an American Impressionist painter and a member of the Giverny Colony of American Impressionists. Miller was primarily a figurative painter, known for his paintings of women posing languidly in interiors or outdoor settings. Miller grew up in St. Louis, studied in Paris, and then settled in Giverny. Upon his return to America, he settled briefly in Pasadena, California and then in the art colony of Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he remained for the rest of his life. Miller was a member of the National Academy of Design in New York and an award winning painter in his era, honored in both France and Italy, and a winner of France's Legion of Honor. Over the past several decades, he has been the subject of a retrospective exhibition and his work has been reproduced extensively in exhibition catalogs and featured in a number of books on American Impressionism.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Edward_Miller

Mary Cassatt, Red Poppies

Mary Stevenson Cassatt (American, 1844 – 1926)

Red Poppies (1880)



Woman in a Lodge, c.1880


Autumn


Mary Stevenson Cassatt (May 22, 1844 – June 14, 1926) was an American painter and printmaker. She lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists. Cassatt often created images of the social and private lives of women, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children.
She was described by Gustave Geffroy in 1894 as one of "les trois grandes dames" of Impressionism alongside Marie Bracquemond and Berthe Morisot.

The Ten: Frank Weston Benson

Frank W. Benson (American, 1862 – 1951) 

Summer (1900)

Benson, a leading member of the group of American painters known as “the Ten”, taught in both Boston and New York and occasionally offered studio critiques to students at Rhode Island School of Design. 
In this painting, the light-filled view represents Benson’s daughters and niece on the cliffs near the artist’s vacation home on North Haven Island in Penobscot Bay, Maine. Rendered with the brilliant palette and broken brushstrokes of French Impressionism, it is based on sketches and photographs that captured the poses of these confident young women, personifications of beauty and optimism on a perfect summer day.
source: http://fuckyeahimpressionism.tumblr.com/page/7

River Landscape, 1924


Head of a lady


Evening, 1925. Watercolor, gouache and graphite.


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Monday, August 5, 2013

Michael Dubina




lan Baruch

Mount Carmel Inclines, 1999

Konstantin Sterkhov

Sea Meets Sky II, 2006

Ilya Repin

Portrait of Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev


Portrait of Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev, 1905

Ilya Repin was a talented Russian painter of the Peredvizhniki School, who was held up by the Soviet government as an artist to be imitated by the new school of Socialist Realists. 
At the age of 22, Repin began his art career at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, the same time as the “Rebellion of the Fourteen,” when 14 young artists left the school after refusing to paint mythological paintings for their diplomas. These artists would later form the Society of the Peredvizhniki, which Repin joined in 1878. 
Repin and the free thinking “itinerants,” as they were also called, rebelled against the formal academy, insisting that art should reflect real life. As an art student, his travels took him to Italy, Paris and Impressionist Exhibitions, and although he was exposed to the vivid colors and quick brush strokes of the impressionist style, he remained true to his unique form of realism.



Helen M. Turner


Countryside (also known as French Countryside) - circa 1920

Sunday, August 4, 2013

Frida Holleman

Frida Holleman (1908-1999)

Storm

Eugène Louis Boudin, the king of the skies


Trouville, les jetées, marée haute


The Beach, Cloudy Sky (1885)


Deauville, the Dunes (1891)

Eugène Louis Boudin (French: [budɛ̃]; 12 July 1824 – 8 August 1898) 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".

Saturday, August 3, 2013

a Canadian painter: Thomas Lorraine Hunt

Thomas L Hunt (1882-1938)

The Pier. Oil on canvas. 28 x 30 in (71.12 x 76.2 cm)

Thomas Lorraine Hunt (11 February 1882 – 17 April 1938) was a Canadian-American landscape painter of the 1920s and 30s, known especially for his dramatic use of color. His paintings are considered a transition from impressionism to modernism. His primary subjects were boats and harbors in which the colors and shapes on the canvas took precedence over the exactness of the objects. Hunt was active among the Southern California group of Impressionist plein air painters and a founding member of the Laguna Art Museum.


A Belgian artist: Constant Permeke


Landscape

Constant Permeke (31 July 1886 – 4 January 1952) was a Belgian painter and sculptor who is considered the leading figure of Flemish expressionism.

Friday, August 2, 2013

Charles W. Hawthorne

Charles Webster Hawthorne (American, 1872 – 1930)

On Board The S. S. Alesia, circa 1928-1929


The House, Provincetown 1927-1930


Highland Lighthouse


Artist in Plein Air



Two Mesquite Trees, 1928



Untitled


Provincetown


Charles Webster Hawthorne (January 8, 1872 – November 29, 1930) was an American portrait and genre painter and a noted teacher who founded the Cape Cod School of Art in 1899.

He was born in Lodi, Illinois and his parents returned to Maine, raising him in the state where Charles' father was born. At age 18, he went to New York, working as an office-boy by day in a stained-glass factory and studying at night school and with Henry Siddons Mowbray and William Merritt Chase, and abroad in both the Netherlands and Italy.

Maximilien Luce

Maximilien Luce (French, 1858-1941)

La Marne et le Pont de Fer à Lagny, 1888
Oil on canvas, 24.8 x 32.8 cm.


La Sainte-Chapelle, Paris, 1901


View of the Theâtre du Châtelet


The Port of Rotterdam, Evening, 1908


The Grove,  1909


Le Treport, the Jetty, 1930

Maximilien Luce (13 March 1858 – 6 February 1941) was a prolific French Neo-impressionist artist, known for his paintings, illustrations, engravings, and graphic art, and also for his anarchist activism. 
Starting as an engraver, he then concentrated on painting, first as an Impressionist, then as a Pointillist, and finally returning to Impressionism.