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Catskills August 1873 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | Johnson, David | This drawing of a gnarled tree growing over boulders contains passages of both meticulous deliberation and charming spontaneity. It appears that the artist took a quick break from the primary scene to sketch another subject in the upper right corner of the sheet. With a few economical strokes of his pencil and brush, he created the barest outline of... | GA | |
Wallkill Scenery ca. 1885 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | Johnson, David | GA | ||
River Landscape at Sunset ca. 1890 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Johnson, David | GA | ||
Sunset in the Catskills 1862 Brigham Young University, Museum of Fine Arts Provo, UT | Bricher, Alfred Thompson | This tranquil rendering of the sun setting in the Catskill Mountains of New York State creates a vision of the American landscape as a peaceful paradise. Much of the American landscape, however, was anything but peaceful when Bricher painted this work. The illusion of harmony created by the portrayal of satisfied cows, a red barn, and trees framing a... | GA | |
York Harbor, Coast of Maine 1877 Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL | Heade, Martin Johnson | Restricted gift of Mrs. Herbert A. Vance; Americana, Lacy Armour and Roger McCormick endowments; through prior gifts of Dr. and Mrs. R. Gordon Brown, Emily Crane Chadbourne, George F. Harding Collection, Brooks McCormick, and James S. Pennington | GA | |
Sunset c. 1880 Detroit Institute of Arts Detroit, MI | Heade, Martin Johnson | GA | ||
Newburyport Meadows oil on canvas Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | Heade, Martin Johnson | GA | ||
Approaching Thunder Storm 1859 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | Heade, Martin Johnson | GA | ||
Rocks in New England 1855 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA | Heade, Martin Johnson | GA | ||
April Showers 1868 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA | Heade, Martin Johnson | Unlike Heade's unusual choice of the marshes, this landscape is a more traditional one, but he portrayed the passing effects of a rain shower in a highly original fashion. He minimized the contrast of values and loosened his paint handling to suggest the transient effects of light and atmosphere, something he would explore in depth in his marsh scenes. | GA |
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