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Catskills

August 1873
Graphite and white opaque highlights on gray/brown, moderately thick, smooth woven paper
Sheet: 10 x 14 in. (25.4 x 35.6 cm)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

Johnson, Davidnotes
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
Oil on composition board
8 7/16 x 11 1/16 in. (21.5 x 28.1 cm)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

Johnson, David GA
River Landscape at Sunset

ca. 1890
oil on canvas
16 1/8 x 19 5/8 in. (41.0 x 50.0 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Johnson, David GA
Sunset in the Catskills

1862
Oil on Canvas
Overall: 76 x 116.9 cm (29 15/16 x 46")

Brigham Young University, Museum of Fine Arts

Provo, UT

Bricher, Alfred Thompsonnotes
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
oil on canvas
38.7 x 76.8 cm (15 1/4 x 30 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, IL

Heade, Martin Johnsonnotes
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
oil on canvas
17 1/4 x 36 3/8 in. (43.8 x 92.4 cm) Framed: 28 1/16 x 47 3/16 x 5 in.

Detroit Institute of Arts

Detroit, MI

Heade, Martin Johnson GA
Newburyport Meadows

oil on canvas
10 1/2 x 22 in. (26.7 x 55.9 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

Heade, Martin Johnson GA
Approaching Thunder Storm

1859
oil on canvas
28 x 44 in. (71.1 x 111.8 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

Heade, Martin Johnson GA
Rocks in New England

1855
oil on canvas
43.5 x 69.21 cm (17 1/8 x 27 1/4 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

Heade, Martin Johnson GA
April Showers

1868
oil on canvas
50.48 x 102.23 cm (19 7/8 x 40 1/4 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

Heade, Martin Johnsonnotes
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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