‘The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak.’ Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902). Oil on canvas. 186.7 x 306.7 cm. 1863. New York, Metropolitan Museum.
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The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak by Albert Bierstadt, 1863
The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak — Albert Bierstadt, 1863. The scale, the light breaking through clouds… this is America before the interstate. 🏔️
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"Emigrants Crossing the Plains" offers a sweeping and romantic vision of the westward migration and the diverse nature of the frontier. Bierstadt, a German-born American painter associated with the Hudson River School, was renowned for his grand, dramatic landscapes that captured both the beauty and the myth of the American West. Through works like this, he not only documented the nation's expansion but also shaped how generations would imagine the frontier experience.
Emigrants Crossing the Plains by Albert Bierstadt, 1867, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum (Oklahoma City, OK)
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View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow Thomas Cole
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Waves crash against a rocky shore. A lighthouse stands on the shore in the upper left of the image; a small house is to its left. The scene appears to be illuminated by the light of a full moon, just out of frame.
#LighthouseArt of the Day
Albert Bierstadt (German-American, 1830-1902), Newport #Lighthouse, 1860s, oil on paper mounted on masonite.
Courtesy Santa Barbara Museum of Art, sbma.org
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Chalky sediment and earthy ochres define this colossal vista. Moran's aggressive brushwork carves sharp ecological strata, contrasting with atmospheric washes that blur distant peaks into a sublime haze. This dramatic chiaroscuro generates an overwhelming awe for nature's raw power. Moran's radical choice was to render the geologic sublime as a spiritual revelation. Moran was a key figure in the Hudson River School and the Rocky Mountain School of landscape painting. "Miracle of Nature" was created during a period of heightened interest in the American West, fueled by exploration, railroad expansion, and the desire to document and celebrate the nation's natural resources. It exemplifies the Luminist style, focusing on light and atmospheric effects. The painting contributed to the growing national park movement, influencing public opinion and ultimately leading to the establishment of Yellowstone National Park and the Grand Canyon as protected areas.
A Miracle of Nature [Grand Canyon, Arizona (A Miracle of Nature) (Zoroaster Peak, Grand Cañon)] by Thomas Moran, 1872, U.S. Department of the Interior Museum (Washington DC, United States)
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Heade made over 100 paintings of salt marshes, whose flat expanses provided a canvas for the play of weather and tides. In "Sudden Shower, Newbury Marshes," Heade's mastery of perspective allows the small canvas to convey a sense of the broad, flat landscape of the Massachusetts coast. In contrast to the regularly spaced haystacks, the looming clouds and veils of rain in this painting suggest impending change. Americans transformed agriculture by introducing the first effective harvesting machinery in the 1840s, yet Heade depicts the gathering of salt hay for animal feed, a traditional process resistant to mechanization and necessitated by the encroachment of New England's cities upon its pastures. Built on stilts, the haystack in the foreground suggests the fragility of the region's rural economy.
Sudden Showers, Newbury Marshes by Martin Johnson Heade, 1875, Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Connecticut, United States)
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More about the painting and the artist #HudsonRiverSchool #AmericanRomantics en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worthin...
An white octagonal conical lighthouse tower stands on a grassy hill overlooking a beach under a cloudy sky. A one-story red-roofed white house stands to the left of the tower.
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William Hart (American, 1823-1894), New London, #Connecticut, ca. 1870, oil on canvas.
Courtesy Columbus Museum, Georgia, comuga.org/
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Waves crest and break against a rocky shoreline under a sky filled with heavy, purple-tinted clouds. A white lighthouse lower stands on a headland in the background to the right.
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Alfred Thompson Bricher (American, 1837-1908), Coastal Scene with #Lighthouse, 1875, #watercolor and #gouache on paper.
Via artrenewal.org
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Waves break against rocks on a shoreline under a cloudy sky. A white lighthouse tower stands on a high crag. A ship is at sail on the horizon.
#LighthouseArt of the Day
Alfred Thompson Bricher (American, 1837-1908), #Lighthouse, n.d., #watercolor and #gouache on paper.
Private collection, via Debra Force Fine Art, Inc., debraforce.com
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Landscape as a form of theater and spectacle culminated in 19th-century American art with the work of Thomas Moran and Albert Bierstadt. Both artists emigrated from Europe at young ages and went on to achieve success as interpreters of the American West. The new, epic landscape they depicted functioned as a national symbol of grandeur and promise, yet at the same time it served as rumination on the subject of nature and the divinity to be found within it. Bierstadt first left the East Coast to travel west in 1859, accompanying a government-sponsored trip from Missouri to the Rocky Mountains. Compiled from close observation, sketches, and stereoscopic views taken on the expedition, "Indians Spear Fishing" portrays the West as a pristine, sublime wilderness that seemingly could be found only in the Bible's Book of Genesis. Within a compressed space, Bierstadt draws together barren rock formations, towering waterfalls, spindly trees, crystalline water reflecting rocky outcrops, and a peak that pierces the wispy and moisture-laden clouds, turning to mist below. In the brightly lit foreground near the shore, a boat filled with three Native Americans provides scale and identifies the location as unmistakably that of the West; the boat laden with furs spells the riches of the land.
Indians Spear Fishing by Albert Bierstadt, 1862, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Houston, TX)
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William Trost Richards (November 14, 1833 – November 8, 1905) was an American landscape artist.[1] He was associated with both the #hudsonriverschool and the American Pre-Raphaelite movement
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View near New London, Connecticut by Francis Augustus Silva, 1877, Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY)
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For more on Silva and his work, see nasjournal.org/NASJ/article...
Cresheim Glen, Wissahocken. 1864. Thomas Moran. Fall landscape painting set in Wissahocken, Pennsylvania, realistic, colorful trees and a stream and rocks. Thomas Moran (1837-1926) was one of the Hudson River School artists known for landscape paintings, often massive paintings depicting the grandeur and beauty of America.
Monday Moran.
Thomas Moran.
Cresheim Glen, Wissahocken.
1864. Private Collection.
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#landscape #fall #autumn
#landscapepainting
#HudsonRiverSchool
New Jersey Landscape
George Inness, 1891
“You must suggest to me reality-you can never show me reality.”
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A large tock rises on a sandy beach by a calm sea. A figure, apparently a woman, stands on the beach near a pair of boats drawn up on the sand. A lighthouse stands on an island in the distance, and shops are at sail on the water.
Alfred Thompson Bricher (American, 1837-1908), Castle Rock, #Nahant, #Massachusetts, 1877, oil on canvas.
Courtesy White House Historical Association, archives.whitehousehistory.org
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Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art. image from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_View_of_the_Mountain_Pass_Called_the_Notch_of_the_White_Mountans_(Crawford_Notch)-1839-Thomas_Cole.jpg
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‘A View of the Mountain Pass Called the Notch of the White Mountains’ (Crawford Notch). Thomas Cole (1801–1848). 1839.
#ThomasCole #AmericanArt #autumncolors #autumnfoliage #WhiteMountains
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‘Autumn Landscape with Lake, Mountains and Cattle’
Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823-1900). Oil on Canvas. Dated ‘188[?]’
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A lighthouse stands on a distant rocky headland under a partly cloudy sky. In the foreground, waves break against a rocky coast.
#LighthouseArt of the Day
Alfred Thompson Bricher (American, 1837-1908), #Lighthouse by the sea, n.d., oil on canvas.
Private collection, via Christie's, christies.com
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Olana State Historic Site-
The former home of Frederic Edwin Church- a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters 🖼️
#palacesandgardens #exterior
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“Self-Indulgence: A Paean to the Hudson River School
of Painting”
1:48pm
June 16, 2025
Olana State Historic Site, NY
©️Robert E. Klurfield
#portrair
#color #colorwork #portraiture
Olana, the 1870 home of painter #FredericEdwinChurch of the #HudsonRiverSchool designed by Church and #CalvertVaux
“Obverse & Reverse, a double, double portrait”
1:47pm
June 16, 2025
Olana State Historic Site, NY
©️Robert E. Klurfield
#portrair
#color #colorwork #portraiture
Olana, the 1870 home of painter #FredericEdwinChurch of the #HudsonRiverSchool designed by Church and #CalvertVaux
Homer Dodge Martin was an American landscape painter. Initially aligned with the #HudsonRiverSchool, he was later heavily influenced by the #BarbizonSchool, with its looser, more emotive stule, and #Impressionism.
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A white cylindrical lighthouse tower connected to a keeper's cottage by a covered walkway stands on a rocky point as waves break against the shore at twilight.
#LighthouseArt of the Day
Francis Augustus Silva (American, 1835-1886), Cuttyhunk Light, 1872, oil on canvas.
Via Wikimedia Commons.
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Love #arthistory Don't miss The Muscarelle Museum of Art in #colonialwilliamsburg featuring #glackens #cropsey #hudsonriverschool and so much more artexpeditiontours.com/2025/05/25/w...
