No.22

In the Mountains

Hermann Herzog 1832-1932

German-born Herzog, following an extensive trip to Norway, went to America and settled near Philadelphia.  Durin his long life he created more than 1,000 paintings.

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No.21

Lake Scene  (1861)

Sandford Robinson Gifford  1823-80

Starting on Sunday 1st June at "Now that's what I call art"

a short series of paintings by

FREDERICK CARL FRIESEKE  1874-1939

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No.20

Vesuvius and Pompeii  (1870)
Robert Duncanson  1821-72

Starting on Sunday 1st June on "Now that's what I call Art"

a short series of paintings by

FREDERICK CARL FRIESEKE

an American Impressionist artist

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No.19

Nature Study, Trees  (1849)

Asher Brown Durand 1796-86

Durand is particularly remembered for his detailed portrayals of trees, rocks, and foliage. He was an advocate for drawing directly from nature with as much realism as possible.

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No.18

The Wetterhorn

Worthington Whittredge 1820-1910

The Wetterhorn (3,692 m) is a mountain on the Swiss Alps towering above the village of Grindelwald

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No.17

Storm King on the Hudson  (1866)

Samuel Colman  1832-1920

Colman was an American painter, interior designer and writer who became a full member of the National Academy in 1862. He was one of the founders of the American Watercolour Society and became their president in 1867.

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No.16

Staubbach Falls near Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland  (1865)

Albert Bierstadt 1830-1902

Bierstadt was a prolific artist having produced more than 500 paintings during his lifetime. Most of them are in museums in the USA.

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No.15

Untitled Pastoral Scene  (1867)

David Johnson  1827-1908

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No.14

The Old Pine, Darien, Connecticut  (1872)

John Frederick Kensett  1816-72

Kensett was an American painter and engraver who is particularly remembered for his landscape paintings of New England and New York State. He was a founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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No.13

Moonrise on the Coast

John William Casilear 1811-93

Born in New York, Casilear was an engraver who later became interested in landscape painting. He was further inspired by a European tour he made with two other artists Thomas Rossiter and John Kensett, sketching and visiting art museums.

"The Old Pine" by Kensett will be shown here tomorrow.

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No.12

Fingal's Cave, Island of Staffa  (1884/5)

Thomas Moran 1837-1926

The artist was born in Bolton, England to two handloom weavers. The family emigrated to Philadelphia where Thomas became an apprentice in a wood engraving firm. It was there he began to paint and draw, working as both a watercolourist and an illustrator.

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No.11

Greenwood Lake  (1870)

Jasper Francis Cropsey  1823-1900

Greenwood Lake is about seven miles long and lies between the borders of New Jersey and New York. 

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No.10

The Voyage of Life: Youth  (1842)

Thomas Cole 1801-48

The Voyage of Life is a series of Cole's paintings representing an allegory of the four stages of man's life, childhood, youth, manhood and old age. In each painting, accompanied by a guardian angel, the voyager rides the boat on the River of Life.

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No.9

Storm in the Mountains  (1870)

Albert Bierstadt  1830-1902

Bierstadt was a prolific artist who produced more than 500 paintings. For a while his work became unfashionable, but in the 1960s interest revived and his popularity has returned.

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No.8

View of the Hudson River  (1864)
Robert Walter Weir  1803-89

The artist is also remembered as an educator and as a historical painter.

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No.7

The Grand Canyon of the Sierra Nevada, Yosemite  (1872)

Thomas Hill  1829-1908

Thomas Hill was born in England and at 15 years of age emigrated to America with his family. He was famous for his Californian landscapes, especially those of the Yosemite valley and the White Mountains of New Hampshire.

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No.6

Morning in the Tropics  (c.1858)

Frederick Edwin Church 1826-1900

This artist travelled widely in search of romantic subjects and today's painting was based on sketches he made while in Ecuador and Colombia.

Tomorrow -
Great Canyon of the Sierra, Yosemite
by Thomas Hill

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No.5

Ruins in a Landscape

Thomas Doughty 1793-1856

Doughty was first American painter to work exclusively on landscapes.

Tomorrow -

Morning in the Tropics 

by Frederick Edwin Church

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No.4

Cascade

William Stanley Haseltine 1835-1900

Haseltine was an American painter who was also associated with the Dusseldorf School of painting.

Tomorrow - 

Ruins in a Landscape

by Thomas Doughty

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No.3

View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts after a Thunderstorm  (1836)
Thomas Cole 1801-48

It is generally agreed that British-born Thomas Cole was the founder of the Hudson River School. His family emigrated to America in 1818 settling in Steubenville, Ohio. The painting here, also known as The Oxbow, is perhaps his most famous. The river depicted is the Connecticut.

Tomorrow's painting -
Cascade
by William Stanley Haseltine

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No.2

The Amphitheatre of Tusculum and Albano Mountains, Rome  (1860)

Worthington Whittredge 1820-1910

Tomorrow's painting -
View from Mount Holyoke after a Thunderstorm
by Thomas Cole

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No.1

Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains (1868)

Albert Bierstadt 1830-1902

Tomorrow's painting - 

The Amphitheatre of Tusculum and Albano

by Worthington Whittredge

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