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Bierstadt

Painting within Tent: Icefast on the coast of Greenland

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Perhaps the one and only expedition sponsored by an art collector, William Bradford sailed to Greenland in 1869, and based the rest of career on its images.

January 28, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Painting within Tent: introduction to a new series

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Join me to explore Maria Merian’s insects in Surinam, David Livingstone and Thomas Baines on the Zambezi, and William Bradford working his way through pack ice.

January 7, 2021 General, Life, Painting

American Landscapes: a celebration 1

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A celebration for Independence Day, the fourth of July, with a selection of wonderful American landscape paintings.

July 4, 2020 General, Life, Painting

River power: Paintings of watermills 2

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More wonderful landscapes from JC Dahl, Albert Bierstadt, Samuel Palmer, Vincent van Gogh to the remote Norwegian fjords of Nikolai Astrup.

May 10, 2020 General, Life, Painting

The Great Wave 2, Courbet to Gauguin

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After European artists saw Hokusai’s print The Great Wave off Kanagawa, their own depictions became widespread, peaking in 1896.

June 9, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Rolling Thunder: lightning in the landscape

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Superb paintings of lightning storms by Giorgione, Poussin, Delacroix, Constable, Bierstadt, Rousseau, Klimt, Bonnard, and Tom Thomson.

June 1, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Coast: The spectacle of Vesuvius, 2

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JMW Turner and John Martin painted apocalyptic visions, but others like JC Dahl and O Achenbach opted for the less spectacular.

November 16, 2017 General, Life, Painting

Coast: Wintering in Capri 1, to 1880

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Escape to the island of Capri, in the Bay of Naples, for a drop of sunshine in these superb paintings by Carl Blechen, Albert Bierstadt, and others.

October 18, 2017 General, Life, Painting

Coast: Storms, 2 Bierstadt to Bellows

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Rough weather seen on the canvases of Bierstadt, Monet, Winslow Homer, George Bellows, and other fine artists.

August 17, 2017 General, Life, Painting

Book Review: Picturing the Americas, Landscape Painting from Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic, Brownlee, Piccoli & Uhlyarik (eds)

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This book, and exhibition, start to document and analyse an essentially new field.

September 27, 2015 General, Painting

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