How did great painters of the East Coast paint the cities in which they lived and worked?
Chase
From success to success, she painted the President’s family, and France’s elder statesman and a good friend of Monet.
Why did he paint so many still lifes? And why did so many of them feature fresh fish?
Their working methods could hardly have been more different, but they shared a common interest.
One of the most famous Texan painters, he is known for his bluebonnet works. But he also painted under pseudonyms when in New York.
A survey of some of his better-known students, from Emma Lampert Cooper, Joseph Stella, and George Bellows, to Georgia O’Keeffe.
With Chase, colleagues, and their students, he laid the foundations of American painting in the 20th century. But the nudes got him into trouble!
As an Impressionist painter, his plein air paintings of Shinnecock are central to his works and career. They were also much of his teaching.
He kept a pictorial record of his wife and children in more formal portraits too. Here’s a selection.
He seems to have loved painting children. Here is his family, at leisure and play, in informal views, often in pastel.
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