From John Singer Sargent’s alligators near Miami, through Anna Althea Hills’ fall in Orange County, to Grant Wood’s Spring in the yard in Iowa.
Cooper
He was on board the Carpathia when it rescued survivors from the Titanic, and moved to the West Coast in 1915, where he painted its lush vegetation and rich light.
Trained in the US and Paris, he started painting New York skyscrapers around 1900, the right painter in the right place at the right time.
The botanical painter Marianne North, Val Prinsep who was born in Kolkata and painting for Queen Victoria, Colin Campbell Cooper, and Nicholas Roerich, who died there in 1947.
How Thomas Girtin’s watercolours of British cathedrals matured from his first of Rochester when he was only 15, to Durham and Ripon Minster a decade later.
More influence in paintings by van Gogh, Pierre Bonnard, Paul Gauguin, the Nabis sculptor Georges Lacombe, Helen Hyde, and Colin Campbell Cooper.
Ink, soot suspended in water, making the transition from drawings into paintings. The secret of shellac. Casein, originally from sour milk, as a binder in some vast murals.
An umbrella Madonna, parasols of the nobility, in soirées on the beach, the rise of the white parasol and arrival of Japonisme, with Sargent and Sorolla, and in California.
St George’s Chapel, Windsor; a Spanish sacristy; Church of St Francis of Assisi; Basilica of St-Denis; Tanum and Uvdal Stave Church; Lincoln Cathedral; Reims Cathedral.
Crowds in the cities of Paris, Berlin with its new electric trams, and the rush hour in New York City. People, horse cabs, trams and early cars everywhere.
The Eclectic Light Company 