William Merritt Chase’s leafy suburb of Brooklyn in the late 1880s, Robert Henri’s Ashcan view of busy streets in the snow, and the first of Colin Campbell Cooper’s skyscrapers.
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The development of landscape painting of the coast of Cornwall, from the late 18th century, through the Newlyn School, to the 1890s.
Paintings from Norway to California, from Nikolai Astrup, Ants Laikmaa, Lovis Corinth, George Breitner, George Clausen, Paul Nash and Colin Campbell Cooper.
From herons flying above the fields and rivers, to the bustling streets of Paris and New York. Then taking to the air among the clouds of war.
On board RMS Carpathia as it rescued survivors from the Titanic was Cooper, the skyscraper painter, already at work on his gouaches of the scene.
Millet was a central figure in American fine arts, as well as a painter in mid-century Salon style. When returning from Europe he and his friend died after the Titanic struck an iceberg.
Fine paintings from 1921 by Pierre Bonnard, wildlife artist Bruno Liljefors, Colin Campbell Cooper, and others.
Fine paintings from 1921, by John Collier, Christian Krohg, Félix Vallotton, Maurice Denis and others.
Staffage – people, animals, birds, carts and ships – make a big difference to many landscape paintings. Have you met the Wanderer too?
Skyscrapers and human landscapes in New York City, tennis in Rhode Island, and Mardi Gras on Coney Island – and more.
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