Was John Ruskin a promoter or detractor? How great was his influence on the style, practice, and success?
Impressionism
Were Pre-Raphaelite landscape paintings just a brief and unimportant, passing phase, or did they have significant influence?
He said he’d rather go to Europe than go to Heaven. Let’s hope that he managed both. Paintings and articles about him listed.
Into the 20th century, and he was busy teaching at Summer Schools in Europe, and trying to come to terms with art of the future.
His golden age, when each summer the family moved up to their house at Shinnecock, where he taught, and painted like never before.
A busy period of work mainly in his New York studio, Chase met and painted with Whistler in London, and Sargent in New York.
First in a series detailing his life and work. This covers his training, and first establishing his studio in New York. Plenty of his paintings are included.
One of the most famous Texan painters, he is known for his bluebonnet works. But he also painted under pseudonyms when in New York.
As an Impressionist painter, his plein air paintings of Shinnecock are central to his works and career. They were also much of his teaching.
Brother of the architect Richard Morris Hunt, he painted portraits of the ‘Boston Brahmins’, then landscapes in Barbizon style.
