Pioneering painter of industry in the West Point foundry, a superb series of landscapes across the lakes of the Alps, then Professor and first Director of the School of Fine Arts at Yale University.
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In 1880, a detailed realist, he then became more experimental with looser brushstrokes before adopting Divisionism in 1887. His later paintings took over from where van Gogh left off.
Over 20 years of views over the lake from Hodler, with his Parallelist style, and culminating in some of the most sublime landscapes in European painting.
Paintings from 19th century masters including JMW Turner, the Swiss specialist Alexandre Calame, John Ferguson Weir, and Gustave Courbet in exile.
Increasingly challenging reflections by Caillebotte, Martin Rico, Normann in the Norwegian fjords, specialist Frits Thaulow, and an essay in optics by Kazimierz Sichulski.
Accurate when on his home ground, Constable appears to have altered reflections for effect. Turner even more so, with frequent vertical exaggeration, but wonderful effects.
An overview of reflections in landscape paintings by van Eyck, Dürer, Cuyp, Poussin, Claude Lorrain, Canaletto, and Claude-Joseph Vernet in 1771.
Introduction to the geometry of reflections on water, and a composite image to aid their analysis. How Turner altered some of the reflections he painted.
Leader’s Worcester, Constable’s several paintings of Salisbury, Canaletto’s Saint Paul’s in London, a Thanksgiving at St Paul’s, Bastien-Lepage and Le Sidaner.
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.
The Eclectic Light Company 