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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Ploughing, sowing, weeding, calving and lambing, the hay harvest, sheep shearing, the grain harvest, fruit harvests, then back again to the start.
Paintings of the wild and undeveloped country in Shinnecock when Chase was teaching summer classes in the closing years of the 19th century.
He was invited to teach hundreds of students attending a plein air art school each summer. For 12 consecutive years he taught and painted in the east of Long Island.
He finally achieved success in 1890, and even became a member of the State Parliament. Here’s his curious mix of landscapes and mythology.
Louise Upton Brumback moves from the harbour to the beaches, and with Marsden Hartley visits the abandoned settlement of Dogtown.
Paintings by Fitz Henry Lane, Winslow Homer, Willard Metcalf, Frederick Childe Hassam, and Frank Duveneck.
A prolific painter of everything from landscapes to mythology, he trained in Karlsruhe, travelled widely, but struggled to establish his art in the years to 1885.
They drew carts and ploughs, in preference to horses where power rather than speed was needed. Also for milk, beef and their hides processed into leather.
Pointillisme in the city, with Henri-Edmond Cross and Paul Signac, with more by John Singer Sargent, in the early years of the 20th century.
The Eclectic Light Company 