Landscape and history painter who progressed from realist, through Barbizon to Impressionism, then his views caught fire. Spectacular landscapes indeed.
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Paintings by Richard Parkes Bonington, Edward Lear, JMW Turner, and John Ferguson Weir, during the revival of interest in Venice.
One of the first serious landscape painters in Europe, contemporary and friend of Dürer, and originator of the World View, a precursor to the panorama.
Paintings from Childe Hassam of his summer campaigns on Appledore Island, and from Robert Henri and his pupil George Bellows, mainly from the 20th century.
Paintings from 1845 by Thomas Cole, Frederic Edwin Church his pupil, Winslow Homer, and other American artists from the 18th century.
Later landscapes from 1880, by Boudin, Vincent van Gogh, Gauguin, Renoir, and others, prior to their decline in the early 20th century.
Landscapes featuring women washing linen and clothes from Isabey, Jongkind, Boudin, Berthe Morisot, Sisley and others.
Born in Victoria, British Columbia, she started painting First Nations totems in 1907, and decided to document them on the NW coast.
All the articles in this series, from Aerial Perspective to Zeitgeist.
An introduction to a new series tracing the history of the countryside in fine paintings. Explains why some English country lanes have so many twisting bends.
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