More of Chase’s pupils, including early American Modernists John Marin, Marsden Hartley, Charles Demuth, and Georgia O’Keeffe, and many others.
Stella
From John Singer Sargent’s alligators near Miami, through Anna Althea Hills’ fall in Orange County, to Grant Wood’s Spring in the yard in Iowa.
In the early 1920s, he painted myths, then developed his near-Surrealist fantasies with fruit, flowers and birds. The spent much of the next decade back in Europe, before returning to settle in the Bronx.
He emigrated from Italy to the USA in 1896, where he was trained by William Merritt Chase in New York. He returned to Italy in 1909, adopted modern style, and returned to the US in 1912.
Later examples as it declined in popularity, from David Teniers the Younger, Gerard ter Borch, and most recently from Claude-Joseph Vernet and Joseph Stella.
Venus born surrounded by colourful fish, in the element water, in a feeding frenzy by Turner’s Slave Ship, with mermaids, and brought ashore ready to eat.
Modern and mixed media such as wax crayons, pencils, oil pastels, oil sticks and oil bars have become increasingly popular, although many age poorly and most have to be kept under glass.
Paintings by Edgar Degas, John Brett, Alfred Hunt, Giuseppe De Nittis, Marià Fortuny, Renoir, Joseph Stella, and others.
By William Blake, Gérôme, Fritz von Uhde, Maurice Denis, Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, and Joseph Stella. Merry Christmas!
Colin Campbell Cooper’s skyscrapers on Broadway, Columbus Circle, and Manhattan. George Bellows’ human landscapes, and Joseph Stella’s Coney Island and Brooklyn Bridge.
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