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.
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From Frederic Edwin Church at the Niagara Falls, through Childe Hassam’s Rainy Day in Boston, to William Merritt Chase teaching outdoor painting on Long Island.
His post-Impressionist religious nocturnes with limited palettes, keyhole gateways in Tangiers, and the flight into Egypt all won international acclaim.
An African-American painter who achieved international acclaim with his early Impressionist landscapes, genre paintings, and innovative religious works.
He was on board the Carpathia when it rescued survivors from the Titanic, and moved to the West Coast in 1915, where he painted its lush vegetation and rich light.
Trained in the US and Paris, he started painting New York skyscrapers around 1900, the right painter in the right place at the right time.
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.
Are cases growing exponentially in Florida? What about Texas and California, are they the same?
Many of the great painters have been migrants. Here are examples from Canaletto to Sargent. Suppress migration, and art will be stifled.
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