American landscape
Homer and Prouts NeckIn April 2005, while writing an essay on Winslow Homer and the American Landscape, I drove up with my husband to Prouts Neck, Maine where Homer had his studio on land that was owned by his family. Homer, along with his father and two brothers, had purchased property on Prouts Neck from 1882 through 1909, for the purpose of creating a family vacation compound and as an investment in one of the most scenic spots along the Atlantic Coast. An easement or “marg Winslow Homer, Prouts Neck, Maine, Portland Museum of Art, American landscape |
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Hauntingly Beautiful: Frederic Edwin Church’s Parthenon SketchHome of the mythological goddess Athena, the Parthenon is a hauntingly sacred place where the air is ominously rife with magic. Or, at least, that is the mood evoked in Frederic Edwin Church’s (1826-1900) oil sketch of the Parthenon. To create this effect, Church chose to paint the building from below, giving the impression that it looms over the viewer. In reality, this particular view of the Parthenon does not exist, but is rather contrived from composite views and memory. The contrast of red and blue illumination was also almost certainly invented by the artist. Frederic Edwin Church, Thomas Cole, Parthenon, Hudson River School, Romanticism, artificial lighting, Greece, composite view, Metropolitan Museum of Art, American landscape, Architecture, columns, icebergs, nature, Athena, mythology, paintings |
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The American LandscapeMore than 160 selections from the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum’s permanent collection of 19th- and 20th-century American landscapes are on view. This exhibition features Hudson River School artists Thomas Cole, Samuel Colman, Frederic Edwin Church, and Daniel Huntington, as well as works by Winslow Homer and others. American landscape, paintings, Hudson River School, Thomas Cole, Samuel Colman, Frederic Edwin Church, Winslow Homer, Daniel Huntington |
