#American Scene Painting

[thedarkat]

Edward Hopper ´´New York Movie´´, 1939

[oncanvas]

Tour Bus, Richard Estes, 2012

Oil on panel 19 x 10 in. (48.3 x 25.4 cm)

[lionofchaeronea]

Summer Evening, Edward Hopper, 1947

[ed13d1]

we talked about you

vigil • laura makabresku

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Lilla Cabot Perry (1848-1933) "Reading" Oil on canvas Impressionism

[pintoras]

Anne Goldthwaite (American, 1869-1944): 4 Rue de Chevreuse, Paris (1908) (via Whitney Museum of American Art)

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

William Trost Richards (American, 1833-1905) Luminist Coastal Scene, n.d.

[20thcenturypaintings]

Woman in Red Holding Parrot

Artist: Louis Kronberg (American, 1872–1965)

Date: 1908

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware, United States

[mythologypaintings]

The Fates Gathering in the Stars

Artist: Elihu Vedder (American, 1836–1923)

Date: 1887

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

Description

Elihu Vedder depicted the three Fates of Greek mythology working the thread of life: Clotho spins the thread, Lachesis fixes its length, and Atropos cuts it at the appointed time of death. Their symbolic tools—spindle, distaff, and shears—rest in the foreground, emphasizing the Fates’ decisive role in matters of life and death. Vedder adapted this painting from an illustration he had designed for an 1884 publication by Edward FitzGerald—a translation of the work of 11th-century poet Omar Khayyám, The Rubáiyát. Vedder was attracted to mysterious, visionary subject matter. Here, he explored metaphysical questions of life, death, and afterlife, subjects at the core of Khayyám’s poetry.

[artemlegere]

The Damsel and Orlando

Artist: Benjamin West (American, 1738–1820)

Date: c. 1793

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, United States

Description

The Italian poet Ludovico Ariosto’s epic "Orlando furioso" (1516) enjoyed revived popularity in the eighteenth century. In this melodramatic scene, the costumes, the physical types, and, especially, the poses are reminiscent of the style of the Italian High Renaissance, which West greatly admired. The hero, Orlando, is shown as he learns that he has lost his place in the affections of Angelica, who now loves someone else and has dispensed with a jeweled bracelet Orlando had given her. The painter concentrated all the work’s tension in the theatrical pose of Orlando, who, in the wildness of his grief, loses his mind.

[eirene]

The Procession Of The Bull Apis, 1879 Frederick Arthur Bridgman

[galleryofart]

Three Sisters

Artist: Mabel Pugh (American, 1891–1986)

Date: 1939

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, United States

[oncanvas]

Central Park and the Plaza, William Anderson Coffin, 1917-18

Oil on canvas 24 ¼ x 29 ¼ in. (61.6 x 74.3 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, USA

[lionofchaeronea]

Title: At the Beach Artist: Edward Henry Potthast (American, 1857-1927) Date: ca. 1918 Genre: genre painting Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 61 cm (24 in) high x 76.2 cm (30 in) wide Location: private collection

[ed13d1]

everything will end

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

De Scott Evans (1847-1898) "The Connoisseur" (1887) Oil on canvas