#American painter

[4eternal-life]

Lawrence H. Lebduska ( American, 1894 – 1966)

Laurence Lebduska - Horses at the Water Hole

[portrait-paintings]

The Artist's Wife and his Setter Dog

Artist: Thomas Eakins (American, 1844–1916)

Date: c. 1884–1889

Medium: Oil on canvas

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

Description

Eakins began this portrait shortly after his marriage in January 1884 to his former student, Susan Hannah Macdowell (1851–1938), a talented painter and photographer. The setting is his studio at 1330 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia, where the couple—and their dog, Harry—lived from 1884 to 1886. A photogravure of the painting from 1886 reveals a more robust woman, suggesting that Eakins reworked the portrait, amplifying the effect of the skylight’s illumination. The alterations may have reflected Eakins’s anguish over his controversial dismissal from the school of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, partly for removing the loincloth from a male model in a co-ed class.

[solcattus]

Retrospection, c. 1913

By Ernest Haskell

[the-cricket-chirps]

Untitled (Green Paintings)

Cy Twombly

ca. 1986

[marejadilla]

Mark Beck, “Sleeps Dark and Silent Promise”, ca 2024, acrylic on canvas.  B.1942,  Las Cruces, New Mexico, active/lives in California.

[galleryofart]

Salome Dancer

Artist: Robert Henri (American, 1865-1929)

Date: 1909

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, Amherst, MA, United States

Description

Broad, slashing strokes give powerful shape to this defiant female figure standing with parted legs, a pose more athletic - even pugilistic - than seductive. Her oppositional posturing matched the painter’s contrary aesthetic sensibilities. The Realist painter Henri sought a provocative and timely subject in Salome, the biblical figure who served as her mother’s dutiful pawn in facilitating King Herod’s assassination of John the Baptist. By the late nineteenth century Salome had evolved into a far more aggressive and decadent creature, as witnessed in Oscar Wilde’s notorious play of 1891. That Henri adopted the theme in 1909 suggests his desire to capitalize on Salome’s high currency for controversy, which had been confirmed by the New York Metropolitan Opera’s scandal-provoking performance of Richard Strauss’s Salome (based on Wilde’s play) in 1907. The gleam of amusement that enhances Salome’s haughty expression slyly evokes her complicity in constructing Henri’s own reputation as a radical painter.

[byronthesecond]

John Singer Sargent Strada Veneziana c. 1880-82

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

~ Wilbur Dean Hamilton, Portrait of a Lady in Pink (1916)

via invaluable.com

[churcvh]

“Chambered Nautilus” | “Maidenhair” | “Marriage” | “Christina’s World” (1948) | “Wind from the Sea” (1947) | “Day Dream” (1980) | paintings by American realism painter Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009)

[portrait-paintings]

Woman with a Fan (Portrait of Maude Bouvier)

Artist: Albert Herter (American, 1871 - 1950)

Date: c. 1895

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA, United States

[solcattus]

Sincerity, 1909

By Edward Percy Moran

[the-cricket-chirps]

Jamie Wyeth

Envy -The Seven Deadly Sins

2005

[galleryofart]

Composition (Autumn)

Artist: John Palmer Wicker (American, 1860-1931)

Date: Between 19th and 20th century

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan, United States

Biography

John Palmer Wicker (1860-1931) was born in Ypsilanti, Michigan, Feb. 23, 1860; son of William W. and Charlotte Adelaide (Palmer) Wicker; studied art seven years in Paris, three and one-half years at Julian Academy under William Bouguereau, and three and one-half years in private classes of Ferdinand Cormon; married at Saginaw, Mich., July, 1897, Marie Louise Saxmann.

[allegorypaintings]

The Harp of Erin

Artist: Thomas Buchanan Read (American, 1822-1872)

Date: 1867

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Description

Allegorical painting. The woman represents Ireland and she's chained to a rock which represents England.

[theaskew]

Tina Mion (American b. 1960) The Elk, 2007. Oil on linen, 64 x 56 in.

[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.