#American painter

[galleryofart20thcentury]

American Gothic

Artist: Grant Wood (American, 1891–1942)

Date: 1930

Medium: Oil on beaver board

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

Description

In American Gothic, Grant Wood directly evoked images of an earlier generation by featuring a farmer and his daughter posed stiffly and dressed as if they were, as the artist put it, “tintypes from my old family album.” They stand outside of their home, built in an 1880s style known as Carpenter Gothic. Wood had seen a similar farmhouse during a visit to Eldon, Iowa.

When it was exhibited at the Art Institute in 1930, the painting became an instant sensation, its ambiguity prompting viewers to speculate about the figures and their story. Many understood the work to be a satirical comment on midwesterners out of step with a modernizing world. Yet Wood intended it to convey a positive image of rural American values, offering a vision of reassurance at the beginning of the Great Depression.

[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.

[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.

[byronthesecond]

John Singer Sargent Strada Veneziana c. 1880-82

[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.

[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)

[galleryofart20thcentury]

Girl in White

Artist: Ruth Pratt Bobbs (American, 1884–1973)

Date: c. 1905-1907

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Newfields, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

Description

The elegant sitter wears a fashionable white cape and black plumed hat selected from the artist’s own wardrobe. Her slender frame is accentuated by the verticality of the canvas and the bamboo-patterned gold screen in the background.

Girl in White depicts Jesseca Penn, a well-known model, actress, and dancer from Des Moines, Iowa. Penn posed for numerous artists, including Robert Henri and Arthur B. Davies.

Bobbs cultivated her artistic skills in Paris, New York, and Indianapolis. She may have executed Girl in White during her studies with Henri at the New York School of Art (formerly the Chase School) from 1905 until 1907.

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"Christmas in Madison Square Park", 1910

oil on canvas, 68.6 x 43.2 cm

Paul Cornoyer (American,1864-1923)

[solcattus]

Sincerity, 1909

By Edward Percy Moran

[the-cricket-chirps]

Jamie Wyeth

Envy -The Seven Deadly Sins

2005

[fleurdulys]

Bar Boy - Salman Toor 2019

[pntngs]

Charles Demuth - Sail: In Two Movements, 1919

[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.