#american painting

[jareckiworld]

Eli McMullen — Dream Weaver (acrylic on panel, 2025)

[the-cricket-chirps]

Untitled (Green Paintings)

Cy Twombly

ca. 1986

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Lily Furedi, The Subway, 1934. Oil on canvas.

Early in 1934 Furedi, a Hungarian immigrant, was accepted into the Public Works of Art Project. This pioneering federal program employed artists at craftsmen's wages to make pictures on the theme of "the American scene." Her contribution to the project was the painting called The Subway. The picture was one of twenty-five selected for presentation as gifts to the White House. It was also in a group that President and Mrs. Roosevelt had themselves selected as being among the best in the show. Beginning in 1935, when it accompanied a book review in The New York Times, the painting has frequently been used as an illustration in books, articles, news accounts, and Internet web sites

Photo: Wikimedia Commons Text: Wikipedia

[geritsel]

Herman Herzog - Fisherman's Bay, South Farallon Island, 1875.

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

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

via invaluable.com

[pathsofart]

The image shows the painting "A Gorge in the Mountains (Kauterskill Clove)" by Sanford Robinson Gifford.

Title: A Gorge in the Mountains (Kauterskill Clove).

Artist: Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823–1880), an American artist.

Date: 1862.

Medium: Oil on canvas.

Location: Currently on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.

Subject: Gifford often depicted Kauterskill Clove in the Catskill Mountains, which was one of her favorite subjects.

[galleryofart]

Passing By

Artist: Ernest Martin Hennings (American, 1886–1956)

Date: c. 1924

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, United States

Description

As tightly woven as a fine tapestry, Passing By shows people of the Taos Pueblo moving through a glade of cottonwoods in the brilliant autumn sun of the Southwest. The figures and landscape are integrated as one.

Exhibited in the 1924 Venice Biennale and the winner of the gold medal in the 1926 exhibition at New York’s National Academy of Design, Passing By is among the finest paintings produced by Taos Society artist E. Martin Hennings. The Taos Society of Artists was the first art colony established west of the Mississippi River, its roots going back to 1898. Following the development of railroad travel and tourism in the Southwest, artists rushed there and embraced Pueblo culture and the dramatic colors and topography of the desert region.

Shimmering like a golden screen shot through with vivid notes of blue, this painting presents a dramatic backdrop of aspen trees against which three Taos Pueblo Indians pass by as if in a timeless procession. All three men are wrapped in woven blankets and wear silver adornment, long braids, and modern clothing. In Passing By, Hennings presents a solemn, dignified image of an enduring native culture.

[justsomepaintingsforyou]

Angel, Abbott Handerson Thayer | 1887

[moonofmiranda]

John Baldessari, What is a Painting? (1966-68), U.S.A

[jareckiworld]

Kat Lyons — Pendulum Sun (oil on canvas, 2022)

[the-cricket-chirps]

Jamie Wyeth

Envy -The Seven Deadly Sins

2005

[boselliart]

[geritsel]

Frederic Edwin Church - The Icebergs, 1861.

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

~ Gari Melchers, photo study and final piece, The China Closet (1905)

photo via garimelchers.org // painting via umw.edu

[pathsofart]

The painting in the image is a portrait of a woman, created by African-American artist Laura Wheeler Waring. Laura Wheeler Waring (1887–1948) was an American artist and educator, known for her realistic portraits of prominent African-Americans, landscapes, and still lifes. She was an important figure during the Harlem Renaissance.

Waring studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris. She taught art for over 30 years at Cheyney College in Pennsylvania.

In addition to her paintings, Waring also created illustrations for short stories, poems, and articles for luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance. She was also a member of the NAACP and contributed illustrations to the organization's monthly publication, The Crisis.

[ariadneauxyeuxmarrons]

William MacGregor Paxton, Elsa in the Pink Drress, 1932