#painting bridge

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Spiffing up the Queensboro Bridge with a fresh coat of paint, July 31, 1948.

Photo: Robert Kradin for the AP

[detailedart]

Detail: Moonlight Landscape, 1785, by Joseph Wright of Derby.

[pear-spective]

FIDELIA BRIDGES

Milkweeds (1876)

[lionofchaeronea]

The Lantern Bearers, Maxfield Parrish, 1908

[psikonauti]

Fidelia Bridges (American,1835-1924)

Swallows by the Sea, 1906

Watercolor and gouache

[caleod]

18-7-24

[degenerateshinji]

coloursssss i love coloursghghghdhgh

[dsamuelsonart]

Phantom Limb, oil on canvas, 18 x 28"

[llorithaine]

[foxglovefaun]

same shit. different life.

[nobeerreviews]

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.

-- Andrew Wyeth

(Andermatt, Switzerland)

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Edward Hopper, Manhattan Bridge Loop, 1928. Oil on canvas.

Describing his aims in Manhattan Bridge Loop, Hopper explained that the painting’s horizontal composition was an attempt to give “a sensation of great lateral extent” and bring attention to the cityscape beyond the frame; “I just never cared for the vertical,” he later quipped. His depictions of the wide spans of the city’s bridges, its industrial landscapes, and its low-slung buildings elevate the quotidian and prosaic over the iconic, offering a powerful counterpoint to the awe-inspiring views of the New York skyline celebrated in the news and in works by many of his contemporaries. Alfred H. Barr observed of Hopper’s work in 1933: “His indifference to skyscrapers is remarkable in a painter of New York architecture.”

Photo & text: Whitney Museum of American Art

[classic-art-favourites]

A View of a Park by Hendrik Pieter Koekkoek (1843-1927).

[baby-girl-aaron-dessner]

Now you hang from my lips Like the Gardens of Babylon With your boots beneath my bed Forever is the sweetest con

Cowboy Like Me // T.S.

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826-1900) The Natural Bridge, 1852 The Fralin Museum of Art, Virginia

[psikonauti]

Fidelia Bridges (American,1835-1924)

Sparrows in Winter, 1879

watercolor and gouache