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Location. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak is an 1863 landscape oil painting by the German-American painter Albert Bierstadt. It is based on sketches made during Bierstadt's travels with Frederick W. Lander 's Honey Road Survey Party in 1859. The painting shows Lander's Peak in the Wyoming Range of ...
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut Landscape in the Adirondacks: Oil on canvas 1885-86 Metropolitan Museum of Art Stream in the Woods: Oil on canvas ca.1881 Landscape (The Mountain Road) Oil on canvas ca.1884 Lent by Thomas B. Clarke, 1893 Evening (Lent by Wyant's widow) The Storm: Oil on canvas Charles Morris Young
The Art Institute of Chicago, founded in 1879, is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the United States. It is based in the Art Institute of Chicago Building in Chicago 's Grant Park. Its collection, stewarded by 11 curatorial departments, includes works such as Georges Seurat 's A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, Pablo Picasso 's The Old ...
The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, was a world's fair held in Chicago from May 5 to October 31, 1893, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus 's arrival in the New World in 1492. [1] The centerpiece of the Fair, held in Jackson Park, was a large water pool representing the voyage that ...
Thomas Locker. Thomas Locker (June 26, 1937 — March 9, 2012) [1] was an American landscape painter and award winning illustrator, and author of Children's literature [2] His oil paintings follow in the tradition of the 19th-century Hudson River School of painting. [3]
Landscape with scene from the Odyssey, Rome, c. 60–40 BCE. Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction in painting of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, rivers, trees, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a coherent composition.
Location. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The Heart of the Andes is a large oil-on-canvas landscape painting by the American artist Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900). It depicts an idealized landscape in the South American Andes, where Church traveled on two occasions. Measuring more than five feet (1.5 meters) high and almost ten feet ...
The Notch of the White Mountains: 1839 Oil on canvas 102 by 155.8 centimetres (40.2 in × 61.3 in) National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New England Scenery: 1839 Oil on canvas 57.1 by 46.7 centimetres (22.5 in × 18.4 in) Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois Gardens of the Van Rensselaer Manor House: 1840 Oil on canvas