Blogs

landscape painting

Filter

Topics

Most Popular

art education Davis Desk art resources free resources free art resources online teaching Quaranteaching contests African American History Month 2021 High School Art Art funding SchoolArts Magazine grant writing SchoolArts Mail Art Self Care elementary resource books drawing

Tags

21st-century skills Art Education in Practice Series Art education resources Art Teachers Show Pride careers in the visual arts critical thinking skills distance learning Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Resources five-step creative process free art resources free resources High School Art higher-order thinking skills K12ArtChat the podcast LGBTQ+ LGBTQI+ Mail Art mindful art making mindfulness online teaching Pride Pride Month 2020 Professional Learning Network (PLN) Protect Trans Kids Pushing the Envelope Pushing the Envelope, Quaranteaching safe environments safe zones Self Care self-care for art teachers studio habits of mind teaching from home therapeutic approaches twenty-first century skills
Curator's Corner

Artist Birthday: Fitz Henry Lane

Thursday, December 18, 2025 | Karl Cole

At the same time the Hudson River School was flourishing in the Northeast US, some artists sought to add a spiritual aspect to American landscape painting by concentrating on light and atmosphere. ...

Read Article
Curator's Corner

Yay! Winter is Here!

Monday, December 15, 2025 | Karl Cole

We already had our first and second snowfalls and they created a lovely, white landscape all over. Autumn and winter are my favorite seasons of the year, so you know I won’t be moving to Flo ...

Read Article
Curator's Corner

Artist Birthday: William Trost Richards

Friday, November 14, 2025 | Karl Cole

There is nothing more remarkably peace-inducing than a beautiful seascape painting. William Trost Richards was renowned for his beautiful coastal seascapes of the New England coast in all sorts of ...

Read Article
Curator's Corner

Artist Birthday: Homer Dodge Martin

Tuesday, October 28, 2025 | Karl Cole

In the mid- to late-1800s, there many American artists like Homer Dodge Martin who adapted the romantic element of Hudson River School painting, with the contemporary interest in misty atmosphere ...

Read Article
Curator's Corner

An October Gem: John La Farge

Monday, October 20, 2025 | Karl Cole

John La Farge is a fascinating and multi-faceted artist in late 1800s American art. Trained in painting, he branched out into mural painting, and particularly stained glass. In fact, La Farge received ...

Read Article
Curator's Corner

Late Summer Idyll with Pierre Bonnard

Monday, August 18, 2025 | Karl Cole

Loving landscape and pure, bright colors as I do, naturally I am absolutely crazy about the landscapes of Pierre Bonnard. He has been variously called Neo-Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and the Na ...

Read Article
Curator's Corner

Artist Birthday: Alvan Fisher

Friday, August 8, 2025 | Karl Cole

At the time Alvan Fisher began painting landscapes, the Hudson River School had not yet formed in New England. Fisher was among less than a handful of artists who were dedicated to landscape painting. ...

Read Article
Curator's Corner

World Watercolor Month: Donald Holden

Friday, July 11, 2025 | Karl Cole

World Watercolor Month began in 2016 as a way to honor the watercolor artists from all over the world. The art of Donald Holden is truly a fitting tribute to this artform, which in many ways can be ve ...

Read Article
Curator's Corner

Artist Birthday: Francisco Oller y Cestero

Tuesday, June 17, 2025 | Karl Cole

Like many of the countries colonized by the Spanish during the 1400s and 1500s, Puerto Rico has had a rich artistic culture. Spanish culture overran the native Taino culture, and established an artist ...

Read Article
Curator's Corner

AAPI Heritage Month 2025: Tadashi Sato

Monday, May 19, 2025 | Karl Cole

In celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, I’m featuring the work of Tadashi Sato. Sato was an American artist of Japanese descent who introduced traditional Japanese ...

Read Article
Curator's Corner

Artist Birthday: Thomas Gainsborough

Wednesday, May 14, 2025 | Karl Cole

Thomas Gainsborough’s art was the epitome of the elegant, sophisticated and generally low-key Rococo style that characterized late 1700s British art. It was a major contrast to the flamboyant, o ...

Read Article
Curator's Corner

Artist Birthday: George Elmer Browne

Tuesday, May 6, 2025 | Karl Cole

George Elmer Browne was an American painter, one of the many who, in the late 1800s, studied painting in Paris at the height of the Impressionist period. His West End School of Art in Provincetown, Ma ...

Read Article
Curator's Corner

Gem of the Month: Pasquale Santo

Monday, May 5, 2025 | Karl Cole

I had a sudden “beauty attack” last week when I looked closely at this artist’s work for the first time. Being a painter myself, I am always flabbergasted by how many artists come an ...

Read Article
Curator's Corner

Artist Birthday: Nōguchi Shōhin

Tuesday, February 25, 2025 | Karl Cole

The painting style that evolved during the Southern Song Dynasty is considered by scholars to have been the classic example of Chinese monochromatic painting, particularly the "literati" sty ...

Read Article
Curator's Corner

Artist Birthday: Jasper Cropsey

Tuesday, February 18, 2025 | Karl Cole

This large-scale painting was executed from memory while Cropsey was in London. It is sometimes considered one of the last great works of a school of painting that fell into decline after the Civil Wa ...

Read Article
Curator's Corner

Art for National Peach Month 2024

Monday, August 19, 2024 | Karl Cole

August was first declared National Peach Month in the United States in 1982. Since August is the month when peaches are supposed to be at their peak ripeness, let’s look at some works of art tha ...

Read Article

Topics

Share

Most Popular

art education Davis Desk art resources free resources free art resources online teaching Quaranteaching contests High School Art African American History Month 2021 funding grant writing SchoolArts Magazine Art SchoolArts Self Care Mail Art high school elementary Pushing the Envelope drawing resource books photography sculpture Expressionism Curators Corner art advocacy Art education resources Artists with Disabilities art integration Mexican art Ancient Mexico Mexico ceramics Mesoamerican art art careers Harlem Renaissance African American art Two Centuries of Black American Art Pride lithography lithograph mindful art making teaching from home mindfulness therapeutic approaches Art Education in Practice Series distance learning Art Acts self-care for art teachers student art studio habits of mind careers in the visual arts twenty-first century skills women artists 21st-century skills Disability Pride Month Japanese art Asian art painting

Tags

21st-century skills Art Education in Practice Series Art education resources Art Teachers Show Pride careers in the visual arts critical thinking skills distance learning Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Resources five-step creative process free art resources free resources High School Art higher-order thinking skills K12ArtChat the podcast LGBTQ+ LGBTQI+ Mail Art mindful art making mindfulness online teaching Pride Pride Month 2020 Professional Learning Network (PLN) Protect Trans Kids Pushing the Envelope Pushing the Envelope, Quaranteaching safe environments safe zones Self Care self-care for art teachers studio habits of mind teaching from home therapeutic approaches twenty-first century skills

Always Stay in the Loop

Want to know what’s new from Davis? Subscribe to our mailing list for periodic updates on new products, contests, free stuff, and great content.

Back to top