Artist Birthday: Homer Dodge Martin
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 ...
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Arctic Ice Day: Frederic Church
Frederic Church, the Hudson River School painter became fascinated with the nature of the Arctic in the 1860s when there began to develop many expeditions from both European and American explorers to ...
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Artist Birthday: William Bradford
William Bradford was part of the first generation of a home-grown landscape painting school, which evolved out of the Hudson River School development in the Northeast. His specialty was maritime scene ...
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Artist Birthday: Jasper Cropsey
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 ...
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Autumn: Sanford Robinson Gifford
Being a painter who loves to paint landscapes, my inclination when summer turns into fall is to show a painting, naturally. And, in my mind, no artists captured Autumn better than the artists of the H ...
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