Starting in the late Renaissance, the Dutch republic prospered greatly off of their international maritime trade. The International Maritime Organization emphasizes World Maritime Day every year on th ...
Read ArticleRaymond Pettibon’s influential body of work engages a wide spectrum of American iconography. Intermixing image and text, his drawings engage the visual rhetorics of popular and commercial cultur ...
Read ArticleI’m not sure I’d want to loll around on a beach in street clothes, but, there is definitely something very relaxing about spending a day at the beach! And there is something very soothing ...
Read ArticleAt 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 ArticleThere 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 ArticleIt was on this day in 1789 that Congress established funding in support of building of lighthouses, beacons, buoys and public piers. On August 7 of 1989, National Lighthouse Day was established by ...
Read ArticleWilliam 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 ...
Read ArticleAntonio Frasconi is an internationally known woodcut artist. He has published hundreds of prints and illustrated many books. Although much of his work has registered political protest, his subjects ra ...
Read ArticleIn the 1870s, Bricher concentrated almost entirely on marine views up and down the New England coastline. This view of an unnamed bay sums up the combination of influences on his landscape painting. H ...
Read ArticleStill yearning for warmer weather, my thoughts in spring always turn to paintings of nature. When asked to think of work by American realist Winslow Homer, of which of his genres do you think? Illustr ...
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