Search results for: “Anna Richards Brewster”
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Anna Richards Brewster in American Art Review
Another quick magazine mention. Anna Richards Brewster, an under-sung American painter who I profiled recently, is featured in a 10-page article in the October, 2008 Issue of American Art Review. For $6 (U.S.), you get a nice overview of her work and 20 images. The article bears the same title as the current traveling exhibit,…
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Anna Richards Brewster
When looking at the history of art, which in may ways reflects social history, I can’t help but think about how many potentially terrific artists we’ve been denied because women were discouraged or actively prohibited from being artists. Anna Richards Brewster was active at the turn of the 20th Century, a time when it was…
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A Mine of Beauty: Landscapes by William Trost Richards
William Trost Richards, one of America’s foremost landscape and marine painters (and father of American Impressionist Anna Richards Brewster), had a patron named George Whitney, who lived near him in Philadelphia and supported him not only by purchasing his works on a regular basis, but by helping to finance Richards’ travels. While traveling and painting,…
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Artists’ views of Venice #2
This is a follow up to my previous article on Artists’ views of Venice, just to add more artists without an ungainly long string of images. It could have been five times as long. [Images above (links to my articles): JMW Turner (with detail), John Singer Sargent, Anna Richards Brewster, James Whistler, William Merritt Chase,…