The late 19th century is one of my favorite periods for art. Not only were a great many of my favorite artists active in that time but I’m constantly discovering artists from the period who are wonderful and new to me. Wikimedia Commons, that cornucopia Read More …
Lowell Birge Harrison was an American landscape painter, active the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was associated with the Tonalist school and was noted for the play of light in his winter landscapes and atmospheric cityscapes. He studied initially at the Pennsylvania Academy Read More …
Henry Ossawa Tanner was a superb American painter, active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who I first wrote about in 2012. Since then, I’m happy to report, online resources for viewing his work have expanded considerably, notably on The Athenaeum and Wikimedia Read More …
Philadelphia based artist Patrick Connors Studied at the University of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. To my eye, the influence of the legacy Thomas Eakins left to the Academy — and to the city of Philadelphia — is visible in Connors’ Read More …
Cecilia Beaux — an American portrait painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries — is, like her contemporaries John Singer Sargent and William Merritt Chase, receiving something of a revival of appreciation for her place in the history American Art. Unlike them, Read More …