Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Hudson River Landscapes at Peabody Essex
The Hudson River School is a collective name for two generations of painters working in the areas in and around the Hudson River Valley in New York who transformed American Art, and landscape painting in general, in the early part of the 19th Century. Painting the American Vision is the title of a new exhibition…
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LeConte Stewart
LeConte Stewart was an American painter active in the 20th Century who spent most of his life portraying the landscape of his native state of Utah. Stewart studied art at the University of Utah, but also traveled to the East Coast to study with established artists there, notably John Fabian Carlson. I also see other…
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Lucian Freud
Painter Lucien Freud, a grandson of Sigmund Freud, was born in Berlin, moved to England with his parents when he was 10, and later became a British citizen. Freud became known for his intense portraits and figures, painted in brusque strokes of thick impasto and in a manner some call uncompromising, but I think of…
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Hiroshige’s One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
In the mid 19th Century the great Japanese print maker Utagawa Hiroshige (also known as Ando Hiroshige) created his most well known and influential series of prints, titled One Hundred Famous Views of Edo. These are considered to be among the greatest works in Japanese art. The Brooklyn Museum, which has a complete set in…
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Max Ginsburg
Max Ginsburg is a powerful painter whose depictions of street scenes and city life resonate with humanity and the drama of daily life, as well as evoking the texture and vibrancy of the visual elements that make up the cityscape in which his subjects live and move. Though he had formal instruction, Ginsburg learned much…
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Terry Strickland
Terry Strickland is a Birmingham, Alabama based painter who studied Graphic Design at the University of Central Florida. Before transitioning into gallery painting full time, she worked in turns as an illustrator, silk screen artist, courtroom sketch artist and teacher. Strickland primarily paints portraits, though not as a commission portrait artist, but rather one who…