Search results for: “Frederic Edwin Church”
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Walter Launt Palmer
American Impressionist painter Walter Launt Palmer studied formally with Charles Loring Elliott, but received his most influential instruction in landscape painting from Frederick Edwin Church, who was a friend of his father, sculptor Erastus Dow Palmer. He was also exposed to other noted artists in the circle, including John Frederick Kensett. Walter Palmer also studied…
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Sadie J. Valeri
Value, the quality of light or dark in a tone or color, is one of the most undervalued, misunderstood and vitally important aspects of painting. Sadie J. Valeri is a contemporary realist painter who has followed a fascination with value into a series of challenging still life subjects in which wax paper, a humble household…
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George Loftus Noyes
George Loftus Noyes was an American painter, born in Canada of American parents, who started painting at an early age, and became a noted landscape painter in the Boston area just after the turn of the 20th Century. Noyes studied with English artist George Bartlett in Boston, and later studied in Paris at the ateliers…
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Albert Bierstadt
By the time Albert Bierstadt began painting his dramatic landscapes in the middle of the 19th Century, the mountains of New York’s Hudson valley, once the epitome of the American wilderness, had been widely portrayed by two generations of painters, from Thomas Cole and Asher Durand to Frederick Church, John Frederick Kensett and the Luminists.…
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Carbonmatter (Dan Wheaton)
Carbonmatter is the web site name and professional nickname of matte painter and concept artist Dan Wheaton. Wheaton has worked as an illustrator, designer and creative director for a variety of companies in print and interactive design, but the real focus of his career has been on his love for movies and gaming, particularly those…
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George Inness
At a time when his fellow Hudson River painters were searching for the most wild, untamed and and dramatic landscape subjects they could find (or sometimes combine and invent, in the case of Frederic Church), George Inness chose to paint settled and cultivated lands, the farms and fields in which both God and man had…