Waning Summer, Willard Metcalf, oil on canvas, 24 x 24 in. ( 61 x 61 cm). Link is to Wikiart page. I don’t know the location of the original, I assume it’s in a provate collection.

Metcalf, an American Impressionist who was particularly adept at scenes of fall colors, finds that sweet spot in late summer when the greens are still a majority, but the fall colors are making their initial appearance.

The Brook in the Woods, Worthington Whittredge, oil on canvas, roughly 28 x 36 in. (71 x 91 cm), in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Whittredge was an American painter of the second generation Hudson RIver school active in the mid 19th and early 20th centuries.

He was fascinated with scenes of light making its way through the deep shadows of dense forest interiors. It was a subject he returned to many times.

Look at the depth he’s created with the light on more distant trunks behind the sihlouettes of the midground trees.

Compare this to The Trout Pool, also in the Met Museum.

The Japanese Scroll, James Tissot, oli on panel, roughly 15 x 2 in. (39 x 57 cm). Link is to image page on Wikimedia Commons, Original is in a private collection, image sourced form past Christie’s auction.

The soft light, informal pose and seemingly mundane subject matter might tempt us to think of this as a casual sketch, but it actually looks caresully ocmposed and executed. Tissot, noted for his paintings of society life, was well versed in the depiction of coltherng draperies and incidental furnishings.

I love the way he’s suggested the upside down and foreshortened. images on the scroll.