“The Poetry of Nature: A Golden Age of American Landscape Painting” is an exhibition on view at the Brandywine River Museum of Art in Chadds Ford, PA until June 12, 2016.

Organized from the collection of the New York Historical Society, the exhibition features beautiful and often large scale works by Hudson River School painters like Thomas Cole, Asher Durand, John F. Kensett, William Trost Richards, Sanford Gifford and Thomas Hotchkiss.

As if that wasn’t enough, the museum concurrently has on display an exhibit of newly acquired landscapes: “New Terrains: American Paintings from the Richard M. Scaife Bequest“, that runs until November 6, 2016 (images above, fourth and fifth from bottom).

In addition, the museum has done a superb job of complementing both of these with a newly rotated arrangement of its permanent collection of Brandywine Valley and other American landscapes (images above, bottom three), with two new acquisitions there including a stunning work by Herman Herzog (above, bottom).

Along with the usual amazing works from the permanent collection of N.C. Wyeth illustrations and other works from the Wyeth Family, it’s a knockout time to visit this gem of a small museum.

(Images above: Albert Bierstadt, William Trost Richards, Louisa Davis Minot, John Kensett, Asher B. Durand, John William Casilear, William Merritt Chase, Albert Bierstadt, William Trost Richards, Jasper Cropsey, Herman Herzog.)

Charles Joseph Grips was a Dutch born painter who spent much of his career in Belgium. Grips was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but his subject matter of quiet domestic interiors carries forward the flavor of Dutch genre painting of the 17th century.

Some of his compositions are particularly in the vein of De Hooch’s marvelous interiors, inviting you back into spaces beyond the foreground room.

Unfortunately, there aren’t many images of Grips’ works online, and only a few of those are reasonably large. Those that are, however, reveal that his interiors (like those of William Merritt Chase) also work beautifully as still life paintings.

“Illuminating Tarbell” is the title of an exhibition of the work of the terrific American painter Edmund Charles Tarbell that is on view at Discover Portsmouth, in Portsmouth NH until June 3, 2016. It features a concurrent exhibit of contemporary painters working in the tradition of Tarbell.

There is a page with images from the show, that are nice sized when enlarged or downloaded.

There is also a book: Illuminating Tarbell: Life and Art on the Piscataqua and Legacy in Action, available online from the museum website.

There is an article about the show on InCollect.

For more, see my previous Lines and Colors posts on Edmund Tarbell.