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Frederic Edwin Church (May 4, 1826 β April 7, 1900) was an American landscape painter who was a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters. Church was best known for painting large landscapes, often depicting mountains, waterfalls, and sunsets. His ...
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"Moonlight Seascape, Gloucester Harbor," Mary Blood Mellen, c. 1870s.
Mellen (1819-86) was the major female member of the Hudson River School, a group of artists of the 19th century who specialized in sweeping Romantic-style landscapes of North America.
Born in Massachusetts, she learned to paint early on, but her marriage to the Universalist Rev. Mellen was a turning point. The couple became acquainted with Fitz Henry Lane, a great painter and teacher, and through him she developed her skill and talent.
New England, especially the coastal areas of Massachusetts and Maine, were her specialty, including a number of marine subjects. Most of her work is undated so we can only guess at when it was painted, but it is known she collaborated with Lane several times.
After her husband's death in 1866 she moved to Hartford, CT, supporting herself with her work, which was evidently popular. Her passing from typhoid generated a number of complimentary obits, praising her work.
From a private collection.
#Art #MaryBloodMellen #HudsonRiverSchool #AmericanArt #WomenArtists #Moonlight
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"Moonlight Seascape, Gloucester Harbor," Mary Blood Mellen, c. 1870s.
Mellen (1819-86) was the major female member of the Hudson River School, a group of artists of the 19th century who specialized in sweeping Romantic-style landscapes of North America.
Born in Massachusetts, she learned to paint early on, but her marriage to the Universalist Rev. Mellen was a turning point. The couple became acquainted with Fitz Henry Lane, a great painter and teacher, and through him she developed her skill and talent.
New England, especially the coastal areas of Massachusetts and Maine, were her specialty, including a number of marine subjects. Most of her work is undated so we can only guess at when it was painted, but it is known she collaborated with Lane several times.
After her husband's death in 1866 she moved to Hartford, CT, supporting herself with her work, which was evidently popular. Her passing from typhoid generated a number of complimentary obits, praising her work.
From a private collection.
#Art #MaryBloodMellen #HudsonRiverSchool #AmericanArt #WomenArtists #Moonlight
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"Moonlight Seascape, Gloucester Harbor," Mary Blood Mellen, c. 1870s.
Mellen (1819-86) was the major female member of the Hudson River School, a group of artists of the 19th century who specialized in sweeping Romantic-style landscapes of North America.
Born in Massachusetts, she learned to paint early on, but her marriage to the Universalist Rev. Mellen was a turning point. The couple became acquainted with Fitz Henry Lane, a great painter and teacher, and through him she developed her skill and talent.
New England, especially the coastal areas of Massachusetts and Maine, were her specialty, including a number of marine subjects. Most of her work is undated so we can only guess at when it was painted, but it is known she collaborated with Lane several times.
After her husband's death in 1866 she moved to Hartford, CT, supporting herself with her work, which was evidently popular. Her passing from typhoid generated a number of complimentary obits, praising her work.
From a private collection.
#Art #MaryBloodMellen #HudsonRiverSchool #AmericanArt #WomenArtists #Moonlight
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"Moonlight Seascape, Gloucester Harbor," Mary Blood Mellen, c. 1870s.
Mellen (1819-86) was the major female member of the Hudson River School, a group of artists of the 19th century who specialized in sweeping Romantic-style landscapes of North America.
Born in Massachusetts, she learned to paint early on, but her marriage to the Universalist Rev. Mellen was a turning point. The couple became acquainted with Fitz Henry Lane, a great painter and teacher, and through him she developed her skill and talent.
New England, especially the coastal areas of Massachusetts and Maine, were her specialty, including a number of marine subjects. Most of her work is undated so we can only guess at when it was painted, but it is known she collaborated with Lane several times.
After her husband's death in 1866 she moved to Hartford, CT, supporting herself with her work, which was evidently popular. Her passing from typhoid generated a number of complimentary obits, praising her work.
From a private collection.
#Art #MaryBloodMellen #HudsonRiverSchool #AmericanArt #WomenArtists #Moonlight
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"Moonlight Seascape, Gloucester Harbor," Mary Blood Mellen, c. 1870s.
Mellen (1819-86) was the major female member of the Hudson River School, a group of artists of the 19th century who specialized in sweeping Romantic-style landscapes of North America.
Born in Massachusetts, she learned to paint early on, but her marriage to the Universalist Rev. Mellen was a turning point. The couple became acquainted with Fitz Henry Lane, a great painter and teacher, and through him she developed her skill and talent.
New England, especially the coastal areas of Massachusetts and Maine, were her specialty, including a number of marine subjects. Most of her work is undated so we can only guess at when it was painted, but it is known she collaborated with Lane several times.
After her husband's death in 1866 she moved to Hartford, CT, supporting herself with her work, which was evidently popular. Her passing from typhoid generated a number of complimentary obits, praising her work.
From a private collection.
#Art #MaryBloodMellen #HudsonRiverSchool #AmericanArt #WomenArtists #Moonlight
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CT preservationists look to save a Civil War-era stone house
As contractors build houses closer and closer to β¦
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"Valley of the Yosemite," Albert Bierstadt, 1864.
Prussian-born Bierstadt (1830-1902) became one of America's most acclaimed artists for his visual chronicles of the American West, in a time before it was opened up by railways.
He studied painting in the Dusseldorf school, then joined the Hudson River School before taking his first journey west in 1859. From then on, he became famous for his paintings of the untouched frontiers to the west, most of which were fairly romanticized, but at the same time, he was trying to preserve an idea of what the land was like before the influx of travelers, as railroads were built.
He had a lot of commercial success, but after the Civil War ended, his work began to be viewed as overly theatrical, and by the 1890s he had fallen out of favor; a fire in his studio destroyed a number of his paintings as well. When he passed away he was nearly forgotten.
In the 1960s, though, he was rediscovered, & there's still some controversy...some still regard his work as "soulless" and overly theatrical and romantic, while others view his work as supporting the early conservation movement and the creation of the national park system. I kinda like the romanticism myself.
From the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
#Art #AlbertBierstadt #HudsonRIverSchool #Yosemite #Luminism #Landscape #ROmanticism
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"A Gorge in the Mountains (Kauterskill Clove)," Sanford Robinson Gifford, 1862.
Gifford (1823-1880) was a leader of the second generation of the Hudson River School, and also a leading practitioner of the Luminism style, which focused on soft light effects.
Although he traveled extensively to find great landscapes to paint, his most effective work was often done close to his New York home, such as this picture of a real gorge in the Catskills (although it's really called Kaaterskill Clove...). In later years he considered this one of his "chief pictures."
Kaaterskill Clove was, and is, popular with hikers and artists, and even in the 19th century it was quite a tourist spot, with the town of Palenville trying to pass itself off as the home of Rip van Winkle!
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
#Art #AmericanArt #HudsonRiverSchool #Luminism #SanfordRobinsonGifford #KaaterskillClove