For those who could write, letter writing was a very common pastime. Not only was it a way to while away the time but, for most, it was the only […]
oil on canvas
Untitled
Untitled (Manaus – Amazonas)
Two Riders
Le repas froid pendant la chasse (The Hunt Picnic)
Sunset, Haywagon in the Distance
This is one of over a hundred surviving paintings that Martin Johnson Heade painted of the marshes all along the Eastern coast of the United States. This was one of […]
Holding the Line at All Hazards
Walt Whitman (1819-1892), one of America’s best-known poets, served as a volunteer nurse during the American Civil War. From the Union side he wrote many poems about the war. This […]
Female Figure
Le Village d’Éragny (The Village of Éragny)
Largely self-taught, Camille Pissarro was the only painter to exhibit work in all eight of the Impressionists exhibitions from 1874 to 1886. He knew and painted with the key members […]
Three For Five
J. G. Brown became famous for his numerous depictions of street urchins, including bootblacks, street musicians, and posy sellers. He found his young subjects on the streets of New York […]
Prison Scene from J. Fenimore Cooper’s “The Pilot”: “Cecelia Howard and Katherine Plowden arousing the prisoner Edward Griffith from his slumber.”
The Philadelphia painter Thomas Sully is best known for his portraits, having painted approximately two thousand in his long career. However, in the late 1830s, with portrait commissions drying up, […]