The Sunset Book

A landscape a day, from art history, for the purposes of inspiration and reference.

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Sunny landscapes by Peder Mork Monsted (Danish, 1859-1941)

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Cair Paravel, by the amazing Justin Sweet, who did a ton of really beautiful Narnia pieces.

Justin Sweet's site

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Golden Lights in the Distant Forest, László Mednyánszky

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Ivan Aivazovsky, Darial Gorge, 1861

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Gustave Doré, Fairy Land, 1881

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Caspar David Friedrich, Cemetery in the Evening Twilight

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George Inness, Sunset in the Woods, 1891

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Storm, Ivan Aivazovsky, 1861

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Coyote Moonrise, Frank Tenney Johnson, 1920

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Favorite

Who's your favorite landscape artist in history? Contemporary?

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Catherine Bath, Sailing in an Ocean of Peach and Mauve, 2012

Another contemporary artist, with gallery found here.

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Cody DeLong, Deep in the Canyon, 2008

Love this guy's Stuff.

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Alexandre Calame, The Jungfrau, c. 1853-1855

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George Inness, Sunset, Etretat

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Albert Bierstadt, Storm in the Mountains, 1870

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Order Upon Chaos, Tom Scholes

One of my favorite artists.

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Summer Farmlands, Francis Boag