#americanart

[enchantedbook]

'The Poet's Dream' by Robert Walter Weir, 1830.

[skf-fineart]

Gertrude Abercrombie (1909 - 1977)

"Levitation", 1964

Oil on Masonite, 7.81 x 9.81 in.

[usarthistory]

Gilbert Stuart

American painter (b. 1755, North Kingstown, d. 1828, Boston)

George Washington 1795 Oil on canvas, 77 64 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Stuart wanted to paint Washington, for he expected that he could make a "fortune" on images of the Revolutionary War hero and American leader. At the time the president sat for Stuart, the artist apparently tried to relax his sitter, offering, "Now, sir, you must let me forget that you are General Washington and that I am Stuart, the painter," to which the president responded, “Mr. Stuart need never feel the need for forgetting who he is and who General Washington is.” After Stuart's initial portrait of Washington, he made more than one hundred copies for American and European patrons eager to own an image of the illustrious sitter. They were of three types: a waist-length Vaughan version showing the right side of Washington's face; an Athenaeum variant displaying the left side; and a full-length Landsdowne example. The artist promised to give Martha Washington the original canvas of the Athenaeum portrait used to make the copies but unfortunately never kept his word.

[mazzmazzy]

Edward Hopper (1882-1967) - Small Town Station

[museoprivado]

Alice Neel. Hartley (1966) @ngadc

[cma-american-painting-sculpture]

Nathaniel Olds, Jeptha Homer Wade , 1837, Cleveland Museum of Art: American Painting and Sculpture

The green-tinted spectacles worn by Olds were designed to protect the eyes from the intensity of Argand lamps, a type of indoor light used during the early 1800s. These lamps burned whale oil, and many people worried that its bright flames might damage eyesight.The painter of this portrait founded the Western Union Telegraph Company in 1854 and soon became one of Cleveland's wealthiest industrialists. His grandson, Jeptha Wade II, was a founder of the Cleveland Museum of Art and donated the land upon which it stands as a Christmas gift to the city in 1892. Size: Framed: 87 x 71.8 x 5.7 cm (34 1/4 x 28 1/4 x 2 1/4 in.); Unframed: 76.5 x 61.2 cm (30 1/8 x 24 1/8 in.) Medium: oil on canvas

https://clevelandart.org/art/1991.134.2

[photoshoparthouse]

.C. Leyendecker: The Artist Behind America's Most Elegant Illustrations

Before Norman Rockwell became a household name, J.C. Leyendecker was America's premier illustrator. His distinctive brushwork, sophisticated compositions, and iconic Arrow Collar Man helped define the visual culture of early twentieth-century America.

What fascinates me most is how visible every brushstroke remains. Up close, the marks feel abstract. Step back, and they become skin, fabric, metal, and form. Few artists have ever balanced abstraction and realism so beautifully.

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