Showing posts with label Mountains. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mountains. Show all posts

December 31, 2011

Albert Bierstadt's "Sunset in the Rockies"

Nationality: German-American
Born-Died: 1830-1902

Creation Date: 1866
Media: Oil on canvas

November 26, 2011

Utagawa Hiroshige's "Night Snow at Kambara"

Nationality: Japanese
Born-Died: 1797-1854

Creation Date: 1834
Media: Woodblock print (ink on paper)

From the series The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido.


September 17, 2011

September 8, 2011

Gustave Doré's "First Ascent of the Matterhorn"

Nationality: French
Born/Died: 1832-1883

Creation Date: 1865
Media: Lithograph on paper

August 22, 2011

Hiroshige's "Clear Weather After Snow at Kameyama"

Nationality: Japanese
Born/Died: 1797-1858

Media: Woodblock print on paper

August 8, 2011

Thomas Cole's "The Voyage of Life: Manhood"

Nationality: American
Born/Died: 1801-1848
Creation Date: 1840
Size: 52.3 in × 78 in. (132.8 × 198.1 cm)
Media: Oil on canvas
Location: The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA



July 19, 2011

Rockwell Kent's "Maine Coast"

Nationality: American
Born/Died: 1882-1971
Creation Date: 1907
Size: 34 x 43.937 in. (86.4 x 111.7 cm)
Media: Oil on canvas
Location: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Photo by me.

May 4, 2011

Frederic Edwin Church "The Heart of the Andes"

On this Day in the History of Art: Frederic Edwin Church born (1826), Alexandre Benois born (1870), Franklin Carmichael born (1890), Ernest Hemingway receives Pulitzer Prize for "The Old Man and the Sea" (1953)

Nationality:
American
Born-Died: 1826 - 1900
Creation Date: 1859
Size: 68.125 × 119.25 in. (167.9 × 302.9 cm)
Media: Oil on canvas
Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, USA

One of the greatest paintings ever made. Enjoy browsing it's splendor. Detail photographs by me.

Frederic Church the Heart of the Andes

September 21, 2010

Frederic Church's "Cotopaxi"

Nationality: American 
Born-Died: 1780 - 1867 
Creation Date: 1862
Media: Oil on canvas 
Location: The Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, Michigan, USA