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Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction in painting of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, rivers, trees, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a coherent composition. In other works, landscape backgrounds for figures can still form an important part of ...
Avid hiker and early member of the Appalachian Mountain Club, she is known for light-filled landscapes that exude serenity. Julie Hart Beers: More images: 1835 13 August 1913 One of the few women of the Hudson River School to be commercially successful, she painted sweeping, well-balanced compositions with telling details. Albert Fitch Bellows ...
Thomas Hill (1829–1908) Mount Lafayette in Winter 1870. White Mountain art is the body of work created during the 19th century by over four hundred artists who painted landscape scenes of the White Mountains of New Hampshire in order to promote the region and, consequently, sell their works of art.
Thomas Cole (1801–1848), The Oxbow, View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm (1836), Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Hudson River School was a mid-19th-century American art movement embodied by a group of landscape painters whose aesthetic vision was influenced by Romanticism.
Swiss Mountain Scene (or Rocky Mountain Scene) 1859 Oil on canvas 60 cm × 85 cm (23.6 in × 33.5 in) Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University IAP 35010066: view: The Trout Brook: 1859: Oil on academy board: 23.2 cm × 29.8 cm (9.1 in × 11.7 in) Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA [2]: 335 IAP 20780420: Approaching Storm ...
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Genesee Scenery: 1847 Oil on canvas 130.8 by 99.7 centimetres (51.5 in × 39.3 in) Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Rhode Island [128] Home in the Woods: 1847 Oil on canvas 168 by 112.7 centimetres (66.1 in × 44.4 in) Reynolda House Museum of American Art, North Carolina [129] The Good Shepherd: 1848 Oil on canvas
Shan shui painting is a kind of painting which goes against the common definition of what a painting is. Shan shui painting refutes color, light and shadow and personal brush work. Shan shui painting is not an open window for the viewer's eye, it is an object for the viewer's mind. Shan shui painting is more like a vehicle of philosophy. [6]