Dirk’s Comments (group member since Feb 02, 2022)

Dirk’s comments from the Art Lovers part 3 group.

George Inness
(1825 - 1894)

George Inness was an American landscape painter. Now recognized as one of the most influential American artists of the nineteenth century, Inness was influenced by the Hudson River School at the start of his career. He also studied the Old Masters, and artists of the Barbizon school during later trips to Europe. There he was introduced to the theology of Emanuel Swedenborg, which was significant for him; he expressed that spiritualism in the works of his maturity (1879–1894).


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_...


A Winter Sky
1866
Oil on canvas
82 x 102 cm
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, United States
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1927...

Anna Ancher
(1859 - 1935)

Anna Ancher was a Danish artist associated with the Skagen Painters, an artist colony on the northern point of Jylland, Denmark. She is considered to be one of Denmark's greatest visual artists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_An...


Høstarbejdere (Harvesters)
1905
Oil on canvas
56.2 x 43.4 cm
Skagens Museum, Skagen, Denmark

David Hockney
(b. 1937)

David Hockney is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_H...



Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)
1972
Acrylic on canvas
213 x 305 cm
Private collection
Sold at Christie’s, November 2018
https://www.christies.com/en/stories/...
In November 2018, This painting sold for US$90.3 million, at that time the highest price ever paid at auction for a painting by a living artist.

Francesco Lojacono
(1838 - 1915)

Francesco Lojacono or Lo Jacono was an Italian painter, mainly of landscapes and seascapes, and mainly active in his native Palermo, Sicily.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances...


The Unexpected Arrival
1883
oil on panel
119.5 x 239.5 cm.
Quirinale Palace, Rome, Italy
https://palazzo.quirinale.it/palazzo_...
Because of this painting Lojacono became known as “The Sun Thief”

Frederick Judd Waugh
(1861 - 1940)

Frederick Judd Waugh was an American artist, primarily known as a marine artist. During World War I, he designed ship camouflage for the U.S. Navy, under the direction of Everett L. Warner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederi...


Amber, Jade, and Amethyst
Oil on canvas
150 x 119.5 cm
Reading Public Museum, Reading, United States
https://www.readingpublicmuseum.org/

Arkhip Kuindzhi
(1841 - 1910)

Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi was a Russian landscape painter.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkhip_...


Red Sunset on the Dnipro
1905-1908
134.6  × 188 cm
Oil on canvas
The MET
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collect...

Albert Edelfelt
1859 - 1924)

Albert Gustaf Aristides Edelfelt was a Finnish painter noted for his naturalistic style and Realist approach to art. He lived in the Grand Duchy of Finland and made Finnish culture visible abroad, before Finland gained independence. He was considered the greatest Finnish artist of the second half of 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries, and one of the most prominent contributors to the Golden Age of Finnish Art.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_...


Kaukola Ridge at Sunset
1890
Oil on canvas
116.5 × 83 cm
Ateneum art museum, Helsinki, Finland
https://www.kansallisgalleria.fi/en/o...

Jules Breton
(1827- 1906)

Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton was a 19th-century French naturalist painter. His paintings are heavily influenced by the French countryside and his absorption of traditional methods of painting helped make him one of the primary transmitters of the beauty and idyllic vision of rural existence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_B...


The Tired Gleaner
1880
oil on fabric
94 x 63.8 cm
The Cleveland Museum of Art
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1915...

Caspar David Friedrich
(1774- 1840)

Caspar David Friedrich was a German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation, whose often symbolic, and anti-classical work, conveys a subjective, emotional response to the natural world. Friedrich's paintings often set contemplative human figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees or Gothic ruins. Art historian Christopher John Murray described their presence, in diminished perspective, amid expansive landscapes, as reducing the figures to a scale that directs "the viewer's gaze towards their metaphysical dimension".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_...


Woman in front of Setting Sun
circa 1818
Oil on canvas
22 x 30 cm
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
https://sammlung-online.museum-folkwa...

Knud Baade
(1808- 1879)

Knud Baade was a Norwegian painter, mostly of portraits and landscapes. He was particularly known for his moonlight paintings which are characterized by strong and dramatic contrasts between light and shadow

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knud_Baade


Bird Mountain, Hestmandø
1844
Oil on canvas
80 x 115 cm
Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum, Tromsø, Norway
https://digitaltmuseum.no/02104799610...

Aleksei Mikhailovich Gritsai
(1914 - 1998)

Aleksei Gritsai is a People's Artist of the USSR and is best known for his unique, incredible landscapes. Gritsai has pursued significant reforms in the art and culture of the mid-1950s in the Soviet Union and reflected these changes in his work. At some point of his career, the artist has rejected monumental compositions, carefully thought-out plots, totalitarian propaganda, formulas of Socialist Realism and false sentimental themes in favour of contemplation of the nature and comprehension of the world through poetic motives of the Russian landscape.

https://russianartgallery.org/invento...


April. The Sun Is Going Down
1973
Oil on canvas
79.5 x 49.7 cm.
The Institute of Russian Realist Art (IRRA), Moskva, Russia

Eugène Boudin
(1824-1898)

Eugène Louis Boudin was one of the first French landscape painters to paint outdoors. Boudin was a marine painter, and expert in the rendering of all that goes upon the sea and along its shores. His pastels, summary and economic, garnered the splendid eulogy of Baudelaire; and Corot called him the "King of the skies".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugène_...


Le Havre: The Outer Harbor at Sunset
1882
Oil on canvas
54.5 x 74.5 cm
Museum Barberini, Potsdam, Germany
https://sammlung.museum-barberini.de/...

Albrecht Dürer
(1831 - 1913)

Albrecht Dürer was a German painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance. Born in Nuremberg, Dürer established his reputation and influence across Europe in his twenties due to his high-quality woodcut prints. He was in contact with the major Italian artists of his time, including Raphael, Giovanni Bellini and Leonardo da Vinci, and from 1512 was patronized by Emperor Maximilian I.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albrech...


Landscape with a Woodland Pool
1497
water and bodycolour on paper

30 × 22 cm.
The British Museum, London
https://www.bmimages.com/preview.asp?...

Dürer was the first artist to recognize the expressive potential of watercolour. Indeed, his work as a landscape artist in the medium led to its adoption by other artists.

Fujishima Takeji
1867–1943)

Fujishima Takeji was a Japanese painter, noted for his work in developing Romanticism and impressionism within the yōga (Western-style) art movement in late 19th- and early 20th-century Japanese painting. In his later years, he was influenced by the Art Nouveau movement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujishi...


Sunrise over the Eastern Sea
1932
Oil on canvas
90 x 65 cm
Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation, Chuo City, Japan
https://www.artizon.museum/en/collect...

Frederic Edwin Church
(1826 - 1900)

Frederic Edwin Church was an American landscape painter born in Hartford, Connecticut. He was a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters, best known for painting large landscapes, often depicting mountains, waterfalls, and sunsets. Church's paintings put an emphasis on realistic detail, dramatic light, and panoramic views. He debuted some of his major works in single-painting exhibitions to a paying and often enthralled audience in New York City. In his prime, he was one of the most famous painters in the United States.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederi...


Cotopaxi
1862
Oil on canvas
121.9 × 215.9 cm
Detroit Institute of Arts
https://dia.org/collection/cotopaxi-3...

The painting depicts Cotopaxi, an active volcano that is also the second highest peak in modern-day Ecuador, spewing smoke and ash across a colorful sunrise. The work was commissioned by well-known philanthropist and collector James Lenox and was first exhibited in New York City in 1863.

Henry Ossawa Tanner
(1859 - 1937)

Henry Ossawa Tanner was an American artist who spent much of his career in France. He became the first African-American painter to gain international acclaim. Tanner moved to Paris, France, in 1891 to study at the Académie Julian and gained acclaim in French artistic circles. In 1923, the French government elected Tanner chevalier of the Legion of Honor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_O...


Sand Dunes at Sunset, Atlantic City
c. 1885
Oil on canvas
98.5 x 138 cm
The White House, Washington, United States
https://www.whitehousehistory.org/pho...

Nicholas Roerich
(1874- 1947)

Nikolai Konstantinovich Rerikh was a Russian painter, writer, archaeologist, theosophist, philosopher, and public figure. In his youth he was influenced by Russian Symbolism, a movement in Russian society centered on the spiritual. He was interested in hypnosis and other spiritual practices and his paintings are said to have hypnotic expression.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nichola...


Monhegan. Maine
1922
Tempera on canvas
76 x 50 cm
International Centre of the Roerichs, Moscow
https://icr.su/rus/katalog/10.php?i=2289

Josip Generalić
(1936 - 2004)

Josip Generalić (1935–2004) was a Croatian painter. His works can be found at the Croatian Museum of Naïve Art in Zagreb.

https://www.generalic.com/


sun of peace
1987
Oil paint on glass
94.2 x 130.9 cm
Galerija Josip Generalić, Koprivnica, Croatia

Today an older painting by a Danish artist, that is very similar to yesterday’s.
It’s not sure Carcano ever saw this painting but both men were of the same age and it is know that Philipsen visited Italy.

Theodor Philipsen
(1840 - 1920)

Theodor Esbern Philipsen was a Danish painter of Jewish ancestry; known for landscapes and animal portraits. He also did small figures in wax and clay.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor...


Long Shadows. Cattle on the Island of Saltholm
About 1890
Oil on canvas
81.5 x 61  cm
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/...

Filippo Carcano
(1840 - 1914)

Filippo Carcano was an Italian painter born in Milan, Italy. A pupil of Francesco Hayez at the Brera Academy in Milan as from 1855, he won the Canonica Prize with a work on a historical subject in 1862, while experimenting in the same period with painting from life. Carcano became friends with Francesco Filippini and Eugenio Gignous, with whom he would sometimes go to paint in Gignese. His interest in themes connected with reality is confirmed in subsequent works presenting scenes of an immediacy that reflects the contemporary developments in the field of the photography. One example is Break Time during Work on the Exhibition of 1881 (1887, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Milan), presented at the Esposizione Nazionale di Belle Arti di Milano in 1881.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filippo...


The Flock
1906
193 x 136,5 cm
Oil on canvas
Fondazione Cariplo, Milano, Italy
www.artgate-cariplo.it