Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Copley Fielding painting

A Scene on the Coast, Merionethshire - Storm Passing Off
by Copley Fielding (1787 - 1855)
1818, oil on canvas, 52.99" x 78.27"
Fielding was an English painter; born in Sowerby, West Yorkshire.

Thursday, August 25, 2016

Edmund Marriner Gill painting

Falls in the Clyde Corry Lynn
by Edmund Marriner Gill (1820–1894)
1866, oil on canvas, 27.95" x 33.07"

Gill was an English landscape painter.

Monday, August 22, 2016

Literature Pick #102

A Country Idyl
by Sarah Knowles Bolton (1841-1916)
A romantic short story from the 1898 book A Country Idyl and Other Stories.

Friday, August 19, 2016

David Johnson painting

Brook Study at Warwick
by David Johnson (1827-1908)
1873
Johnson was a Hudson River School artist, he was born in New York City, New York.

Thursday, August 11, 2016

Eilif Peterssen painting

Summer Night
by Eilif Peterssen (1852-1928)
1886, oil on canvas, 59.4" x 52.4"
Peterssen was born in Christiania, Norway

Sunday, July 31, 2016

Jean-Léon Gérôme painting

Summer Afternoon on a Lake
by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904)
circa 1895, oil on canvas
Gérôme was born in Vesoul, Haute-Saône, France.

Monday, July 25, 2016

Edward Frederick Ertz artwork

The Harbour, Polperro
by Edward Frederick Ertz (1862-1954)
circa 1910s

Saturday, July 16, 2016

Adalbert Waagen painting

Mountain Scene
by Adalbert Waagen (1833-1898)
Oil on Canvas, 9.6" × 12.4"
Waagen was born in Munich, Germany.

Friday, July 8, 2016

Louise Rayner painting

The East Gate at Warwick
by Louise Rayner (1832-1924)
Watercolor heightened with bodycolor, 9.4" x 6.7"
Rayner was born in Matlock Bath in Derbyshire, England.

Thursday, July 7, 2016

Charles Leslie painting

Landscape
by Charles Leslie (1839–1886)
Oil on Canvas, 12" x 24"
Leslie was an English landscape painter, he was born in the Islington borough of London.

Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Henry John Boddington painting

Devonshire
by Henry John Boddington (1811-1865)
Oil on canvas, 29" x 42"
Boddington was born in London, England.

Saturday, June 25, 2016

William Trost Richards painting

Rocky Cliff with Stormy Sea, Cornwall
by William Trost Richards (1833-1905)
1902, oil on canvas, 18" x 24"
Richards was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Friday, June 17, 2016

Literature Pick #101

High Man
by Jay Clarke
An amusing science fiction short story from the June 1954 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction.

Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Alfred Jacob Miller painting

Lake Scene
by Alfred Jacob Miller (1810–1874)
Between 1858 and 1860, watercolor on paper, 9.2" × 12.3"
Miller was an American artist, born in Baltimore, Maryland.

Saturday, June 11, 2016

Prints of Tintern Abbey by Frederick Calvert

The Grand West Entrance of Tintern Abbey
by Frederick Calvert
A view of the ruins of the interior of Tintern Abbey showing the remains of the vaunted roof, the ornate windows and sightseers.
1815, color print on aquatint

South Window of Tintern Abbey
A view of the interior of he ruins of Tintern Abbey, showing several sightseers wandering around.
1815, color print on aquatint

North View of Tintern Abbey
A view of the ruins of Tintern Abbey from the opposite bank of the River Wye, showing boats on the river and fishermen in the foreground.
1815, color print on aquatint

South East View of Tintern Abbey
A view of the overgrown ruins of Tintern Abbey. A woman and child can be seen in the foreground, and mountains and the river Wye can be seen behind the abbey.

1815, color print on aquatint