Tag Archives: Landscapes

1918: No Bigger than a Bumble-Bee

Posted on August 11, 2017 by corvusfugit

There are some curious old stories told in the Scotch Highlands about dreams. It was believed that when asleep the mind or soul of the sleeper leaves his body and goes far afield, and when he awakes he recalls his … Continue reading →

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1890: Castle

Posted on August 10, 2017 by corvusfugit

The castle, Hohenzollern, Germany; photochrom print published between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900 by the Detroit Publishing Co. (source)

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1865: Northern Lights

Posted on July 30, 2017 by corvusfugit

Frederic Edwin Church: Aurora Borealis (1865) “Some art historians have suggested that Church painted Aurora Borealis as a subdued tribute to the end of the Civil War, with the drapery of auroral light forming an abstract representation of the American … Continue reading →

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1893: Sketch

Posted on July 29, 2017 by corvusfugit

Petrus Van der Velden: sketchbook drawing (1893) (source)

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1863: Donkey

Posted on July 28, 2017 by corvusfugit

Thomas Baker: A Donkey in a Landscape (1863)

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1902: Voulangis

Posted on July 23, 2017 by corvusfugit

Edward J. Steichen: Voulangis (1900-1902)

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1883: Two Versions of the Same Tree

Posted on July 20, 2017 by corvusfugit

James Hey Davies: Study of an Ash Tree in Summer (1883) Study of an Ash Tree in Winter (1883)

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1889: Ravine

Posted on July 16, 2017 by corvusfugit

Vincent van Gogh: Ravine (1889) At the Boston Museum of Fine Arts

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1830: Paysage Suisse

Posted on July 10, 2017 by corvusfugit

Alexandre Calame: Swiss Landscape (c. 1830)

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1920: Thomas Shields Clarke Leaves his Autochromes

Posted on July 3, 2017 by corvusfugit

The Autochrome Lumière—patented in 1903 by the brothers Lumière in France and first marketed in 1907—was the first method of making color photographs, and quickly become popular among amateur photographers like Thomas Shields Clarke, an American painter and … Continue reading →

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