Joseph K. Myers, Spring 2003
Cadets from the Citadel on Rainbow Row, Charleston Harbor, at night.
born Jan. 14, 1841, Bourges, Fr. died March 2, 1895, Paris. Berthe Morisot was a French painter and the daughter of a high government official. She was influenced by Edouward Manet, and married Manet's younger brother. 1872 Oil on canvas.
1863 Oil on canvas
1869-70 Oil on canvas
1873 Oil on canvas
1874 Oil on canvas
1874 Pastel on paper
Morisot (Morisot http://cgfa.sunsite.dk/morisot/index.html)
Oil on canvas. Ukraine, Academic Classicism, b. 1857 - d. 1893.
1890, Oil on canvas, 31 1/4 x 23.6"
1887, Oil on canvas, 46 x 35.5", National Musuem in Cracow, Poland
Anna Bilinska-Bohdanowicz (Anna Bilinska-Bohdanowicz http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/art.asp?aid=323)
Robert Hubert was a French painter almost killed during the French Revolution, and owed his life to an accident where another person was guillotined in his place. Hubert was well-known for his paintings of Roman ruins.
Oil on canvas
Robert Hubert (Robert Hubert http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/r/robert/)
Adam Elsheimer was a Germany painter active in Italy. His art was beautiful and lyrical, and showed outstanding rendition of light. He achieved fame during his lifetime in spite of being so lazy that the Flemish baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens lamented his death noting that the world lost the most beautiful art. His art was beautiful even though he was personally unsuccessful and imprisoned for debt.
Adam Elsheimer (Adam Elsheimer http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/elsheimer/)
1577-1640. Rubens was a Flemish baroque painter who executed and supervised the production of an enormous body of work encompassing all aspects of painting and drawing. In his work he showed a love of monumental forms and dynamic effects.
Peter Paul Rubens (Peter Paul Rubens http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/rubens/)
1774-1840. Caspar David Friedrich was a German Romantic painter who studied at the Academy in Copenhagen and settled in Dresden. His works are entirely based on northern Germany and are beautiful natural scenes of trees, hills, harbors, morning mists, and other effects of light. His paintings are often mysterious and contain hidden meanings, such as this first purely natural landscape composition of a cross.
1821, Niedersachsisches Landesmuseum, Hannover
Caspar David Friedrich (Caspar David Friedrich http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/friedrich/)
Andrew Wyeth is a well-known contemporary artist who produced much of his work over a number of years without being published.
Andrew Wyeth (Andrew Wyeth http://www.artchive.com/artchive/W/wyeth/christinas_world.jpg.html)
1573-1621. Ambrosius the Elder was a Flemish still-life painter who spent the major part of his life in the Netherlands. His art shows exceptional exactitude and color, and combines flowers of different seasons into a formal bouquet.
Bosschaert, Ambrosius the Elder (Bosschaert, Ambrosius the Elder http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/b/bosschae/ambrosiu/)
Albert Bierstadt was born in Germany and emigrated to the United States in 1832. From studies and sketches made in nature he made detailed panoramic views of Western American landscape, which made him one of America's most admired painters in his time period.
Albert Bierstadt (Albert Bierstadt http://cgfa.sunsite.dk/bierstadt/index.html)
Edward Hopper was an American painter who stressed isolation, melancholy, and loneliness.
Edward Hopper (Edward Hopper http://cgfa.sunsite.dk/hopper/index.html)
American, 1859-1952.
Laura Coombs Hills (Laura Coombs Hills http://cgfa.sunsite.dk/h/h-9.htm#hills)
