Thursday, December 17, 2009

Frontier Paintings

Plains

Bierstadt, Albert
Emigrants Crossing the Plains
1867
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/B/bierstadt/emigrants.jpg.html


On the Plains
http://www.artunframed.com/images/bierstadt2/On_the_Plains.jpg

Catskill Mountains (Northeast)

Cole, Thomas
View on the Catskill - Early Autumn
1837
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/C/cole/cole_autumn.jpg.html


Appalacian Mountains Frontier (east)
The First Harvest in the Wilderness by Asher B. Durand- 1855

http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/167

(click on the painting to make it larger)




Durand, Asher
Early Morning at Cold Spring
185
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/D/durand/durand_cold_spring.jpg.html


Northeast woods

Durand, Asher
In the Woods
1855
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/D/durand/durand_woods.jpg.html


Eastern lowlands (northeast)

Heade, Martin Johnson
Newburyport Meadows
c. 1872-78
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/H/heade/heade_newburyport.jpg.html


Dover Plains, Dutchess County, New York
1848
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/D/durand/durand_dover_plains.jpg.html

Summer Showers by Martin Johnson Heade - 1865-70

http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/946/Summer_Showers





Canyons, Mountains (West)

Moran, Thomas
Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
1872
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/M/moran/moran_grand_canyon.jpg.html


Moran, Thomas
Golden Gateway to the Yellowstone
1893
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/M/moran/moran_gateway.jpg.html


A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie by Albert Bierstadt- 1866

http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/1558/A_Storm_in_the_Rocky_Mountains,_Mt._Rosalie


Bierstadt, Albert
The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak
1863
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/B/bierstadt/bierstadt_landers_peak.jpg.html