Quarry by Edward L. Loper https://www.nga.gov/artworks/176358-quarry
Visual Description A stream winds through steep, rocky banks that lead back to a
Visual Description A stream winds through steep, rocky banks that lead back to a
Francis Basset (1757–1835) likely commissioned Thomas Gainsborough to paint a pair of portraits depicting himself and his wife, Frances Susanna Coxe (c. 1760–1823), soon after he purchased their new home in 1785.
The paintings adorned the stately Radnor House, built in 1673 on the banks of the
Steep banks sloping toward the stream are mounded with snow.
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To make it, Cropsey carefully observed the trees on the banks of the Hudson River
In the art of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the Virtues were often personified by human figures carrying identifying attributes. Charity typically holds one or more children.
Faith and Charity stand on bases treated as little banks of clouds, as if they were
The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts resident community of international scholars consists of the Kress-Beinecke Professor, the Andrew W. Mellon Professor, the Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor, the A. W. Mellon Lecturer in the Fine Arts, and approximately 18 fellows at any one time, including senior fellows, visiting senior fellows, guest scholars, research associates, postdoctoral fellows, and predoctoral fellows.In addition, the Center supports approximately 15 predoctoral fellows who are conducting research elsewhere, both in the United States and abroad.
Visiting Senior Fellow, September–October 2025 Painting Poverty for Queens and Bankers
In 1883 Monet moved his household, his two sons along with Alice Hoschedé and her children, to the rural community of Giverny, where he leased a house that he was able to purchase seven years later. In early 1893, he acquired a swampy area across the railroad tracks abutting his property and petitioned the village council for permission to divert a small stream into it.
The spring and emerald-green grasses growing along the banks fill the space around
such as the one he recorded in The Jolly Flatboatmen as a child sitting on the banks
This 19th-century dinner dress captured in the Index of American Design gives us a glimpse of how the wealthy dressed for dinner.
Morgan, a famous banker of the late 19th-century Gilded Age.
In the spring of 1871 Thomas Moran traveled to the American West for the first time. Immediately upon his return, he began producing the paintings that would change the course of his career.
was purchased—perhaps commissioned—by George Frederick Tyler, a Philadelphia banker