Vija Celmins creates photorealistic drawings and paintings of the natural world. Her detailed, meditative images of subjects such as ocean waves or stars in the sky are often rendered in gray, black, and white.
Celmins earned her master’s degree in art from the University of California, Los
During the 1830s, traveling with fur company representatives, cavalry officers, and later alone on multiple western journeys, George Catlin gathered drawings, sketches, and notes that would allow him to create an “Indian Gallery�—a collection of more than 500 paintings of American Indians. By the end of the decade, he would be widely recognized as the most celebrated painter of America’s native people.
Art, New York, 1965. 1972 The American West: Painters from Catlin to Russell, Los
Vanguard Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Los
Around Impressionism: French Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, Los Angeles
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While his figure paintings are better known, Renoir’s landscapes resonate with a vigor and freshness of vision central to the development of impressionism, most apparent here in his transcription of the effects of sunlight. Midday sun suffuses the panorama, its intensity heightening the artist’s palette and suppressing incidental detail to clarify the crowded scene.
1999 Around Impressionism: French Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, Los
is one of Avercamp’s masterpieces, his Winter Scene on a Frozen Canal in the Los
After learning the fundamentals of drawing and painting in his native Leiden, Rembrandt van Rijn went to Amsterdam in 1624 to study for six months with Pieter Lastman (1583–1633), a famous history painter. Upon completion of his training Rembrandt returned to Leiden.
Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los
Around Impressionism: French Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, Los Angeles
Daumier: Exhibition of Prints, Drawings, Watercolors, Paintings, and Sculpture, Los
