Dein Suchergebnis zum Thema: Philadelphia

Philadelphia Museum of Art Bulletin vol. 74 no. 321 (1978): 11, 13, repro. 2001

checklist. 1996 The Peale Family: Creation of an American Legacy, 1770-1870, Philadelphia

Philadelphia, 1935: 46-47. 1942 Works of Art from the Widener Collection.

Gabriel Metsu was born in Leiden sometime between November 27 and mid-December 1629, about eight months after the death of his father, the Flemish painter Jacques Metsue. In 1644, when fifteen-year-old Gabriel Metsu joined a semiformal group of local artists, he entered the membership rolls as a “painter.� Six days after the establishment of Leiden’s Saint Luke’s Guild in 1648, Metsu paid his membership dues as an independent master.
Philadelphia Museum of Art; Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz

Unlike some of his contemporaries, John Frederick Kensett felt no need to travel to the tropics or the American West to find compelling subjects to paint. Instead, he continually revisited several familiar locales in New York and New England where he could explore the ways in which the same motif was altered by subtle differences in light and atmosphere.
Cummings, Historic Annals of the National Academy of Design (1825-1863), Philadelphia

Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Philadelphia;[2] inheritance from Estate of

The three cargo ships in this large painting are the type of wide-bellied, seagoing vessels used to transport much of the commodities that generated the wealth of the Dutch in the seventeenth century. Flying the red, white, and blue flag of the Dutch Republic, these floating symbols of national prosperity are nevertheless in peril of crashing on the rocky shore.
Art Institute of Chicago; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.

for another painting, North River (1908, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

Cole’s renowned four-part series traces the journey of an archetypal hero along the „River of Life.“ Confidently assuming control of his destiny and oblivious to the dangers that await him, the voyager boldly strives to reach an aerial castle, emblematic of the daydreams of „Youth“ and its aspirations for glory and fame. As the traveler approaches his goal, the ever-more-turbulent stream deviates from its course and relentlessly carries him toward the next picture in the series, where nature’s fury, evil demons, and self-doubt will threaten his very existence.
1843, no. 2. 1844 Paintings Exhibited…, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia

The unusual subject of this painting comes from one of Aesop’s fables. In his Man and the Satyr , he related how a demigod helped a peasant who was lost on a wintry day.
Widener, Ashbourne-near Philadelphia. Part II.