Dein Suchergebnis zum Thema: Philadelphia

Jan Steen’s paintings encompass a wide range of moods and subjects, from intimate scenes of a family saying grace before a meal to festive village celebrations, yet all of his paintings elicit a warm reaction to the lives of ordinary people. All five senses are represented in this work in which two young musicians play for a dancing couple while other people in the vine-covered arbor flirt, eat, drink, or smoke, and children amuse themselves with their toys.
Widener, Ashbourne, near Philadelphia. 2 vols.

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. 1. 1844 Paintings Exhibited…, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia

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.

The basic fascination with capturing and studying images of ourselves and of others—for what they say about us, as individuals and as a people—is what makes portraiture so compelling.
The Peale family formed an artistic dynasty based in Philadelphia.

Compensation is a portrait of the struggles of deaf African Americans and the complexities of loving relationships at the bookends of the 20th century. 
About the artist Originally from Philadelphia, Zeinabu Davis is acclaimed for her

Rosenwald of Philadelphia, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1929, no. 48. 1953 Renaissance

Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime: 1889, Berlin (no. 81.9, as Ochsen [stie.]) 1893, Philadelphia