The Last of the Buffalo is Albert Bierstadt’s final, great, western painting. Measuring six by ten feet, it mirrors in size his first massive oil, Lake Lucerne (1858), also in the National Gallery of Art collection.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Aert van der Neer possessed a wonderful ability to convey the activities and atmosphere of a calm winter day. Under a light blue sky scattered with clouds, people of all ages skate, push sleds, ride in horse-drawn sleighs, and socialize on a frozen river.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Philadelphia Museum of Art.
1894, carbon) 1913, New York (no. 8, as A Wet Day on the Boulevard, 1894) 1944, Philadelphia
The American artist, skilled at both painting and publicity, created a sensation similar to the social media–famous exhibitions of today.
Washington, DC; Richmond, Virginia; New Orleans, Louisiana; Boston, Massachusetts; and Philadelphia
„Early Italian paintings in Washington and Philadelphia.“
The Thinker was originally conceived not in heroic isolation, but as part of Rodin’s monumental Gates of Hell —a pair of bronze doors intended for a museum of decorative arts in Paris. Although the doors were never cast during the sculptor’s lifetime, they nevertheless provided Rodin a rich source of ideas for individual figures and groups that he worked and reworked for the rest of his career.
Philadelphia, 1976: 111-121. 1977 de Caso, Jacques, and Patricia B. Sanders.
Before establishing himself as a pioneering member of the dada movement during and after World War I, Picabia experimented with various forms of modernist painting. Procession, Seville belongs to a group of works from 1912 in which the artist demonstrates a sophisticated and highly idiosyncratic assimilation of recent developments in cubism and futurism.[1] Fragmented planes, shallow space, and an allover pattern of flickering lights and darks are all associated with the analytic cubism of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque;
.; Philadelphia Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1996-1998, no.
Succession Marcel Duchamp / ADAGP, Paris / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, Philadelphia
This monumental view of the Hudson River Valley was painted from memory in the artist’s London studio. Cropsey adopted a high vantage point, looking southeast toward the distant Hudson River and the flank of Storm King Mountain.
Britain, London; Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec had a passion for the theater in all its forms, from the popular dance halls and cabarets to the avant-garde theaters of Paris. He was both a keen spectator and an active participant, designing posters, theater programs, scenery, and costumes for a number of theaters and stage productions.
Toulouse-Lautrec, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1955; Art Institute of Chicago, 1956
