Word: canvases
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many nineteenth century artists began their careers as sign painters or carpenters and never had much formal training in art. Often this lack of instruction freed them from a rigid approach. Some explored the country searching for ever more dramatic landscapes. Frederick Edwin Church traveled to South America and painted...
Unlike today, artists in the nineteenth century had no problem selecting a subject for their work. All aspects of the country invited them to paint-to paint things that no one had painted before. They recorded events, people, plains and waterfalls in a sparse. direct style. Though these artists used...
The slightly strange look of the world inside American works sometimes runs close to the visionary. In one particularly beautiful picture by George Caleb Bingham, a canoe moves across the canvas on a glassy river. A yellow glow from the side lights the figures of a man who has stopped...
The best paintings hang at the end of the exhibition in the last work of the nineteenth century when artists like Eakins, Whistler. Homer and Sargent work with full new techniques of realism. In one haunting canvas by Eakins, surgeons in business suits cut into a man's leg. Scarcely...
All that Matters. Two nights later, that record was not even remotely jeopardized. At 1:37 of the seventh round, Weiland hit the canvas for the fourth and last time. No matter, really, that Weiland, a flabby 232 lbs., had fairly waddled around the ring, that at one point he...