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Elementalism is the recurrent mood of Still's paintings. Many abstract-expressionist canvases allude, directly or not, to landscape. No American artist, however, has so consistently dealt with epic landscape as North Dakota Emigré Still. He is not, of course, a literal landscapist (sky at top, earth below). Yet there is every reason to see in his work a splendid addition to the romantic tradition of landscape, as practiced in Europe from Turner to Van Gogh and in 19th century America by the Hudson River School: a sense of vast, brooding presences, a pantheistic immanence, flickering with energy...
...gets its due from an institution that Turner always regarded with filial piety. There are 650 oils, watercolors, prints and drawings on view, too many to see in one day. In their range-from the earliest imitative watercolors of picturesque scenery, through the imitations of Claude, the French landscapist, the seascapes, the Italian scenes, and so on to the Beethoven-like grandeur of the last landscapes-they form the best pos sible introduction to this coarsely explicit but mysterious Englishman...
...more fortunate in family background and education than were most U.S. Negroes of the period. Born in 1859, the son of an African Methodist minister, the artist was raised in Philadelphia and attended high school. He became entranced with painting at the age of twelve when he saw a landscapist at work during an outing with his father in Fairmount Park...
Along with the awakened market has come a widening interest among American scholars in rediscovering their national esthetic heritage, including fresh appreciation of even the minor figures. A case in point is Jasper Francis Cropsey, a Hudson River landscapist (1823-1900), who last week was honored with an exhibition of 36 oils at the University of Maryland Art Gallery, organized by Museum Fellow Peter Bermingham. A decade ago, Cropsey's landscapes sold for between $200 and $2,000; today they bring between...
...Peales shared a common delight in painting one another. Husbands painted wives, daughters did fathers, nephews did uncles, everyone did in-laws. Charles Willson Peale painted one picture of James studying a miniature done by James's daughter Anna of Rembrandt's daughter Rosalba (herself a landscapist). He did another of James at work, probably on the portrait of his first wife Rachel, in miniature. "There was a happy cheerfulness in their countenances," observed old John Adams, viewing an early portrait by C. W. Peale of his family. It was a cheerfulness and talent that enlivened the family...