Sunday, April 16, 2017

Chrysler Museum of Art: American Art of the 18th & 19th Centuries


The next galleries feature American works from the century that defined us as a nation, a century cut in half by our Civil War, and the paintings say so much about our hopes, our desires and our optimism in spite of the pain we inflicted upon ourselves. There's a lot of today in these paintings, too.
"The "C" Note" by Ferdinand Danton, Jr., circa 1890
"Still Life" by Werner Hunzinger, 1850
"Waiting for William" by John George Brown, 1879
"Dem Was Good Ole Times" by Thomas Hovenden, 1882
"Farmer with a Pitchfork" by Winslow Homer, circa 1874
"Pull for the Shore" by John George Brown, 1878
"Minnehaha Falls" by Ablert Berstadt, 1886
"God's Judgment Upon Gog" by Asher B. Durand, circa 1851-1852
"Still Life with Fruit" by Severin Rose, circa 1859
"Harvest Scene" by Daniel Ridgeway Knight, 1875

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