This post comes to us from Alexandra Torbick, Curatorial Intern. Appropriation, the act of direct duplication, copying or incorporation of an image (painting, photograph, etc) by another artist[1], has been endogenous within the art world since antiquity, especially in the times of the Roman Empire. Using Greek bronze sculptures as their guide, the Romans took [...]
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Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery: Appropriation & Inspiration at the NBMAA
Posted in Collection Highlights, Current Exhibitions, Exhibitions, Hudson River School, New Acquisition on April 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The Changing Landscape
Posted in Appropriation & Inspiration, Collection Highlights, Current Exhibitions, Hudson River School on December 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
As the year slowly comes to a close we begin to experience the last hints of autumn as winter settles in. The cool crisp air, the changing leaves, the ripe apples, pumpkins, and seasonal holidays are all upon us. We also begin to see the changes in landscape. Autumn brings a variety of color out [...]
American Reflections: The Collection of Dr. Timothy McLaughlin
Posted in Current Exhibitions, Exhibition Tours, Exhibitions, Hudson River School, tagged Aaron Draper Shattuck, American Impressionism, American Reflections, American Reflections: The Collection of Dr. Timothy McLaughlin, Connecticut, Cos Cob, East Rock, East Rock New Haven, exhibition catalog, Hudson River Highlands, Hudson River School, Impressionism, Impressionists, John Ferguson Weir, Landscape Sunset over the Hills, Millstone Point, New Haven, Old Lyme, Private Collection, Sanford Robinson Gifford, Weir Dynasty, William Chadwick on October 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Millstone Point. William Chadwick (1879-1962). Oil on canvas, 24 x 30 in. Collection of Dr. Timothy McLaughlin. The NBMAA is currently showing American Reflections: The Collection of Dr. Timothy McLaughlin in the Davis Gallery. This private collection is composed of a wide variety of local and regional subject matter. The exhibition is a focused view of [...]
Thomas Cole and Asher B. Durand
Posted in Collection Highlights, Current Exhibitions, Exhibitions, Hudson River School on September 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Thomas Cole, Asher Durand, Fitz Henry Lane, William Bradford, and John Kensett are all renowned landscape artists. Thomas Cole was a founding father of the Hudson River School. He created beautiful and dramatic landscapes by utilizing light and shadow. Cole grew up in England, and lived near textile mills where there was a lot of pollution, yet he was [...]
Gallery Tours: The Next Generation of Hudson River School Painters
Posted in Appropriation & Inspiration, Collection Highlights, Current Exhibitions, Exhibition Tours, Exhibitions, Hudson River School, tagged Albert Bierstadt, Epic Landscape, Farallon Islands, Fitz Hugh Lane, Hudson River, Hudson River School, Luminism, Seal Rock, Ship “Roma” in Distress, Ship Wreck off the New England Coast, The Wreck of the “Roma”, The Wreck of the Ship “Roma” on July 26, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The Hudson River School artists paved the way for the movements known as Luminism and Epic Landscape. In contrast to the painters of the Hudson River School, the Luminists focused on landscapes that were less romantic and more concerned with detailed forms defined by light. Fitz Hugh Lane (1804-1865), Thomas Worthington Whittredge (1820-1910), and Martin Johnson [...]
Gallery Tours: The Hudson River School
Posted in Collection Highlights, Current Exhibitions, Exhibition Tours, Exhibitions, Hudson River School, tagged American landscape, Asher B. Durand, Asher Brown Durand, Berkshires, Catskills, Hudson River, Hudson River School, Hudson River Valley, John Kensett, landscape painters, New Britain Museum of American Art, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sunday Morning, The Clove, Thomas Cole, uniquely American on July 21, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The Hudson River School was not an actual school but a group of like-minded landscape painters who worked in a similar style from about 1825 to 1865. The growing number of crowded industrial cities in the East gave rise to an appreciation for pictures of the landscape untouched by man. The movement was fueled [...]
Museums as Subject Matter in Works of Art
Posted in Contemporary Art, Current Exhibitions, Exhibitions, Hudson River School, Photography, tagged Bechers, Canaletto, Chicago Art Institute, Exhibitions, Frederick Edwin Church, Galleria dell'Accademia, Grand Tour, large format camera, Louvre, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum Photographs, Pantheon, The Parthenon, Thomas Struth on March 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
When looking at Frederick Edwin Church’s painting The Parthenon, one is reminded of the fact that artists have used other works of art as subject matter for several centuries. The Parthenon is part of seven masterpieces from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on view until September 2010 at the New Britain Museum of American Art. During [...]
Seven Masterworks from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Come to New Britain
Posted in Current Exhibitions, Exhibitions, Hudson River School, Press Releases, tagged Asher Brown Durand, Current Exhibitions, Exhibitions, Frederic Church, Hudson River School, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Press Release on February 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Large-scale and dynamic describe the selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s American collections that will be on view at the New Britain Museum of American Art for a year and a half in an exhibition entitled Hudson River Paintings from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. “I believe you will be astonished by their beauty [...]
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