Brooks Anderson Art

Minimal, Vertical abstracted landscape painting of a fuschia pink field with evergreen and red trees under a pale blue sky "Color Field 500", painted by Tracy Helgeson in 2021 36 x ...

Depression Era Mid 20th Century Social Realism Modern WPA American Scene NYC Saul Kovner (1904-1981) Hot Summer Night 25 x 30 inches Oil on canvas Signed lower left and dated‘48 Fr...

Unframed Dimensions: 40 x 30 inches Framed Dimensions: 48 1/2 x 38 1/2 inches American, b. 1952 Frank Corso was born in Syracuse New York. Taking a keen interest in art at a very e...

Jessie Agnes Schley (American, 1854-1928) was born in Wisconsin, the daughter of Charles Schley, a prominent Milwaukee real estate agent. A devout Catholic, Schley tried twice to bec...

Minimal, Vertical abstracted landscape painting of a fuschia pink field with evergreen and red trees under a pale blue sky "Color Field 500", painted by Tracy Helgeson in 2021 36 x ...

Contemporary abstract landscape painting in oil on linen mounted on panel with carefully ordered leaf patterns and delicate rainbow lines in a fan shape on an atmospheric layered nav...

Magnolias in the Garden 48" x 60 " oil on canvas Look for Free Shipping at Checkout Susan is a native Houstonian. She is passionate about oil paintings, specializing in large scal...

"Birdlands Cherry Blossom Ride" is a naturalist landscape featuring hues of blue, turquoise, green, yellow and gold. Carlyle is inspired by the works of Claude Monet, Edouard Vuill...

By M.A. Bhatti 16" x 20" Oil on Canvas Framed Size: 21.5" x 25.5" This fast-paced western painting depicts a lasso-wielding cowboy on horseback chasing down a rogue calf. The scene...

A walk through any major museum will reveal paintings that depict or legitimate only certain kinds of experience. Despite the good intentions of critical theorists questioning the va...

The career of William Stanley Haseltine spans the entire second half of the nineteenth century. During these years he witnessed the growth and decline of American landscape painting, the new concept of plein-air painting practiced by the Barbizon artists, and the revolutionary techniques of the French Impressionists, all of which had profound effects on the development of painting in the western world. Haseltine remained open to these new developments, selecting aspects of each and assimilating them into his work. What remained constant was his love of nature and his skill at rendering exactly what he saw. His views, at once precise and poetic, are, in effect, portraits of the many places he visited and the landscapes he loved. Haseltine was born in Philadelphia, the son of a prosperous businessman. In 1850, at the age of fifteen, he began his art studies with Paul Weber, a German artist who had settled in Philadelphia two years earlier. From Weber, Haseltine learned about Romanticism and the meticulous draftsmanship that characterized the German School. At the same time, Haseltine enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania, and took sketching trips around the Pennsylvania countryside, exploring areas along the Delaware and Susquehanna rivers. Following his sophomore year, Haseltine transferred to Harvard University. After graduating from Harvard in 1854, Haseltine returned to Philadelphia and resumed his studies with Weber. Although Weber encouraged Haseltine to continue his training in Europe, the elder Haseltine was reluctant to encourage his son to pursue a career as an artist. During the next year, Haseltine took various sketching trips along the Hudson River and produced a number of pictures, some of which were exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in the spring of 1855. Ultimately, having convinced his father that he should be allowed to study in Europe, Haseltine accompanied Weber to Düsseldorf. The Düsseldorf Academy was, during the 1850s, at the peak of its popularity among American artists. The Academy’s strict course of study emphasized the importance of accurate draftsmanship and a strong sense of professionalism. Landscape painting was the dominant department at the Düsseldorf Academy during this period, and the most famous landscape painter there was Andreas Achenbach, under whom Haseltine studied. Achenbach’s realistic style stressed close observation of form and detail, and reinforced much of what Haseltine had already learned. His Düsseldorf training remained an important influence on him for the rest of his life. At Düsseldorf, Haseltine became friendly with other American artists studying there, especially Emanuel Leutze, Worthington Whittredge, and Albert Bierstadt. They were constant companions, and in the spring and summer months took sketching trips together. In the summer of 1856 the group took a tour of the Rhine, Ahr, and Nahe valleys, continuing through the Swiss alps and over the Saint Gotthard Pass into northern Italy. The following summer Haseltine, Whittredge, and the painter John Irving returned to Switzerland and Italy, and this time continued on to Rome. Rome was a fertile ground for artists at mid-century. When Haseltine arrived in the fall of 1857, the American sculptors Harriet Hosmer, Chauncey B. Ives, Joseph Mozier, William Henry Rinehart...

Minimal, Vertical abstracted landscape painting of a fuschia pink field with evergreen and red trees under a pale blue sky "Color Field 500", painted by Tracy Helgeson in 2021 36 x ...