American Landscapes
over Time
Title: Greenwood Lake, 1871
Artist: Jasper Cropsey (American 1823-1900)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 12 x 20 inches Frame: 18 x 26 inches
Gift of Miss Mary Dyckman, 1959 59.368
Permanent Collection & Image Courtesy: Newark Museum
What's in your collection?
Small But Sublime
Intimate Views by
Durand, Bierstadt and Inness:
Newark Museum
March 19 2008 - February 22, 2009
It's always fascinating when a museum or art gallery has a fresh look at their own
collection and decides to organize an exhibition around a specific theme.
Title: Lake at Franconia Notch, White Mountains, ca. 1860s
Artist: Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 13 ½ x 19 ¼ inches
Gift of Dr. J. Ackerman Coles, 1926 26.1165
Permanent Collection & Image Courtesy: Newark Museum
The Newark Museum has a delightful set of modestly sized,
beautifully painted landscapes that date from the 1850s onwards.
Bringing them together explores the different approaches to
landscape painting, while not overlooking changes both in
artistic and social attitudes towards
nature.
Title: Passaic Falls, Paterson, 1864
Artist: William Rickarby Miller (1818-1893)
Medium: Watercolor and Pencil on Paper
Dimensions: 14 1/8 x 20 ¼ inches
Purchase 1964 Endownment Fund: Life Membership 64.48
Permanent Collection & Image Courtesy: Newark Museum
Any exhibition exploring alterations in American landscape painting must
look at the Hudson River School. These artists were active for a fifty year period;
spanning from circa 1825-1875. Artists such as Albert Bierstadt, Asher B. Durand
and Jasper Cropsey found inspiration in the American landscape they'd come to love.
Title: Moonrise, 1892
Artist: Theodore Robinson (American 1852-1896)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 15 7/8 x 22 /18 inches Frame: 30 ½ x 34 ½ inches
Purchase 1965 Felix Fuld Bequest Fund 65.120
Permanent Collection & Image Courtesy: Newark Museum
Small but Sublime moves beyond the Hudson River School looking at the European
influences as the French Barbizon movement became popular particularly with
George Inness, John Pope and Mary Moran. Then came the Impressionists with their
use of light and brilliant tones; with their talent crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
Title: Landscape,
Artist: George H. Smillie (American 1840-1921)
Medium: Oil on Wood
Dimensions: 10 ½ x 8 inches Frame: 21 7/8 x 19 3/8 inches
Bequest of J. Ackerman Coles, 1926 26.1287
Permanent Collection & Image Courtesy: Newark Museum
Landscapes tend to catch the eye they can be tranquil or disturbing depending on what the artist
is conveying. The Newark Museum's Small but Sublime opened earlier this year and runs through
February 22, 2009.
Small But Sublime
Intimate Views by
Durand, Bierstadt and Inness:
Newark Museum:
March 19 2008 - February 22, 2009
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