A Century of American Landscape Art

Artist Lois Dodd is known for the careful simplicity of her paintings, that illustrate her attentiveness to, and appreciation for, the scenes she encounters in her immediate environment. In much of her work we see the view out the window of her Lower East Side apartment.

Though best known for his vibrant scenes of the wharves and harbors of the New England coast, Philip Little created a series of landscapes during his summer stays on MacMahon Island off the Maine coast. These highly individual works demonstrate a poetic exuberance in the handling of light, color and atmosphere.

Having only one year of formal artistic training, under the painter Hans Hofmann, Larry Rivers was one of the most important American artists of the postwar era creating a personal hybrid of Abstract Expressionism and narrative Pop imagery.

Daniel Garber, one of the most interesting and original of American Impressionists, was a leading figure in the Pennsylvania School of landscape painting centered around the village of New Hope. Renowned for his poetic and quietly lyrical landscapes, Garber was a talented figure painter as well.

During his lifetime, Edward C. Volkert became known as “America’s cattle painter,” for his numerous depictions of cows and bulls in rural settings. In this painting, he captured an early summer morning.

Wilson Henry Irvine traveled frequently, scouting new locations in which to paint landscapes en plein air. Despite the looming shadow of modernism, and the art market’s shifting tastes, he remained relevant as an impressionist painter until the end of his life.

Attracted by the unique scenery of the Catskill Mountains, John F. Carlson eventually settled outside of Woodstock, NY, painting lyrical images of forestry and forming a long-term relationship with the town’s artist colony.

As both a painter and a printmaker, Will Barnet valued concept and technique. An extremely dynamic artist, Barnet changed his style significantly throughout his career with early works influenced by social realism followed by abstract and stylized figurative work later in his career.