Looking at some the most significant place of the world by painting.
Late Afternoon, New York, Winter, Frederick Childe Hassam, 1900, From the collection of: Brooklyn Museum
Frederick Hassam painted this photo in 1900 he wanted to capture an image of New York snowy modern day. This painting was paint on an oil canvas.
White Oak Cotton Mills, unknown, 1900/1910, From the collection of: Greensboro Historical Museum
The music with this photo show you how busy the industrial factory where back in the early 1900's
A View of Asheville, North Carolina, Robert Duncanson, 1850, From the collection of: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Robert Duncanson was an African American painter from Cincinnati Ohio who rose to fame in the late 1850’s. During the summer of 1850-1852 he travel from Cincinnati into more rural mountainous rural areas to sketch the Ohio River Valley. During this travel he would come across City of Asheville and the Blue Ridge Mountains to inspire him to paint this scene of Asheville.
The Voice of the City of New York Interpreted: The Port (The Harbor, The Battery), Joseph Stella, 1920/1922, From the collection of: The Newark Museum of Art
Joseph Stella was showing that the Brooklyn Bride in the painting is one of the major sites that bring tourist to the town and eventually makes tourist become resident to this town. Due to the many sites that New York has to offer in the early 1920’s from the skyscrapers and industrial factory building
New York Central Building, Chesley K. Bonestell (1888-1986), c. 1929, From the collection of: Albany Institute of History & Art
This painting by Chesley Bonstell was an oil painting on a poster board; this painting illuminated nighttime view and nightlife of Central building in New York City on Park Avenue. Which happens to be one my personal favorites hanging up in my office.
Winter Scene in New Haven, Connecticut, George Henry Durrie, ca. 1858, From the collection of: Smithsonian American Art Museum
This is a paining that I found that caught my attention due to snowy and country style scene. After doing my research I found out that it was painted by George Henry Durrie who live in New Haven Connecticut. Doing his tenure he would go from the north to the south to paint rural area scene.
Plan of Chicago: Civic Center, Jules Guerin, delineator (American, 1866–1946); Edward Herbert Bennett, architect (American, born England, 1874–1954); Daniel Hudson Burnham, architect (American, 1846–1912), 1908, From the collection of: The Art Institute of Chicago
Capriccio: The Rialto Bridge and The Church of S. Giorgio Maggiore, Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal), circa 1750, From the collection of: North Carolina Museum of Art
Canaletto Giovanni Antonio Canal paint this painting in 1750 he captures three areas of Venice Italy. In these three areas he paints: the Rialto Bridge, the church if San Giorgio Maggiore, and the entrance to the Grand Canal.
Evening on the Seine, Lovell Birge Harrison, circa 1888, From the collection of: North Carolina Museum of Art
In this painting Lovell Harrison is showing a quiet evening in 1888. You can see the cars on the bridge heading to their destination and the boats heading back into shore.
Bridal Veil Falls, Yosemite, Albert Bierstadt, 1871 - 1873, From the collection of: North Carolina Museum of Art
Paris Street; Rainy Day, Gustave Caillebotte (French, 1848–1894), 1877, From the collection of: The Art Institute of Chicago
Atlanta 1896-1996, Michel Delacroix, 1996, From the collection of: The Olympic Museum
This painting is by Michel Delacroix, it was painted in 1995 he was trying to show and express a view of uptown Atlanta Georgia. The colors he used in this painting show that Atlanta Georgia is full of pop, good times, and heavy movement. He also shows in this painting the heavy activity this town will attract in the near future especially announcing that this city will host the 1996 Olympics.
The City of Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania, North America, Samuel Seymour, 1801, From the collection of: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Sand Dunes at Sunset, Atlantic City, Henry Ossawa Tanner, c. 1885, From the collection of: The White House
Florida Sunrise, Martin Johnson Heade, c. 1890 - 1900, From the collection of: The White House
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