January 23, 2008

Thomas Moran – American Artist

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Thomas Moran was an American artist. He was studied at Hudson River School. Thomas Moran’s dream of the Western landscape was important to the creation of Yellowstone National Park. Moran’s watercolor and pencil paintings and drawings detained the greatness and recognized the amazing landscape and natural features of the Yellowstone region. Moran’s artwork was offered to associates of Congress by park proponents. These potent images of Yellowstone excited the thoughts and supported motivate Congress to launch the National Park System in 1916.

January 14, 2008

William Stanley Haseltine – American Artist

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William Stanley Haseltine was born in Philadelphia. He was an American painter and architect who were related among the Hudson River School and Luminism. He was studied at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1854, he completed his degree at the Harvard University. He first illustrate his paintings in Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts after that he moved to Europe, then he joining who were studying in Düsseldorf American painters colony, after that he moved up Rhine Italy and Switzerland. In 1857 he settled in Rome and draws the landscape then he made the lot of excursions for that around Rome and on Capri.

He came back to Philadelphia in 1858. In 1859, he was established in the Tenth Street Studio Building in New York City, and then it was an essential spot for American painters and also in the building was Frederic Edwin Church, then Haseltine having two friends Worthington Whittredge and Albert Bierstadt in Europe. While most of the paintings in Haseltine are derived from his European sketches and also he started to painting the Oceanside of New England, particularly the rockbound coasts of, Massachusetts, Nahant, Narragansett, Rhode Island and Mount Desert Island, Maine. The meticulousness with which he painted these landscapes succeeds grave admire. In 1860, he was elected an Associate of the National Academy of Design. In 1861, he was a full Academician.

Haseltine’s spouse expired in childbirth then in 1866 he was remarried. At first his families think about to settling in Paris, but they are moved to Rome in 1867, which would for most of his following years serve up as his home and position of leaving from which to make views of the European landscape. Though his paintings of Sicily and Capri would show admired with visiting American tourists. He also took a trip and drew in Holland, Belgium, France and the Netherlands. In 1899 he makes the final trip to the United States. In 1900 he expired of pneumonia in Rome.

January 4, 2008

Hermann Ottomar Herzog – American Artist

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Hermann Ottomar Herzog was a famous American artist in nineteenth and early twentieth-century for his landscapes. Herzog was born in Bremen; Germany. At the age of seventeen he was entered in to the Düsseldorf Academy. Herzog attained early commercial achievement, let him to travel widely and persist his training. His patrons included nobility and royalty all over Europe. 

After a wide trip to Norway, in 1860, he was settled permanently near by Philadelphia of United States. After that, he takes a trip all over the U.S. and Mexico. In 1873, he was painted his manner throughout the western states, arriving in California. His jobs from this journey contain a series of Yosemite Valley paintings. He received an award for his painting of Sentinel Rock in Yosemite at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition in 1876. Herzog was also made wide trips for painting to Florida and Maine. For the reason that he was a wise investor, He should not depend on his artwork for sale to maintain a comfortable way of life.

After his death, his family maintains a large number of his paintings, most of which were discharge to the art market in the 1970s. His works are now presented in the collection of the most famous American and European museums.

In 1992, The Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania detained a main exhibition of Herzog’s work and distributed a list of his work, with an article by art historian Donald S. Lewis, Jr.  Herzog’s made more than 1,000 paintings, together with Landscape with a Bear and her Cub and Women in a Tropical Setting in his long life.     

Oil Paintings