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Esaias van de Velde
Travelers by a Lake
1625 Oil Painting on wood
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| Albert Bierstadt Valley of the Yosemite 1864 |
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| Albert Bierstadt The Buffalo Trail 1867 |
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| Albert Bierstadt Yosemite Valley 1866 | | |
Description from artstor:
Albert Bierstadt visited California's Yosemite Valley in the summer of
1863 during one of his lengthy tours of the American West. On his
return to New York, he produced numerous paintings based on sketches he
had made. Such views thrilled East Coast audiences who had heard
reports of grand mountains rivalling the Alps of Europe. The Native
American couple standing in the foreground helps convey the enormous
scale of Yosemite's snow-capped peaks and marks this scene as distinctly
American.Fashionable and expensive, paintings like this also spurred
early movements to save the country's natural wonders. In 1864,
President Lincoln signed a bill preserving Yosemite as public property;
it became a national park in 1890.
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Albert Bierstadt
Mountain Brook 1863
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| Albert Bierstadt View of Donner Lake, California
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| Albert Bierstadt California Spring |
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| Albert Bierstadt Yosemite Valley, Glacier Point Trail 1873 | |
Again from the artstor description:
While other artists had preceded him in the Far West, Bierstadt was the
first and greatest American painter fully to capture the magnificent
grandeur of the Rocky Mountains, Sierra Nevada, and Yosemite Valley.
His panoramic visions of spectacular and unspoiled wilderness, created
during a period of great technological and social change, captured the
public imagination and brought him enormous financial success. Painted
in his New York studio from detailed studies in the field, their common
theme was the frontier quest for peace and prosperity in a new golden
land; divinely created, this wilderness awaits settlement. Ironically,
Biertstadt's virgin landscapes were actually post-frontier spectacles.
The completion of the transcontinental railway had brought a subsequent
boom in tourism. In this painting, Bierstadt shows tourists, some on
pack horses, on a curved section of the Glacier Point Trail looking down
into the pristine Yosemite Valley.
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| Rene Magritte The Human Condition 1945 |
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| Rene Magritte Euclidean Promenades 1955 |
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| Rene Magritte La Condition Humaine 1948 |
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Andy Goldsworthy
Yellow Elm Leaves, Laid Over a Rock, Low Water
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| Andy Goldsworthy Seven Spires; view looking up toward top of one spire 1984 |
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| Andy Goldsworthy Sidewinder; oblique view in forest 1985 |
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| Andy Goldsworthy
Yorkshire Sculpture Park Dandelions/newly flowered/ none as yet turned to seed/undamaged by wind or rain/ a grass verge.. 1987 |
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| Andy Goldsworthy
Yorkshire Sculpture Park Two works made in the same place/sticks and willow herb stalks/ pushed into lake bottom/shallow... 1987 |
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| Andy Goldsworthy Yorkshire Sculpture Park Worked through the night/ clear & freezing
to begin with/ banks of clouds drifting over/ became warmer 1987 |
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| Ansel Adams El Capitan, Sunrise 1956 |
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| Ansel Adams Winter Storm 1944 |
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| Ansel Adams Forest Near Beartrack Cove, Glacier Bay National Monument, Alaska
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| Ansel Adams Benji Iguchi, on Tractor in Field From the book Manzanar, Japanese Internment |
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| Ansel Adams The Sentinel, Yosemite Valley 1920s |
