Landscape Slideshow

Esaias van de Velde     Travelers by a Lake   1625      Oil Painting on wood

Esaias van de Velde        Landscape with a watermill	1623        black chalk, touched with brown wash, on paper

Esaias van de Velde        Landscape with a watermill 

1623        black chalk, touched with brown wash, on paper  

Albert Bierstadt     Valley of the Yosemite   1864

Albert Bierstadt    The Buffalo Trail     1867

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.

Albert Bierstadt

Mountain Brook    1863

Albert Bierstadt    View of Donner Lake, California

Albert Bierstadt    California Spring

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.

Rene Magritte    The Human Condition     1945

Rene Magritte     Euclidean Promenades    1955

Rene Magritte      La Condition Humaine     1948

Andy Goldsworthy    
Yellow Elm Leaves, Laid Over a Rock, Low Water

Andy Goldsworthy   Seven Spires; view looking up toward top of one spire    1984

Andy Goldsworthy     Sidewinder; oblique view in forest     1985

Andy Goldsworthy Yorkshire Sculpture Park Dandelions/newly flowered/ none as yet turned to seed/undamaged by wind or rain/ a grass verge..  1987

Andy Goldsworthy     Yorkshire Sculpture Park Two works made in the same place/sticks and willow herb stalks/ pushed into lake bottom/shallow...    1987

Andy Goldsworthy   Yorkshire Sculpture Park Worked through the night/ clear & freezing to begin with/ banks of clouds drifting over/ became warmer    1987

Ansel Adams    El Capitan, Sunrise    1956

Ansel Adams    Winter Storm     1944

Ansel Adams    Forest Near Beartrack Cove, Glacier Bay National Monument, Alaska

Ansel Adams     Benji Iguchi, on Tractor in Field     From the book Manzanar, Japanese Internment

Ansel Adams    The Sentinel, Yosemite Valley    1920s