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Pictures from the New World


A selection of paintings, drawings and photographs covering the myth of the New World
from the nineteenth-century explorations of America,including the Far North, to contemporary explorations of the solar system.





Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900), The Icebergs - Oil on canvas, 1861, 164x286 cm, Dallas Museum of Art, anonymous gift











Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900), Aurora Borealis - Oil on canvas, 1861,142.3 x 212.2 cm, Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Eleanor Blodgett 1911.4.1









Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900), In the Andes, 1878, Oil on canvas,38.57 x 56.35 cm











Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900),The Iceberg, 1891, Oil on canvas,50,8 x 76,2 cm. Howard N. Eavenson Memorial Foundation













Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900),Our Banner in the Sky, 1863, Oil on canvas,50,20 x 28 cm.













Thomas Cole (1801-1848), View of the Round-Top in the Catskill Mountains (Sunny Morning on the Hudson), Oil on canvas, 1827, 100 x 138cm, Museum of Fine Arts (Boston). Gift of Martha C.











Thomas Cole (1801-1848),Expulsion, Moon and Firelight, 1828, Oil on canvas, 91x22cm, Hudson River School foundation.













Grafton Tyler Brown (1841-1918), Old Faithful Geyser, Yellowstone National Park, 1887, Oil on canvas, 55x76cm, Stark Museum of Art, Orange, Texas













Grafton Tyler Brown & Co.(1841-1918), Virginia City, N. T., 105x78cm













Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902), Florida scene, oil on canvas














Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902), Butterfly, 1893, oil painting on canvas











James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834 - 1903), Harmony in Blue and Silver:Trouville, 1865











Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902, Storm in the mountains, oil on canvas











William Bradford (1823-1892), The Midnight Sun in Melville Bay in August (The Arctic regions, illustrated with photographs taken on an art expedition to Greenland ), 14.5 x 22.5 cm











William Bradford (1823-1892), Cloud study











Etienne Léopold Trouvelot (1827-1895), aurora-borealis, pastel











Etienne Léopold Trouvelot (1827-1895), Astronomical drawings











Etienne Léopold Trouvelot (1827-1895), total-eclipse of the sun, pastel on paper











Etienne Léopold Trouvelot (1827-1895), the planet jupiter, pastel on paper











Etienne Léopold Trouvelot (1827-1895), trouvelot figure, pastel on paper











Etienne Léopold Trouvelot (1827-1895), trouvelot figure, pastel on paper











Etienne Léopold Trouvelot (1827-1895), saturn, pastel on paper











Etienne Léopold Trouvelot (1827-1895), leonides, pastel on paper






















Eadweard-muybridge-valley-of-yosemite-confluence-of-the-merced-and-yosemite-creek











Frederic Remington (1861-1909), Wolf











Frederic Remington (1861-1909)











Winslow Homer (1836-1910),a summer night











Childe Hassam (1859-1935),The Sonata, 1893, oil on canvas (81 cm. x 81 cm.)











Winslow Homer (1836-1910),fox hunt











British-American photographer Eadweard Muybridge











Charles Leander Weed (attributed)J. Paul Getty Museum -Eadweard Muybridge,
photographer of nature,is captured in 1872 in the Grant Mariposa Grove at Yosemite











Carleton E. Watkins (1829-1916)-cathedral rock











Carleton E. Watkins (1829-1916)-Hydraulic mining











Carleton Watkins leaving his studio during the fire following the San Francisco earthquake-April 1906 (Bancroft Library)











Lawren S. Harris (1885-1970) / the group of seven, Snow on Trees, oil on canvas, 56,5 x 59,0 cm,1915











Lawren S. Harris (1885-1970) / the group of seven, Yellow sky, blue spruce, oil on canvas













Lawren S. Harris (1885-1970) / the group of seven, Algoma Hill, oil on canvas, 1920











Franklin Carmichael (1890-1945) sketching at Grace Lake, Ontario in 1935.











Franklin Carmichael (1890-1945), framed watercolour, A Northern Lake, 27.9 x 33.0 cm ,1928 (Art Gallery of Sudbury Art Collection Archives)











Franklin Carmichael (1890-1945), Bay of islands, 1930











Franz Johnston (1888-1949), the fire ranger,1921











Franz Johnston (1888-1949), Closing Glory,1936, oil on wood panel











Franz Johnston (1888-1949), “Soft Sun Light”, oil on panel











Arthur Lismer (1885-1969),The-Guides-Home-Algonquin, 1914











James Edward Hervey MacDonald (1873-1932)-"Mist Fantasy"











Frank Johnston (1888-1949)-Guardian of the Gorge











Tom-Thomson (1877-1917) The-Canoe-1912











Tom Thomson-(1877-1917)-Sunset-Algonquin Park











A.Y.Jackson (1882-1974), a copse, evening











Arthur Lismer (1885-1969), Convoy at Sea, 1920











Alexander Young Jackson, The Convoy, 1919











Arthur Lismer (1885-1969), Olympic with Returned Soldiers, 1920











Arthur Lismer and Tom Thomson, Smoke Lake, Algonquin Park, 1914











John Steuart Curry (1897-1946), Coyote stealing a pig, 1927 lithograph on paper sheet (41.8 x 55.3 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Park and Phyllis Rinard in honor of Nan Wood Graham.











James Edward Hervey MacDonald (1873-1932)-Mount Lefroy











James Edward Hervey MacDonald (1873-1932)-The-Tangled-Garden-1916











John Steuart Curry (1897-1946), Sanctuary,1936 Watercolor on paper,(35.56 x 53.34 cm.)











John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum (1867-1941),Aviator









John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum (1867-1941), Stone mountain (close up mosaic)











John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum (1867-1941), 1927- Massive likeness of US Pres. George Washington-first of four sculptures to later
include Presidents Jefferson Theodore Roosevelt and Lincoln as Mount Rushmore National Memorial in the Black Hills South Dakota











John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum (1867-1941), Mount Rushmore National











Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009), 1948,détrempe à l'oeuf,New York, Museum of Modern Art











Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009), Wind From The Sea











Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1896)











Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1896), Ram's Head White Hollyhock and Little Hills, 1935, The Brooklyn Museum











Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) "Georgia O'Keeffe Torso", 1918











Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1896), Red hills lake











Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), Freedom from fear, 1943











Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), Freedom of speech, 1943











Jackson Pollock,Number 8, 1949, Oil, enamel, and aluminum paint on canvas,(86.6 x 180.9 cm), Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York











Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), conoisseur, 1962











Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) two figures in landscape, 1968









Jasper Johns (born in 1930), Flag, 1954











Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) Monogramm (1955-1959)











Robert Smithson (1938-1973) Spiral Jetty, 1970











Robert Smithson (1938-1973) Spiral Jetty, 1970











Robert Smithson & Nancy Holt "East Coast West Coast" (1969)











Joseph Beuys (1981-1986) "I like America and America likes Me" (1974)











Walter de Maria (born in 1935) ligne-desert-Tula











Walter de Maria (born in 1935)











Walter de Maria (born in 1935)mile long drawing (1968)











Walter de Maria (born in 1935)Lightning Field (1974)











Vija Celmins (born in 1938), "Hand Holding a Firing Gun," 1964











Vija Celmins (born in 1938), Explosion at Sea,1966, Oil on canvas 34.3 x59.7cm











Vija Celmins (born in 1938), 1966, Oil on canvas 43.8 x66.7cm



Vija Celmins (born in 1938), Web











Vija Celmins (born in 1938) Night Sky #10-1994-1995 Oil on linen mounted on wood











Paterson Ewen (1925-2002) star-traces-around-polaris-1973











Ilya Kabakov(born in 1933) The Man Who Flew Into Space from His Apartment, 1981-88











Mark Tansey (né en 1949), Action Painting II, 1984











Mark Tansey (né en 1949),the valley of doubt 1990











Mark Tansey (né en 1949),constructing the grand canyon 1990





















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