Back To School with Winslow Homer (1836-1910)

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Winslow Homer (1836-1910) Blackboard

Winslow Homer (1836-1910) The Country School
Winslow Homer (1836-1910) Homework

Winslow Homer (1836-1910) The Noon Recess
Winslow Homer (1836-1910) Country School
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Late Summer on the Atlantic Coast by William Merritt Chase (1848-1916)

.American artist William Merritt Chase (1848-1916) had a way of capturing the light of late summer on the Atlantic coast in everyday landscapes. In these paintings, he uses his wife and his children as models. He wrote, "Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished."

William Merritt Chase (1849 - 1916) A Sunny Day at Shinnecock Bay 1892

William Merritt Chase (1849 - 1916) On the Beach, Shinnecock 1895
William Merritt Chase (1849 - 1916) On the Lake in Central Park 1894
William Merritt Chase (1849 - 1916) Beach Scene Morning at Canoe Place

William Merritt Chase (1849 - 1916) Summertime 1886

William Merritt Chase (1849 - 1916) Idle Hours, ca. 1894.

William Merritt Chase (1849 - 1916) The Big Bayberry Bush 1895

William Merritt Chase (1849 - 1916) Mrs Chase in Prospect Park 1886

William Merritt Chase (1849 - 1916) Gathering Autumn Flowers 1894
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American Sisters By Thomas Sully (1783-1872)

.Thomas Sully (1783-1872). The Coleman Sisters. 1844

Thomas Sully (1783-1872). Mary and Emily McEuen 1823

Thomas Sully (1783-1872). The Walsh Sisters.
Thomas Sully (1783-1872). The Leland Sisters 1830

Thomas Sully (1783-1872). Blanche And Rosalie. 1842.

American Women by William Henry Snyder (1829–1910)

William Henry Snyder (1829–1910) Quiet Time
William Henry Snyder (1829–1910) Darning by the Hearth
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19th-Century American Women by William Page (1811-1885)

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William Page (1811-1885) Daughter of William Page 1838
William Page (1811-1885) Charlotte Cushman 1853
William Page (1811–1885) Mary Page, Daughter of Artist William Page
William Page (1811-1885) Sarah Augusta Page 1843.

John Singer Sargent's (1856-1925) Elegant American Ladies with Japonisme Fans

John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925). Etta Durham

The painter of these images of well-to-do women holding fans influenced by the Japonisme style, John Singer Sargent, was one of the American artists who went to study in Paris. Sargent did not paint many trendy compositions, but his fans fit into part of the Asian influence of the late 19th century.

Sargent went to study in Paris, because it was the place to be for any serious art student who could afford to travel there. After the American Civil War, Paris was a bustling cosmopolitan city & the capital of the western art world. Art students went to Paris to enroll in one of the many art schools there, seeking to polish their academic education. More established artists used Paris as a proving ground, leveraging exhibiting in its important international exhibitions to establish their artistic reputations.

A few made Paris their home, becoming part of a significant American expatriate community in the French capital. As the novelist Henry James reported of the "irresistible city" in an 1887 article, "it sounds like a paradox, but it is a very simple truth, that when today we look for American art we find it mainly in Paris. When we find it out of Paris, we at least find a good deal of Paris in it."
John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925). Mrs Ian Hamilton (Jean Muir)
John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925). Mrs Joseph Chamberlain
John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925). Mrs Thomas Wodehouse Legh
John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925). Mrs Hamilton McKown Twombly (Florence Adele Vanderbilt)
John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925). Mrs Cecil Wade John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925). Countess Clary Aldringen Threse Kinsky
John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925). Mrs Mahlon Day Sands (Mary Hartpeace)
John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925). Ada Rehan
John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925). Mrs Frederick Barnard
John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925). Mrs Henry White John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925). Mrs William Playfair.

The Last Rose of Summer by American Artists

Frank W. Benson (1862-1951) Eleanor Holding a Shell, North Haven, Maine

Frank W. Benson (1862-1951) Four Children at North Haven

Frank W. Benson (1862-1951) Girls in the Garden

Frank W. Benson (1862-1951) My Daughters

Frank W. Benson (1862-1951) Eleanor
Frank W. Benson (1862-1951) Sunlight

Frank W. Benson (1862-1951) The Sisters 1899
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Karl Anderson (1874-1956) The Apple Gatherers 1912
Seymour Joseph Guy (1824-1910) Picking Apples
Frank Weston Benson (1862 – 1951) Hilltop

Frank Weston Benson (1862 – 1951) My Daughter Elizabeth
Frank Weston Benson (1862 – 1951) Summer

Robert Lewis Reid (1862 – 1929) A Summer Girl

Frank Weston Benson (1862 – 1951) Sunlight

Thomas P. Anshutz (1851-1912) Margaret Perot. .