Browsing: American Painting

Two women watch sailboats beside a lake as summer light, elegant clothing, stillness, and nature create a timeless image of modern femininity.

A woman stands against a luminous sky as wind, light, parasol, and posture transform her presence into an image of grace and quiet strength.

Women and children rest beneath beach parasols as summer light, shadow, sea, and suspended movement create a quiet American Impressionist memory.

Charles Courtney Curran places four women upon a mountain summit, using height, open sky, pastel color, and strong light to explore female subjectivity, bodily freedom, and the modern relationship between woman and nature.

Paxton’s Rose and Blue explores the female figure, withdrawn gaze, suspended intention, mirror, color, light, and psychological stillness within a Boston School interior.

Frank W. Benson’s Summer Afternoon explores the female figure, summer light, open space, waiting, stillness, and the slowed perception of time through American Impressionism.

Elizabeth Okie Paxton’s The Open Window explores the female figure through interior space, sewing, waiting, light, thought, and a gaze directed toward an unseen exterior.

Childe Hassam’s sunset landscape uses free Impressionist brushwork, saturated warm color, a low horizon, and broad atmospheric space to explore light, time, memory, and the emotional experience of nature.

Edward Dufner’s Summer Days combines a mother and child, lakeside shade, pastel color, soft reflections, and diffused light to explore silence, memory, summer, and figurative harmony within American Impressionism.

Curran’s At the Theatre combines theatre boxes, audience, orchestra pit, artificial light, red velvet, golden railings, and a distant stage to explore spectatorship, social display, urban leisure, and the relationship between private and public space.