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Friday, August 24, 2018
MOUNT ETNA (2) PAINTED BY THOMAS COLE
Friday, April 26, 2024
LE MONT HOFFMANN PEINT PAR THOMAS COLE
Mont Hoffmann (3,307 m)
Etats Unis d'Amérique (Californie)
In View of Schroon Mountain, Essex County, New York, After a Storm , oil on board, 1898,
A propos de ce tableau
Grand défenseur de la nature sauvage américaine, Cole a déclaré : « Nous sommes toujours ici dans l' Eden » dans son Essai sur le
paysage américain, publié deux ans avant de peindre cette vue des
Adirondacks. L'artiste a esquissé la scène au début de l'été, mais
lorsqu'il a créé le tableau dans son atelier, il l'a rendu avec l'éclat
spectaculaire de couleurs automnales. Un tel choix avait probablement des
connotations nationalistes ; il a un jour proclamé que l'automne était «
une saison où la forêt américaine surpasse le monde entier en beauté ». Cole
a inclus deux autochtones dans le feuillage du premier plan
droit du tableau. À cette époque, les Adirondacks étaient encore le foyer de
nombreux Amérindiens longtemps après que la plupart aient été expulsés
de force des terres à l'est du fleuve Mississippi. Tout en continuant à
vivre, chasser et pêcher dans la région, ces peuples algonquins et
iroquois ont été contraints d'adapter considérablement leur existence
au milieu de la colonisation et des industries
forestières, minières et touristiques qui en découlèrent.
La montagne
Le mont Hoffmann (3,307m ) est un sommet de la Sierra Nevada, aux États-Unis.- dans le comté de Mariposa, en Californie, au sein de la Yosemite Wilderness, dans le parc national de Yosemite. Dans Un été dans la Sierra, paru en 1911, John Muir indique avoir randonné jusqu'au sommet du « mont Hoffman » le 26 juillet 1869-. Thomas Cole le surnomme Schrroon Mountain dans ce tableau.
Le peintre
Thomas Cole, est un artiste américain, considéré comme le fondateur de la Hudson River School, école de peinture qui s'épanouit aux États-Unis dans la seconde moitié du A9e siècle.
Les œuvres de Cole et ses amis se caractérisent par leur rendu réaliste
et minutieux des paysages américains, notamment des régions sauvages,
et témoignent à la fois de l'influence du romantisme et du naturalisme. Cole fut avant tout paysagiste, il se consacre également à la peinture
allégorique. La plus célèbre de ces allégories est un ensemble de cinq
toiles, Le Cours de l'Empire (ou Destin des Empires),
qui retrace l'évolution d'un même lieu de l'état sauvage à la naissance
de la civilisation, son développement son déclin et sa mort. Cole a été
inspiré par la lecture de l'Histoire de la décadence et de la chute de l'Empire romain d'Edward Gibbon, publié entre 1776 et 1778. L'œuvre se trouve dans la collection de la Société d'Histoire de New York. En 1827, Cole ouvre un studio dans une ferme à Cedar Grove dans la ville de Catskill, état de New-York. Il exécutera une grande partie de son œuvre dans ce lieu. En 1828, Cooper lui commande un paysage inspiré de ses romans, « sans les feuilles d’automne » du Paysage avec une scène du Dernier des Mohicans dont il juge l'effet trop voyant. Entre 1829 et 1832, il effectue un premier séjour en Europe, visitant notamment Londres, Paris et l'Italie. À Londres, il est attiré par les œuvres des paysagistes Turner et Constable. À Paris, il découvre les paysages classiques du 17e siècle et sera influencé par les œuvres de Claude Lorrain. En 1836, Cole épouse Maria Bartow, une des nièces de son propriétaire, faisant de Catskill son lieu de résidence principal. La jeune femme avait alors 23 ans et lui 35. Cole, qui s'intéressait également à l'architecture à une époque où cette profession était moins réglementée qu'aujourd'hui, participe au concours organisé en 1838 pour la construction du siège de l'exécutif à Columbus. Son projet obtint la troisième place et le monument final est une synthèse entre les projets des trois premiers lauréats. Le premier fils du couple, Theodore Alexander Cole, est né le 1er janvier de cette même année. L'année suivante naît Mary Bartow Cole, le 23 septembre 1839. Cole effectue alors un second séjour européen, d-e 1841 à 1842, accumulant les dessins et les esquisses dont il tirera les tableaux peints plus tard dans son studio de Catskill. Il exerce une influence significative sur ses pairs, notamment sur Asher Brown Durand, Jasper Francis Cropsey et Frederic Edwin Church. Ce dernier fut d'ailleurs son élève de 1844 à 1846.
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2024 - Gravir les montagnes en peinture
Un blog de Francis Rousseau
Monday, September 26, 2022
THE CASTKILL MOUNTAINS PAINTED BY THOMAS COLE
Catskill Mountains (1,279 m - 4,180 ft)
United States of America (New York State)
In Castkill Mountains House, The 4 elements, oil on canvas, 1843-44. private collection
The mountains
The Catskill Mountains (1,279 m - 4,180 ft) also known as The Catskills,
are a physiographic province of the larger Appalachian Mountains,
located in southeastern New York. As a cultural and geographic region,
the Catskills are generally defined as those areas close to or within
the borders of the Catskill Park, a 700,000-acre (2,800 km2) forest
preserve forever protected from many forms of development under New York
state law.
Geologically, the Catskills are a mature dissected plateau, a once-flat
region subsequently uplifted and eroded into sharp relief by
watercourses. The Catskills form the northeastern end of the Allegheny
Plateau (also known as the Appalachian Plateau).
The Catskills are well known in American culture, both as the setting
for many 19th-century Hudson River School paintings and as the favored
destination for vacationers from New York City in the mid-20th century.
The region's many large resorts gave countless young stand-up comedians
an opportunity to hone their craft. In addition, the Catskills have long
been a haven for artists, musicians, and writers, especially in and
around the towns of Phoenicia and Woodstock.
The painter
Thomas Cole (1801– 848) was
an American artist known for his landscape and history paintings. He is
regarded as the founder of the Hudson River School, an American art
movement that flourished in the mid-19th century. Cole's work is known
for its romantic portrayal of the American wilderness.
In New York,
Cole sold five paintings to George W. Bruen, who financed a summer trip
to the Hudson Valley where the artist produced two Views of Coldspring,
the Catskill Mountain House and painted famous Kaaterskill Falls and
the ruins of Fort Putnam. Returning to New York, he displayed five
landscapes in the window of William Colman's bookstore; according to the
New York Evening Post Two Views of Coldspring were purchased by Mr. A.
Seton, who lent them to the American Academy of the Fine Arts annual
exhibition in 1826. This garnered Cole the attention of John Trumbull,
Asher B. Durand, and William Dunlap. Among the paintings was a landscape
called "View of Fort Ticonderoga from Gelyna". Trumbull was especially
impressed with the work of the young artist and sought him out, bought
one of his paintings, and put him into contact with a number of his
wealthy friends including Robert Gilmor of Baltimore and Daniel
Wadsworth of Hartford, who became important patrons of the artist.
Cole was primarily a painter of landscapes, but he also painted
allegorical works. Cole influenced his artistic peers, especially Asher
B. Durand and Frederic Edwin Church, who studied with Cole from 1844 to
1846. Cole spent the years 1829 to 1832 and 1841 to 1842 abroad, mainly
in England and Italy.
Thomas Cole died at Catskill on February 11,
1848. The fourth highest peak in the Catskills is named Thomas Cole
Mountain in his honor.
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2022 - Wandering Vertexes...
by Francis Rousseau
Wednesday, December 18, 2019
THE CASTKILLS PAINTED BY THOMAS COLE
The mountains
The Catskill Mountains (1,279 m - 4,180 ft) also known as The Catskills, are a physiographic province of the larger Appalachian Mountains, located in southeastern New York. As a cultural and geographic region, the Catskills are generally defined as those areas close to or within the borders of the Catskill Park, a 700,000-acre (2,800 km2) forest preserve forever protected from many forms of development under New York state law.
Geologically, the Catskills are a mature dissected plateau, a once-flat region subsequently uplifted and eroded into sharp relief by watercourses. The Catskills form the northeastern end of the Allegheny Plateau (also known as the Appalachian Plateau).
The Catskills are well known in American culture, both as the setting for many 19th-century Hudson River School paintings and as the favored destination for vacationers from New York City in the mid-20th century. The region's many large resorts gave countless young stand-up comedians an opportunity to hone their craft. In addition, the Catskills have long been a haven for artists, musicians, and writers, especially in and around the towns of Phoenicia and Woodstock.
The painter
Thomas Cole (1801-1848) was an American artist known for his landscape and history paintings. He is regarded as the founder of the Hudson River School, an American art movement that flourished in the mid-19th century. Cole's work is known for its romantic portrayal of the American wilderness.
In New York, Cole sold five paintings to George W. Bruen, who financed a summer trip to the Hudson Valley where the artist produced two Views of Coldspring, the Catskill Mountain House and painted famous Kaaterskill Falls and the ruins of Fort Putnam. Returning to New York, he displayed five landscapes in the window of William Colman's bookstore; according to the New York Evening Post Two Views of Coldspring were purchased by Mr. A. Seton, who lent them to the American Academy of the Fine Arts annual exhibition in 1826. This garnered Cole the attention of John Trumbull, Asher B. Durand, and William Dunlap. Among the paintings was a landscape called "View of Fort Ticonderoga from Gelyna". Trumbull was especially impressed with the work of the young artist and sought him out, bought one of his paintings, and put him into contact with a number of his wealthy friends including Robert Gilmor of Baltimore and Daniel Wadsworth of Hartford, who became important patrons of the artist.
Cole was primarily a painter of landscapes, but he also painted allegorical works. Cole influenced his artistic peers, especially Asher B. Durand and Frederic Edwin Church, who studied with Cole from 1844 to 1846. Cole spent the years 1829 to 1832 and 1841 to 1842 abroad, mainly in England and Italy.
Thomas Cole died at Catskill on February 11, 1848. The fourth highest peak in the Catskills is named Thomas Cole Mountain in his honor.
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2019 - Wandering Vertexes...
by Francis Rousseau
Tuesday, October 3, 2017
MOUNT KATAHDIN PAINTED BY MARSDEN HARTLEY
Marsden Hartley was an American Modernist painter, poet, and essayist.
Hartley began his art training at the Cleveland Institute of Art after his family moved to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1892. He won a scholarship to the Cleveland School of Art.
In 1898, at age 22, he moved to New York City to study painting at the New York School of Art under William Merritt Chase, and then attended the National Academy of Design. Hartley was a great admirer of Albert Pinkham Ryder and visited his studio in Greenwich Village as often as possible. His friendship with Ryder, in addition to the writings of Walt Whitman and American transcendentalists Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson, inspired Hartley to view art as a spiritual quest.
Hartley first traveled to Europe in April 1912, and he became acquainted with Gertrude Stein's circle of Avant-garde writers and artists in Paris. Stein, along with Hart Crane and Sherwood Anderson, encouraged Hartley to write as well as paint.
In 1913, Hartley moved to Berlin, where he continued to paint and befriended the painters Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc. He also collected Bavarian folk art. His work during this period was a combination of abstraction and German Expressionism, fueled by his personal brand of mysticism.
In Berlin, Hartley developed a close relationship with a Prussian lieutenant, Karl von Freyburg. References to Freyburg were a recurring motif in Hartley's work, most notably in Portrait of a German Officer (1914). Freyburg's subsequent death during the war hit Hartley hard, and he afterward idealized their relationship. Many scholars believe Hartley to have been gay, and have interpreted his work regarding Freyburg as embodying his homosexual feelings for him.
Hartley finally returned to the U.S. in early 1916. He lived in Europe again from 1921 to 1930, when he moved back to the U.S. for good. He painted throughout the country, in Massachusetts, New Mexico, California, and New York. He returned to Maine in 1937, after declaring that he wanted to become "the painter of Maine" and depict American life at a local level. This aligned Hartley with the Regionalism movement, a group of artists active from the early- to-mid 20th century that attempted to represent a distinctly "American art." He continued to paint in Maine, primarily scenes around Lovell and the Corea coast, until his death in Ellsworth in 1943. His ashes were scattered on the Androscoggin River. Most of his mountains paintings of Maine are nowadays in the MET collections.