Art Sunday; Edward hopper

EDWARD HOPPER

I’ve been thinking about all the good things that are specifically American, Hopper must be the most specifically American painter there is. Everything about his work looks and feels ‘American’……………I can't think of an American painter I like more.



a little information..............
Edward Hopper was born in 1882 and grew up in Nyack, a small town in New York State. He studied illustration for a short period, then painting at New York School of Art under legendary masters William Merritt Chase and Robert Henri.
( really like this one, love the colours, it reminds me of some of the Scottish colourists work.)
 He visited Europe three times (from 1906 to 1907, in 1909 and 1910) and his experiences in Paris, above all, made a lasting mark on him: he remained a lifelong Francophile, even after settling permanently in New York in 1913.

Despite his imposing physical presence – he was six foot two – he was famous for his reserve, and very rarely wrote or spoke about his work. He died at the age of 84 and his work enjoyed the esteem of critics and the public throughout his career, despite the success of the up-and-coming avant-garde movements, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art.

In 1948 the magazine “Look” named him one of America’s greatest artists; in 1950 the Whitney Museum dedicated an important retrospective to him, and in 1956 he appeared on the cover of “Time”.
In 1967, the year of his death, he represented the United States at the prestigious Bienal di São Paulo.

Since then Hopper’s work has been celebrated in numerous exhibitions and has inspired countless painters, poets and filmmakers. In a 1995 essay the great novelist John Updike paid an eloquent tribute to his “calm, silent, stoic, luminous, classic” works.


information taken  From;
 http://www.edwardhopper.it/?IDC=33


and lots more information here;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Hopper

This one is my personal favourite, no idea why, I like the colours and I love the look of the sea, it looks real and inviting


and to finish

The emotionally charged work of Edward Hopper, American Realist and the swinging music of Benny Goodman. With some quotes and a poem thrown in for good measure!

Amazing portrait painter, shame about the politics.

Maybe you will appreciate the artistry more if you just turn the sound off.

Art Sunday; The gardens of Daniel Ridgway

ART SUNDAY; THE GARDENS OF DANIEL RIDGWAY

Many people seem to have spent time in their gardens yesterday and to celebrate the beauty of our gardens and the joy we all experience from them, I’m showing the garden paintings of Daniel Ridgway, American artist, 1839-1924. I could happily live with anyone of these gardens.

http://www.danielridgwayknight.org/

‘’Daniel Ridgway Knight (March 15, 1839 - March 9, 1924) was an American artist born at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was a pupil at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, under Gleyre, and later worked in the private studio of Meissonier. After 1872 he lived in France, having a house and studio at Poissy on the Seine.

He painted peasant women out of doors with great popular success. He was awarded the silver medal and Cross of the Legion of Honor, Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1889, and was made a Knight of the Royal Order of St. Michael of Bavaria, Munich, 1893, and receiving the gold medal of honor from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1893. His son, Louis Aston Knight (1873 - 1948), is also known as a landscape painter.’’

 

Janet Smith, American artist

Art Sunday; Janet Fish

Janet Fish

biography info here
http://varoregistry.org/fish/bio.html

These pictures don't seem to enlarge , I'll post them in an album so you can get a better look.

http://forgetmenot525.multiply.com/photos/album/260/Janet_Smith_American_artist

Janet Fish, was born in 1938 in Boston. Her grandfather, Clark Voorhees was an American Impressionist, her father an art history teacher, and her mother, Florence Whistler Fish, a sculptor and potter.

She studied sculpture and printmaking at Smith College and Skowhegan Summer School.

She was one of the first women artists to receive her MFA from Yale University in 1963.

Fish received her first one-woman exhibition in 1971 where her work sold out before the opening, and during the next several years became an established New York artist.

Her exhibitions include: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1972 and 1974; The Whitney Museum of American Art, 1973; Brooklyn Museum, 1976; Isetan Museum, Tokoyo, 1985, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C., 1991, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1994.

She was also included in "Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move Into the Mainstream," Cincinnati Art Museum, 1989.

Her works appear in the collections of The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Dallas Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and The Whitney Museum of American Art.

Read the Art Review – NewYorkArtWorld here

http://www.newyorkartworld.com/reviews/fish.html

Art Sunday; American Art, Fletcher Martin.

Fletcher Martin (1904-1979)

He was born in 1904 in Palisade, Colorado, a small western town where his father ran the local newspaper. Martin grew up in a family that moved to towns throughout the West.  He showed an early interest in art, primarily from circus posters and amateur painters.


 At age 12, he began working as a printer and only later did he start to paint. He was known mostly for his painting of western subjects but has also  worked as a muralist and illustrator.  His artist's skills were largely self-taught. During his career he taught art at the University of Florida, State University of Iowa, the University of Minnesota, San Antonio Art Institute, and Washington State University.

 He served as a war correspondent for Life magazine during World War II. He was the recipient of the Walter Lippencott Prize in 1947 and the Benjamin Altman Prize in 1949.

His works can be found in the collections of Abbott Laboratories, Brandice University, the Cranbrook Institute, the Denver Art Museum, and the Library of Congress.

Sealing the Crevice
Watercolor on paper

Sealing a fault in the granite wall of the forebay reservoir for the Grand Coulee Third
 powerplant, Columbia Basin Project.

The Columbia Basin Project is a major water resource development in central Washington State with Grand Coulee Dam as the project's primary feature. The power plant at Grand Coulee supplies much of the power needed by the Pacific Northwest. The generators of the third powerhouse alone provide sufficient electricity to meet the needs of both Seattle and Portland.

Inside the Turbine

Oil on canvas, 30" x 42"

Workmen inside the turbine scroll case, Grand Coulee Power Plant, Columbia Basin Project, Washington.

The Columbia Basin Project is a major water resource development in central Washington State with Grand Coulee Dam as the project's primary feature. The power plant at Grand Coulee supplies much of the power needed by the Pacific Northwest. The generators of the third powerhouse alone provide sufficient electricity to meet the needs of both Seattle and Portland.

Pyramid Lake

Watercolor, 22" x 28"
Rocks at Pyramid Lake, Nevada

Pyramid Lake is the terminus for the Truckee River which begins high in the Sierra Nevada at Lake Tahoe. Water from the Truckee and Carson Rivers is used to irrigate lands on the Newlands Project in the vicinity of Fallon, Nevada. The Newlands Project was originally known as the Truckee-Carson Project at was the first project authorized for construction by the then United States Reclamation Service, now the Bureau of Reclamation. The project was renamed the Newlands Project in honor of Francis Newlands, the author of the 1902 Reclamation Act and a staunch supporter of western reclamation.

Song saturday; Janis Joplin

The first video is Janis Joplin singing
 ''Me and Bobby Mcgee''

The first recording of Me & Bobby McGee in the studio. Janis sounds amazing and completely nails it in one take. Is raw and unedited - features studio conversations at beginning. Enjoy!

The second video is Janis singing  
''To love somebody''

And the last one is
''Cry Baby''

Paintings by contemporary American artist Connie Tom


   

Art Sunday; Tamara Adams

Tamara Adams;

 

 

I found this artist while looking around the web site of the ‘’Attic Gallery, Portland’’

http://www.atticgallery.com/genwebpage.ihtml?formid=1

The Attic Gallery began in l973 with a showing of Sidonie Caron's paintings. Today this gallery is the biggest in Portland and features the work of 65 contemporary artists

 

 

Tamara Adams is a young, contemporary, self-taught artist who believes she inherited her talent from her grandfather. Some of her earliest memories are of visiting her grandfather's studio where he painted and taught art classes. It was he who encouraged her to develop her art.

A Native Oregonian, Tamara paints in acrylic on canvas. She relies heavily on her imagination and tends not to use models or any other outside influence. She has a belief in the power of art to comfort and enrich the soul.

In Tamara's words, "It doesn't seem satisfying to say that I paint what I see, and yet it is what I see, wherever I go, whoever I am with, along with the things that surround me inspiring me to paint"

I chose to show her work this week because to me; while they may not rival Titian or Degas in the masterpiece steaks, they are warm and pleasant and have a touch of the exotic. I could even go so far as to say they celebrate the richness of diversity and rejoice in inclusiveness.  Perhaps I’m being a little fanciful here, but this is what I see in this work. The rest of her paintings are here.

http://forgetmenot525.multiply.com/photos/album/202/Art_Sunday_Tamara_Adams_illustrations