Tuesday, 29 October 2013

Landscape Painting at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC


I wish I'd taken this self-guided tour brochure with me today, although it scarcely mentions the great Dutch landscape artists.

A few snaps from the NGA collection:


 Natural Arch at Capri ,William Stanley Haseltine-
 not Durdle Door or Monet's Cliff at Etretat  or Courbet's
or this scene from Homer's Odyssey




Two outdoor conversation pieces worthy of a John Berger or Ann Bermingham commentary:


Arthur Devis

(Charles Harrison discusses another Devis painting, The James Family (1751)
 in his essay "The Effects of Landscape" in Landscape and Power (ed. W.J.T.Mitchell, 2nd ed., 2002)



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