Grand Canal, Venice

Grand Canal, Venice , 1898, Thomas Moran , Oil on Canvas 

Charles Bridge

Charles Bridge, Prague, Oskar Kokoschka 1934

Christina's World

Christina's World, 1948, Andrew Wyeth

Ruins in the Roman Campagna, with Claudian Aqueduct

Ruins in the Roman Campagna, with Claudian Aqueduct , Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot , 1826-28

The Sea Viewed from the Heights of Dieppe

The Sea Viewed from the Heights of Dieppe, 1852, Eugene Delacroix

Harvest

Harvest, Vincent van Gogh, 1888, Oil on Canvas

End of the Working Day

End of the Working Day, 1887, Jules Breton

San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk

San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk, Claude Monet, 1912

Landscape near Murnau with Locomotive

Vasily Kandinsky, Landscape near Murnau with Locomotive (Landschaft bei Murnau mit Lokomotive), 1909. Oil on board, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Spring Series:The White Orchard

The White Orchard, Vincent van Gogh, 1888.

And, Happy Birthday Vincent!

Spring Series: The Pink Orchard

The Pink Orchard, Vincent Van Gogh, 1888

Spring Series: Peach Tree in Blossom

Peach Tree in Blossom, Vincent Van Gogh, 1888

Spring Series: Flowering Peach Trees

Flowering Peach Trees, Vincent van Gogh, 1888

Winter Landscape

Winter Landscape, Alexey Savrasov 1873

Syria by the sea...

Syria by the sea, Frederic Edwin Church ( 1873) 

The biggest argument for visiting Detroit in my view. 

Here's what Geoff Dyer wrote about it ' ....It wasn’t van Gogh that did it for me that afternoon, but Frederic Edwin Church. The painting was called Syria by the Sea (1873) and showed ruined columns of antiquity bathed in the elegiac light of the declining sun. A caption explained that the painting depicted ‘a civilization in ruins, succumbing to the forces of nature. The crumbling buildings, overgrown with vegetation, symbolize nature’s power over humanity and its structures.’

Windmill on a Polder Waterway

Windmill on a Polder Waterway ( In the month of July), Paul Joseph Constantin Gabriel, 1889

Rapids on the Nakabusa River

Rapids on the Nakabusa River, Yoshida Hiroshi

Ideal Landscape with Trees

Venice, 1899

Venice, 1899, Roger Fry

Independence or Death

I must apologize for my patchy contributions to the group here. Hopefully, I should be able to contribute more regularly. I had been thinking about doing a series on South American painters and while was looking about stumbled upon the brazilian painters. I was surprised to see how little we knew about them. Hence the following:

Starting with the well known Independence or Death by Pedro Americo, which depicts the moment of Independence for Brazil from Portugal.

Independence or Death, Pedro Americo