Nature-inspired artwork Collection

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High Point: Shandaken Mountains 1853 Asher Brown Durand American This work, first shown at the National Academy of Design's annual exhibition in New York City in 1853

Winter Landscape. For this winter landscape, Koekkoek chose a hilly region in Gelderland or the German region of the Lower Rhine

Landscape after a poem by Wang Wei dated 1323 Tang Di Chinese Tang Di was one of the first southern scholar-artists to revive the Northern Song landscape traditions of the tenth

Drunk in Autumn Woods ca. 1702 Shitao (Zhu Ruoji) Chinese Exploring the theme of intoxication, Shitao makes us reel with the unsteadiness of his figures and landscape

A Panoramic Landscape with a Country Estate ca. 1649 Philips Koninck Dutch This ambitious work is one of the artist's first compositions on a large scale

Landscape (Wooded Approach to a Town) ca. 1508 Fra Bartolomeo (Bartolomeo di Paolo del Fattorino) Italian Dated about 1508

Sketchbook of New England and Pennsylvania Landscape and Marine Subjects 1886 William Trost Richards American This sketchbook contains forty-six drawings in graphite and ink

The Belated Party on Mansfield Mountain 1858 Jerome B. Thompson Thompson earned a reputation for combining the breadth of Hudson River School landscape painting with the anecdotal appeal of

The Dream of the Shepherd (Der Traum des Hirten) 1896 Ferdinand Hodler Swiss In the lower, terrestrial portion of this composition, the shepherd kneels in an Alpine landscape, while in the upper

Near Newport 1869 Newport. In this late work, John Frederick Kensett portrayed the Rhode Island coast with spare, yet meticulous forms suffused with light and quietude

The Forest of Arden 1888-97 (?), reworked 1908 (?) Albert Pinkham Ryder American Beginning in the 1880s Ryder often turned to literary themes as subjects for his paintings

Pulling Oars under Clearing Autumn Skies (Distant Mountains) 1540-1550 China. Landscape painting offered artists the opportunity to create visual poems about the beauty and continuity of nature

Solitude 1818 United States. Joshua Shaw was one of the earliest landscape painters to work in America, practicing in Baltimore and Philadelphia upon emigrating from England in 1817

Tree Branches 1852-1908 Charles Reginald Aston British Aston came from Birmingham and trained as an architect before turning to landscape painting

Young Herdsmen with Cows ca. 1655-60 Aelbert Cuyp Dutch Sun-streaked clouds scudding across the sky dominate this placid landscape

Lozenge Composition with Yellow, Black, Blue, Red, and Gray 1921 Netherlands. Although Piet Mondrianis abstractions may seem far removed from nature, his basic vision was rooted in landscape

Coming Squall (Nahant Beach with a Summer Shower) Made 1835 United States. As the first American artist to identify himself as a landscape painter

Polycrates Crucifixion 1663-1665 Italy. Salvator Rosa developed a kind of dramatic landscape in which nature is presented as wild, dangerous, and filled with striking effects of light, broken trees

Mount Athos Carved as a Monument to Alexander the Great 1796 France. Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, a leading landscape artist in late-18th-century France

Polycrates and the Fisherman 1663-1665 Italy. Salvator Rosa developed a kind of dramatic landscape in which nature is presented as wild, dangerous, and filled with striking effects of light

Interrupted Reading 1865-1875 France. Interrupted Reading is among the most compelling of Camille Corotis late figure paintings

View of Cotopaxi 1857 United States. View of Cotopaxi brings together in visual form scientific, religious, political, and cultural ideas in the mid-19th century

Landscape with the Ruins of the Castle of Egmond 1650-1655 Holland. The heroic but ephemeral edifices of humankind and the enduring power

The Interior of the Palm House on the Pfaueninsel Near Potsdam 1834 Germany. Carl Blechen is regarded as a pivotal figure in nineteenth-century German painting; his short career marks the transition

Landscape with Philemon and Baucis, from Large Landscapes 1644-1659 Netherlands. Toward the end of his life, Peter Paul Rubens realized a series of six large landscape prints

Water Lilies 1906 France. iOne instant, one aspect of nature contains it all, i said Claude Monet, referring to his late masterpieces

Distant View of the Meadows at s-Graveland. At the time that Van Os made this painting and the one of
Distant View of the Meadows at s-Graveland.At the time that Van Os made this painting and the one of the s-Graveland canal

Small Bird on a Crepe Myrtle Branch 19th century Tsubaki Chinzan Japanese At a time when the ukiyo-e tradition was emphasizing scenes of contemporary life in the urban world

Sibertz Cap, Mount Tacoma Aug 23 1885 (from Sketchbook X) 1885 William Trost Richards American This sketchbook contains fifty-one drawings in graphite and ink

Forest Scene Johann Hermann Carmiencke This drawing of broken and tangled trees is quite similar in style and subject to nature studies by Hudson River School draftsmen such as John F

Sketch for View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm (The Oxbow) 1836 Thomas Cole American Cole inspired many of his colleagues, including his most important student

Snowy Gorge Utagawa Hiroshige Japanese Hiroshige began his career at about age fifteen as a student of Utagawa Toyohiro (1773-1828), who was known for his prints of landscapes and beautiful women

Study of a Palm Tree (recto); Mountain Landscape (verso) ca. 1635-40 Nicolas Poussin French This rare, double-sided sheet comprises two studies by Nicolas Poussin

Charles River, Cambridge, Massachusetts (from Sketchbook of New England and Pennsylvania Landscape and Marine Subjects) 1886 William Trost Richards American This sketchbook contains forty-six

[Fontainebleau Forest] early 1860s Eugene Cuvelier French In September 1856, at the age of nineteen, Eugene Cuvelier visited Barbizon

The Trout Pool 1870 Worthington Whittredge Born in Ohio, Whittredge began his career as a sign and portrait painter in Cincinnati

Camp A: Log Cabin in Woods (from Sketchbook X) 1885 William Trost Richards American This sketchbook contains fifty-one drawings in graphite and ink

View of Saint-Valery-sur-Somme 1896-98 Edgar Degas French Degas's provencal painting of Saint-Valery-sur-Somme
View of Saint-Valery-sur-Somme 1896-98 Edgar Degas French Degas's provencal painting of Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, a medieval town on the Picardy coast northwest of Paris

Sketch from Nature ca. 1855 Asher Brown Durand American In his series of essays published in 1855, "Letters on Landscape Painting

Wooded Landscape with a River, Castle, and Town Beyond 1611 Denijs van Alsloot Flemish The appeal of this elaborate landscape lies in its harmoniously balanced compositional structure

Hagar in the Wilderness 1835 Camille Corot French This picture, shown at the Salon of 1835, is the earliest of four large, ambitious biblical paintings that Corot exhibited in the 1830s and 1840s

View of Kensington Gardens, London 1812 John Linnell British Compact, luminous, and intense, this unkempt view of Kensington Gardens is deliberately unidealized

Summer Mountains ca. 1050 Attributed to Qu Ding Chinese Between the years 900 and 1100, Chinese paint­ers created visions of landscape that depicted the sublimity of creation

Charles River June 22 86 (from Sketchbook VII) 1886 William Trost Richards American This sketchbook contains forty-six drawings in graphite and ink

Hilly Landscape with Three Figures 1675-1749 Aureliano Milani Italian Like his compatriot and exact contemporary Donato Creti the painter, draftsman

An Overgrown Mineshaft ca. 1824 Carl Gustav Carus German Carus was a leading painter of German Romanticism, second in importance only to his close friend Caspar David Friedrich

Winter Landscape with Skaters and Fishermen 1647 Jan van Goyen Dutch Known for tonal, monochromatic landscape paintings in his later years

Pine Tree at Karasaki 1857 Utagawa Hiroshige Japanese The watery views around Lake Biwa (the Omi region) were treated in classic fashion, transposed from the "Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang

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