EasygoingWilliam Trost Richards "along the Atlantic Ocean" (1870).There are not too many exhibitions that seem perfectly at home at the Nassau County Museum of art, the Georgia mansion that once belonged to the family of Henry Clay Frick, the founder of United States steel.Turning to the next item
above, Frank Anderson's breakneck mountain, Highlands of the Hudson "(1878). At the bottom, long island Thomas Moran landscape "(1902).However, the current exhibition of 30 end 19-century Hudson River School of painting, "a poetic journey: the Hudson River School paintings from the grey collection," is one of them. Pictures from the same era as the House, and they are internal in scale, made hanging in rooms like those at the Museum.The paintings are based on Brookville Collectors David and Laura gray. They are a great group of paintings purchased for many, many years with such dedication, insight and patience, rare among private collectors. He was also a shrewd purchase, for these days, it would be impossible to assemble a collection of similar quality and durability. The parties are working most of Hudson River School artists, including Thomas Moran, Albert Bierstadt, George Inness and Thomas Cole.I had previously considered part of the collections at museums in Connecticut and Westchester, but this looks particularly good here. He sparkles as much for the rare beauty of works with the key decades of the 1850 and 1860 's when the second — and probably more talented and famous — generation of artists of the Hudson River School emerged after the death of Thomas Cole, the founder of the school.Works poorly organized into several themes around which the collection of pictures tend to be grouped. In the first group are earlier than others and usually more classically inspired. Here you'll find Cole "Tower in the Moonlight" (1838), inspired by a richly descriptive narrative poems, "love", the English romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Formally, however, it reminds you of the 17-century French neoclassical Painter Claude Lorrain.Foliage and wildlife tend to dominate the second group, which includes some fine paintings. If I had to pick one to be delayed, it would be Thomas Moran in "Long Island landscape" (1902), which, although much later than many other works here reminds us of long island once looked like. It is a bright painting of the mature trees and thick underbrush along the banks of the stream, a study in calm but the rugged beauty of the northeast coastal landscape.From here the show around the works of the artists of the second generation of Hudson River School, associated with the movement of the lûministy of American art. Luminism is the mid-19th century landscape, painting style characterized by Misty effects of light and atmosphere and invisible stroke. Here famous examples include aerial panoramas» October afternoon at Juniata "(1879), Sanford Robinson Gifford and" Arcadia "(circa 1850), John Frederick Kensett.Of course Hudson River School got its name because the principal artists painted the scenery along the river. There is no shortage of these kinds of work here, among them Frank Anderson's breakneck mountain, Highlands of the Hudson "(1878), Lemuel Maynard Wiles Bay near West Point" (1867), George Inness ' throughout the Hudson Valley foothills of the Catskills "(1868) and Samuel Colman in" barges on the Hudson "(1867) may show the best work and a certain candidate, the term masterpiece, whatever that means these days. A simple, tranquil river scene, it is a very atmospheric, with a dramatic sky and shimmering water.There is a small section dedicated to seascapes and scenes from the water, and then a group of the American West. Two paintings of animals at sunset in the vast and open landscape in Albert Bierstadt set the overall tone, followed by a sharp view of Yosemite, Thomas Hill, painted around 1887. He's looking down Yosemite Valley, the Merced River, with natural attractions as Sentinel rock visible in the distance. Scene enveloped in a light morning mist.I stood there looking at this job for a while, eventually, imagining that I was there, standing on a cliff, looking down into the Valley; I could almost feel the wind on my face.Eventually I drifted back to reality, collected my laptop and left the Museum. Thinking about this experience later, I recalled that so nice to experience great work of art: for a short time, he makes you forget where you are and be transported to another place and time.
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