Posts Tagged ‘USA’

Landscape paintings depicting scenes from the top of North America to the tip of South America
are on display at the Art Gallery of Ontario until Sept 2015.   The collection centers on just over 100 works that were painted between the early 1800s and the eary 1900s.

7 or 8 people in an art gallery looking at paintings that are hanging on the walls

below:  part of a painting, ‘Montmorency Falls’ by Guido Carmignani (Parma Italy 1838-1909)
oil on canvas,  1869

close up of part of a painting - Montmorency Falls by Guido Carmignani 1869, Italian hunters at the base of the falls (even though they are in Quebec) in summer time.

below: Fall Plowing, by Grant Wood (b. and d. Iowa USA),  1931, oil on canvas

painting on a wall in an art gallery of fields being harvested by Grant Wood

 

A man is looking at a wall of paintings. The wall is painted red. It is in an art gallery

close up of part of a painting including part of the intricately carved frame.  THree men getting into a boat at the edge of a river

 below: part of “The Sidewheeler, the ‘City of St. Paul’ on the Mississippi River, Dubuque Iowa”
by Alfred Thompson Bricher (American), oil on canvas,  1872

close up of part of an oil painting showing an old paddle wheel steam boat on a river

I wandered away again.

This time I went to Rochester New York where I discovered a lot of great murals!
You can find more on their own page.

 

mural of a woman, very realistic looking, lying on her side with her eyes closed. It covers two garage doors.

Last week I spent a few days in southern California where I found a lot of graffiti, street art and murals.

I have started to put together a collection of photos from this trip and you can find them on their own page or by using the menu at the top of the page,  Worldwide → USA → California murals

street art piece of Ronald Regan holding a sign that says 'Legislative Influence for sale'