Metropolitan Museum of Art | Storia del Museo

Le prime radici del Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met) risalgono al 1866 a Parigi, Francia, quando un gruppo di americani decise di creare una "istituzione nazionale e galleria d'arte" per portare l'arte e l'educazione artistica al popolo americano.

L'avvocato John Jay, che propose l'idea, portò avanti rapidamente il progetto al suo ritorno negli Stati Uniti dalla Francia.

Sotto la presidenza di Jay, l'Union League Club di New York radunò leader civici, uomini d'affari, artisti, collezionisti d'arte e filantropi alla causa.

Robert Frost | La mia Ospite di Novembre / My November Guest

Robert Lee Frost (1874-1963) è stato un poeta e drammaturgo Statunitense, considerato tra i maggiori intellettuali del Novecento.

Frost è considerato uno dei più influenti e popolari poeti della storia statunitense; vincitore di quattro Premi Pulitzer e premiato con numerosi altri riconoscimenti, le sue raffigurazioni realistiche della vita rurale e la sua padronanza del discorso colloquiale americano lo resero il poeta più di successo del suo tempo.

Quando lei, mio Dolore, è qui con me,

pensa che questi giorni melanconici

e piovosi d’autunno sono splendidi

come possono i giorni essere; ama

la nuda pianta che appassisce, e va

sull’umido sentiero in mezzo all’erba.

Lawton Silas Parker | Autumn Sunlight

John Joseph Enneking | Spring Hillside, 1899-1902

John Joseph Enneking was born in Ohio in 1841 and was orphaned at a young age. He began to paint at the age of five and developed a natural talent before travelling East to New York and Massachusetts.

He trained in Germany, Italy and France and he was the first American to return from Paris in 1874 after having painted with Claude Monet, Pissarro and Renoir in Monet’s gardens at Argentueil (where Enneking painted Monet’s wife and child).

Benjamin Osro Eggleston | Young Woman in a Theater Box, 1891

"Young Woman in a Theater Box" is an 1891 oil painting by Benjamin Osro Eggleston (1867-1937).

A landscape painter in the tonal style and figures, Benjamin Osro Eggleston was born in Belvidere, MN and studied art at the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts under Douglas Volk.

He also traveled to Paris where he completed additional studies.

Upon his return he established a studio in Brooklyn from which he worked and traveled.

From 1900-1920 he summered at the Old Lyme Art Colony and in the 1930's he spent his time in West Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

Howard Chandler Christy | The Christy Girl

Howard Chandler Christy (1873-1952) was an American artist and illustrator.

Famous for the "Christy Girl" - a colorful and illustrious successor to the "Gibson Girl" - Christy is also widely known for his iconic WWI military recruitment and Liberty loan posters, along with his 1940 masterpiece titled, Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States, which is installed along the east stairwell of the United States Capitol.

Ralph Albert Blakelock | A Waterfall, Moonlight, 1886

This painting was shown at the National Academy of Design exhibition in 1886 and is a fine example of Blakelock's mature painting style.

Although it features elements that are typical of the artist's style -generalized and silhouetted forms, glowing moonlight, and thick paint- it is particularly strong and subtle in comparison.

The foliage that frames the edge of the canvas echoes the irregular contours of the tree so much that the forms seem almost able to interlock.

The brushwork is varied with pigment loosely appled to create a richly colored surface, especially in the boundary between the light sky and the dark leaves. | Source: © Metropolitan Museum of Art

Lionel Walden | Breaking Waves

Lionel Walden (1861-1933) was an American painter active in Hawaii, Cornwall and France.

He was born in Norwich, Connecticut.

He first became interested in art in Minnesota, where the family moved when his father became rector of an Episcopal Church there.

Charles Courtney Curran

Charles Courtney Curran was an American painter, best known for his canvases depicting women in various settings.

Curran was born in Hartford, Kentucky, where his father taught school.

A few months later after the beginning of the Civil War, the family left there and returned to Ohio, eventually settling in Sandusky on the shores of Lake Erie where the elder Curran served as superintendent of schools.

Elenco degli Artisti Americani

L'arte Americana è l'arte visiva realizzata negli Stati Uniti o da artisti statunitensi.

Prima della colonizzazione, c'erano molte tradizioni fiorenti dell'arte dei nativi americani, e dove gli spagnoli colonizzarono l'architettura coloniale spagnola e gli stili di accompagnamento in altri media furono rapidamente messe in atto.

La prima arte coloniale sulla costa orientale si basava inizialmente su artisti europei, con John White (1540-1593) il primo esempio.

Tra la fine del XVIII e l'inizio del XIX secolo, gli artisti dipingevano principalmente ritratti e alcuni paesaggi in uno stile basato principalmente sulla pittura inglese.

William Merritt Chase (1849-1916)

Jeffrey T. Larson, 1962

Jeffrey T. Larson è un artista raffinato di formazione classica ed è fondatore e direttore della Great Lakes Academy of Fine Art.

Larson si è formato alla maniera degli antichi maestri presso il prestigioso Atelier Lack, uno studio/scuola le cui tradizioni e metodi di formazione risalgono all'impressionismo ed alle accademie francesi del XIX secolo.

Ha seguito la sua formazione formale di quattro anni con studi museali negli Stati Uniti ed all'estero.

George P. A. Healy | Euphemia White Van Rensselaer, 1842

Euphemia Van Rensselaer (1816-1888) was the daughter of Stephen Van Rensselaer and the sister of Alexander Van Rensselaer.

She was born in Rensselaerswyck, near Albany, New York, and inherited a portion of her father's vast estate in 1839.

This picture was painted in 1842, the year before her marriage to John Church Cruger, a prominent lawyer with whom she settled on Cruger's Island near Barrytown, New York.

George Peter Alexander Healy | Euphemia White Van Rensselaer, 1842 (detail) | Metropolitan Museum of Art

Anne Hoenig | Figurative painter

Anne Hoenig is a figurative painter from CA.

She shows mainly in Berlin.

Her method leans on renaissance oil technique, depicting intense, intimate moments.

The paintings of Anne Hoenig are defined by nuances and a specific semi-darkness.

Emily Dickinson: Ci sarà davvero un "mattino"?

Ci sarà davvero un "mattino"?

C'è una cosa come il "Giorno"?

Potrei vederlo dai monti

Se fossi alta come loro?

Jon Boe Paulsen | The Blue Hour

David FeBland, 1949

David FeBland è nato a Londra e si è trasferito negli Stati Uniti all'età di sei anni.

Ha iniziato a dipingere come autodidatta a metà degli anni '80.

Si è diplomato prima presso l’Università della Virginia, negli Stati Uniti e poi presso l’Università di Manchester, in Inghilterra.

Artista completamente autodidatta, FeBland aveva iniziato una carriera in Architettura del Paesaggio e Communication Design, e conduceva programmi radiofonici di jazz, finché, alla metà degli anni Ottanta, ha deciso di diventare un pittore a tempo pieno.

Jeffrey Ripple, 1962

Many of the flowers and herbs that appear in Ripple’s work come directly from his garden.

Other objects in his work come from his admiration for Spanish Baroque painting’s depiction of materials and items as "almost spiritual".

By lighting and arranging his subjects well he aims to give them that spiritual dimension.

John Sloan

John French Sloan (1871-1951) was born in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, the son of an amateur artist and occasional businessman.

In 1876 he moved with his family to Philadelphia and in 1884 enrolled in Central High School, where William Glackens (American, 1870-1938) and Albert Coombs Barnes were among his classmates.

In 1888 he began working for a bookseller and print dealer, and the following year he taught himself how to etch with the aid of Philip Gilbert Hamilton's The Etcher's Handbook.

Teresa Brutcher, 1955

Born in Phoenix, Arizona, Teresa Brutcher lives and works in Spain, a country she came to know as an exchange student while getting her BA degree at the University of California.

Mesmerized by the old masters that populated the Prado Museum in Madrid and by the country itself, she returned there upon completing her BA degree.

Brutcher showing her figurative-realist paintings in galleries and museums in Spain as well as in Portugal, Germany, and the US.

Carla Paine, 1982

American painter Carla Louise Paine was educated in the traditions and techniques of classical oil painting in Florence, Italy.

There, at the Florence Academy of Art, she completed three years of intense study, spending her last trimester in 2010 in Sweden at the Academy’s Scandinavian branch.

Prior to that she studied at the highly regarded School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Carla has received numerous awards and recognition for her work including being two times awarded 'Best Nude' in the annual Art Renewal Center Salon as well as being awarded 'Collections Magazine Award' and the 'Duel Category Award'.

Dan McCaw, 1942 | L'impressionista romantico

Il pittore Americano Dan McCaw è cresciuto nel Montana e durante la sua carriera artistica accademica ha frequentato il Montana Institute of Technology, a Butte Montana; l'Università dell'Accademia d'Arte, a San Francisco; l'Art Center College of Design, a Pasadena, California; e la Bongart School of Art, a Santa Monica, in California.

Una solida base di design, colore e valore contraddistingue i dipinti espressivi di McCaw e fornisce un punto di partenza per un'entusiasmante esplorazione di nuovi modi di guardare gli oggetti familiari.

Emily Dickinson | L'estate è finita / The Summer is dying

The morns are meeker than they were,

The nuts are getting brown,

The berry's cheek is plumper,

The rose is out of town.

Igor Medvedev