Sketches at Home and Abroad. Hints on the Acquirement of Freedom of Execution and Breadth of Effect in Landscape Painting

"Here is portrayed three Moods of the Sky and the effects on the Fish and Animals. Sharks and Turtles come to the Surface when it is Raining. Wallabies and Kangaroos are out feedin...

Wooded Mountain Landscape with Waterfall and Travellers is a magnificent fantasy landscape in the Flemish tradition, painted in the first half of the 17th century by the Antwerp pa...

Landscape was a leading genre in 17th-century Dutch painting. During that century Dutch artists succeeded in formulating a type of representation that allowed them to depict the wo...

“Have just returned from a tour in search of the picturesque, ” wrote Thomas Cole in his diary on 8 July 1837, “[...] To Mr Durand the scenery was entirely new and I am happy in ha...

Camille Corot, whose art was halfway between Romanticism and Realism, preferred to paint a nature that inspired poetry and bucolic fantasy than to render it realistically as Courbe...

Exhibition text for “Women and art,” 8 March to 6 June 2004 at the Museum of Bohusläns. From a handwritten catalog of Uddevalla - Musei - Kulturhistorian - collections, Konsthistor...

There are many things I cherish and bring with me every time we move. There is one small thing that really reminds me of my childhood home that I have brought with me since the fir...

“I also hold that painting is a quite concrete art, and can consist of nothing but the representation of real, tangible things, ” wrote Gustave Courbet in an open letter to his stu...