Luminism
or
luminism, and luminists
- The American landscape painting style
of the 1850s-1870s, characterized by effects of light
in landscapes, poetic atmosphere, often sublime, through the use of aerial
perspective, and a hiding of visible brushstrokes.
It is related to, and sometimes refers to Impressionism.
Leading American luminists were Fitz Hugh Lane (1804-1865), John
F. Kensett (1816-1872), Martin J. Heade (1819-1904), Jasper Francis
Cropsey (1823-1900), and Frederick E. Church (1826-1900).
Examples:
Listed chronologically by artist's birth year
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Fitz Hugh Lane (American, 1804-1865), Stage Rocks and Western Shore of Gloucester Outer Harbor, 1857, oil on canvas, collection of John Wilmerding.
Fitz Hugh Lane, Ship
Starlight, c. 1860, oil
on canvas, 30 x 50 inches
(76.20 x 127.00 cm), Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown,
OH. See nocturne.
Fitz Hugh Lane (1804-1865), Lumber Schooners at Evening on Penobscot Bay, 1863, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
Fitz Hugh Lane (1804-1865), Brace's Rock, Eastern Point, Gloucester, c. 1864, oil on canvas, collection of John Wilmderding.
George Caleb Bingham (American, 1811-1879),
Fur Traders Descending the Missouri,
c. 1845, oil on canvas,
29 x 36 1/2 inches (73.7 x 92.7 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art,
NY.
John Frederick Kensett (1816-1872), An Ilex Tree on Lake Albano, Italy, 1846, oil on canvas, collection of John Wilmerding.
John Frederick Kensett (American, 1816-1872),
Sunrise among the Rocks of Paradise, Newport,
1859, oil on canvas,
18 x 30 inches (46.1 x 76.2 cm), Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco,
CA. See Hudson
River School.
John Frederick Kensett, Rondout Creek, 1862, oil on canvas, New Britain Museum of Art, CT.
John Frederick Kensett, Lake George, 1869, oil
on canvas, 44 1/8 x 66
3/8 inches (112.1 x 168.6 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.
Martin Johnson Heade (American, 1819-1904),
Approaching Thunder Storm, 1859, oil on canvas,
28 x 44 inches (71.1 x 111.8 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art,
NY.
Martin Johnson Heade, Twilight, Singing Beach, 1863, oil
on canvas, 20 x 36 inches,
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA.
Martin Johnson Heade, Ipswich Marshes, 1867, oil on canvas, New Britain Museum of Art, CT.
Martin Johnson Heade, The Great Swamp, 1868, oil
on canvas, 14 7/8 x 30
1/8 inches, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA.
Martin Johnson Heade, Sunlight and Shadow: The Newbury Marshes, c. 1871-1875, oil on canvas, collection of John Wilmerding.
Martin Johnson Heade, Salt Marsh at Southport, Connecticut, c. 1875-81, oil on canvas, 9 7/8 x 20 1/8 inches (25.1 x 51.4 cm), North Carolina Art Museum, Raleigh.
Jasper Francis Cropsey (American , 1823-1900),
View of Greenwood Lake, New Jersey, 1845,
oil on canvas,
30 3/4 x 40 3/4 inches (78.1 x 103.5 cm), Fine Arts Museums of
San Francisco, CA.
Jasper Francis Cropsey, Lake Wawayanda, Sussex County, New Jersey,
1870, oil on canvas,
New Britain Museum of Art, CT.
Sanford Robinson Gifford (American, 1823-1880), Lake Nemi, Italy, oil on canvas, 1856-57, Toledo Museum of Art, OH.
Sanford Robinson Gifford,
Kauterskill Clove, 1862, oil
on canvas, 48 x 39 7/8
inches (121.9 x 101.3 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. See
luminosity.
Frederick E. Church (American, 1826-1900), Newport Mountain, Mount Desert, 1851, oil on canvas, collection of John Wilmerding.
Frederick E. Church,
Falls of Niagara, 1857, oil
on canvas, Corcoran Gallery
of Art, Washington, DC. See Hudson River School.
Frederick E. Church, The Icebergs, 1861, oil
on canvas, 64 1/2 x 112
1/2 inches (163.8 x 285.8 cm), Dallas Museum of Art.
Frederic Edwin Church, In the Andes, 1878, oil
on canvas, 15 3/16 x 22
3/16 inches (38.57 x 56.35 cm), Butler Institute of American
Art, Youngstown, OH.
Albert Bierstadt (American, born in Germany,
1830-1902), Yosemite Falls, c. 1865-70, oil
on canvas, Worcester Art
Museum, MA.
Albert Bierstadt, Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California,
1868, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.
Albert Bierstadt, Sunrise in the Sierras, c. 1872, oil on canvas, 13 1/2 x 18 7/8 inches, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.
William Trost Richards (American, 1833-1905), Mount Desert, 1866, painting on gray paper, collection of John Wilmerding.
Norton Bush (American, 1834-1894), Lake Nicaragua,
1871, oil on canvas, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, NH.
Alfred T. Bricher (American, 1837-1908),
Beach Scene at Sunset, c. 1870, oil
on canvas, New Britain
Museum of Art, CT.
Thomas Moran (American, 1837-1926), Fiercely the red sun descending/Burned his way along the heavens, c. 1875, oil on canvas, 33 3/8 x 50 1/16 inches (84.8 x 127.1 cm), North Carolina Art Museum, Raleigh.
Also see Hudson River School, isms and -ism, and seascape.
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