Benjamin Paterssen Paintings in Geocoded Art

View of the Tauride Palace from the Garden

Painting by Benjamin Paterssen (1750-1815).  This artist a series of paintings of the architectural highlights of Petersburg.  Their lack of emotional content says something about their era and purpose: the construction of a great city, on a rational plan, was the ideal to be celebrated. A common feature (not present in this work) is the edge of a monumental building framing the image as a whole, providing context to judge distance and the scale of the buildings that are the principal subject.  One of the unstated subjects though, is the wide boulevards that make the city a commodious habitation for the elegant and refined pedestrians.

Benjamin Paterssen Paintings geocoded

Peter Vereshchagin Paintings in GeoCodedArt

Pskov

Painting by Peter Vereshchagin (1834-1886). Though not as prolific as his brother Vasily, this artist rendered vivid images from many locations, some with famous landmarks and other more pastoral settings because they must have moved him somehow.  A very common elements is a river bending to the horizon. His views are generally unremarkable in the atmosphere, though he did some hazy views of mountains in Crimea.

Vereshchagin Paintings geocoded

Konstantin Alekseyevich Korovin Paintings Geocoded

Arkhangelsk Port on Dvina

Painting by Konstantin Alekseyevich Korovin (1861–1939). This artist worked in a loose, colorful style,  doing more interiors and people going about their days then landscapes.  His works often seemed to be lit by a light we don't normally seem, and the objects in the scene appear to be giving off their own light.  The outdoor scenes he has done are never peaceful; there is a wind blowing through everything, or else the very spinning of the Earth animated every location and gives them a dynamic appearance.

Konstantin Alekseyevich Korovin Paintings geocoded

Apollinary Vasnetsov Paintings added to GeocodedArt

Novodevichy Convent Towers

Painting by Apollinary Vasnetsov (1856–1933)  Many of this artist's works have a scrubbed-air look about them as if a vigorous wind had just re-newed the environment and re-set the atmosphere for new endeavors.  He did town views with a variety of mediums and subjects, and despite painting a large number of scenes across Russia, he showed almost all of them in glorious sunlight and in warm weather.  There are pastoral views as well as the landmark structures in his works; unnamed town views as well as re-creations of views of past centuries, with considerable detailed paid to the dress and livelihood of people on the streets.

Apollinary Vasnetsov Paintings geocoded

Childe Hassam Paintings in Geocoded Art

Quincy, Massachusetts

Painting by Frederick Childe Hassam (1859-1935).  A highly prolific artist who painted recognizable but stylized views of scenes in many countries. His subject matter covered a wide range, from monumental to mundane; the seasons depicted were from blush of spring to harsh winter winds; pure nature scenes and the most urban location were near equally represented in his extensive output.
Surveying his work as a whole shows him to have a wide interest and curiosity, as well as a generous sense for where beauty is found, and recognizing that attitude enlivens the appreciation of each of his works.

Hassam paintings geocoded

Asher B. Durand Paintings Geocoded

Dover Plain, Dutchess County, New York

Painting by Asher B. Durand (1796-1886)
One of the artists that initiated the effort to record scenes along and around the Hudson River Valley as images of an unspoiled land; but it was also surely in their eyes a place that industrious people should inhabit.

Asher Brown Durand paintings geocoded

Jervis McEntee Paintings geocoded

Eagle Cliff, Franconia, New Hampshire

The majority of this artist's scene paintings did not identify a specific location, but six instances are included in GeocodedArt which, like this example, refer to a unique location in their title.  Even in cases in which the title refers to a location, they are often general in nature, not of a recognizable landmark as in this case.

Mobile access to the paintings and their location provides the enjoyment of the image on the lcoation that inspired the artist

Jervis McEntee Paintings geocoded