• William Merritt Chase, Shinnecock Landscape, ca. 1894

    William Merritt Chase (American, 1849–1916), Shinnecock Landscape, ca. 1894. Oil on canvas, 16 x 24 inches. Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, N.Y., Museum Purchase, 1978.5

  • John Henry Twachtman (American, 1853–1902), Horseshoe Falls, Niagara, ca. 1894. Oil on canvas, 30 1/4 x 25 3/8 inches. Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, N.Y., Littlejohn Collection, 1959.5.15

  • William Stanley Haseltine, Anacapri

    William Stanley Haseltine, (American, 1835–1900), Anacapri, 1892. Oil on canvas, 22 3/4 x 36 3/8 inches. Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, N.Y., Littlejohn Collection, 1961.3.199

  • William Merritt Chase, Park in Brooklyn

    William Merritt Chase (American, 1849–1916), Park in Brooklyn, ca. 1887. Oil on panel, 16 1/8 x 24 1/8 inches. Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, N.Y., Littlejohn Collection, 1961.5.11

American Views: Artists at Home and Abroad

NOW ON VIEW


American art abounds in landscape images that shape our views of nature and the world around us. Artists coming of age in the 1860s were not convinced that the sweeping vistas of the Hudson River School were their only painting options. Samuel Colman and George Henry Smillie chose close-up studies of nature, taking a cue from the naturalistic observations in paint of the French Barbizon School, and both artists were drawn to eastern Long Island early in their careers.