Keith Linwood Stover - Curator
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"Bringing the Museum to You"
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The Cyber Art Show
The Cyber Art Show leaves America for Russia to continue our study of Impressionist landscape painters in the Public Domain with a ten-piece Exhibition of works by Ilya Ostroukhov Semenovich (1858-1929).
Ostroukhov came from a very wealthy merchant family, received an excellent education, knew three foreign languages and played the piano. In his youth, fond of natural history, he gathered such a large collection of samples of the flora and fauna of central Russia that "the young naturalist was known not only by Russian scientists, but also European."
Ostroukhov first picked up a brush at twenty-one. At first he worked alone, but then stayed at Abramtsevo, the art colony estate located north of Moscow, where he mingled with eminent painters like Ilya Repin and Ivan Shishkin. In the early 1880s, Ostroukhov spent two winters in St. Petersburg, a student of the famous academic Professor Pavel Chistyakov.
In 1885, Ostroukhov joined the Association of Travelling Art Exhibitions. Ostroukhov was primarily a landscape painter, known for his powerful renditions of nature."Silverko" (1890), arguably his most-famous painting, is considered by many one of the greatest Russian landscape paintings of the 19th century.
Ostroukhov was a fervent art collector, and after the October Revolution his personal collection was merged with the Tretyakov Gallery. He later became one of the members of its administrative commission. Ostroukhov spent the remainder of his life working as an art theoritician, and wrote several notable extensive texts on art.
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"Early Spring"
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Ten-piece Exhibition by
Ilya Ostroukhov Semenovich (1858-1929)
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Gallery #13
May 15, 2014
Gallery #12
May 14, 2014
Ten-piece Exhibition by
Edmund Tarbell (1862-1938)
Gallery #11
May 13, 2014
Ten-piece Exhibition by
Frank W. Benson (1862-1951)
The Cyber Art Show continues our study of Realism and Impressionist landscape painters in the Public Domain with a ten-piece Exhibition of works by American painter Edmund Tarbell (1862-1938). He was born in the Asa Tarbell House in West Groton, Massachusetts. His father, Edmund Whitney Tarbell, died in 1863 after contracting typhoid fever while serving in the Civil War. As a youth, Tarbell took evening art lessons from George H. Bartlett at the Massachusetts Normal Art School. Between 1877 and 1880, he apprenticed at the Forbes Lithographic Company in Boston. In 1879, he entered the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, studying under Otto Grundmann. He matriculated in the same class with Robert Reid and Frank Weston Benson, two other future members of "The Ten" American Painters.
In 1883 Edmund entered the Académie Julian in Paris to study under Gustave Boulanger and Jules-Joseph Lefebvre. There he received rigorous academic training, copying Old Master paintings at the Louvre Museum. The French Impressionist movement was then sweeping the city's galleries, and this informed Tarbell’s work. In 1884, Tarbell increased the scope of his formal training, studying in Italy, Belgium, Germany and
Brittany.
Tarbell returned to Boston in 1886, where he began his career as an illustrator, private art instructor and portrait painter. In 1913, with financial backing from Lilla Cabot Perry, he helped found The Guild of Boston Artists, a society which fostered art and artists in the city. The Guild opened in 1914 and Tarbell was its first president, serving through 1924.
In 1918, Tarbell was hired as principal of the art school at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, a position he held until 1926. He was also appointed Chairman of the Advisory Council for the Museum of Fine Arts.
Tarbell's work hangs in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Corcoran Gallery, DeYoung Museum, National Academy of Design, New Britain Museum of American Art, Worcester Art Museum, and numerous other collections.
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"A Girl Sewing in an Orchard"
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"Portrait of My Daughters" (1907)
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The Cyber Art Show returns to our study of Impressionist landscape painters in thePublic Domain with a ten-piece Exhibition of works by Frank Weston Benson (1862-1951), an American painter from Salem, Massachusetts.
Benson began his formal art studies in 1880, at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, in Boston under Otto Grundmann. He then traveled to Europe In 1883 to study at the Académie Julienin Paris. After returning to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston Benson would go on to enjoy a distinguished career as an instructor and department head there.
Known for his Realistic portraits, Impressionist paintings, watercolors and etchings, Frank began his career painting portraits of distinguished families and murals for the Library of Congress. Some of his best-known paintings depict his daughters outdoors at Benson's summer home, Wooster Farm, on the island of North Haven, Maine.
Benson created a wide range of works of art, including portraits, landscapes, waterscapes,etchings of wildfowl, still lifes and murals. He worked in oil paint, watercolor, etching and dry point, producing over 600 watercolor paintings alone.
Frank W. Benson was a founding member of the Ten American Painters, American Academy of Arts and Letters and The Guild of Boston Artists.
Gallery #10B
May 12, 2014
Exhibition Two - Ten Pieces by
Maryanne Jacobsen
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"Fish Beach Road"
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By permission of the artist, The Cyber Art Show is pleased to feature the second of two ten-piece Exhibitions by Florida
Impressionist landscape painter Maryanne
Jacobsen, our first contemporary artist on the new website!
In 2006, after an early retirement from a performing arts career allowed her the opportunity to indulge in a childhood dream to become a visual artist, Maryanne began painting. Ms. Jacobsen is the former regional director of The Rock School West, an official school of The Pennsylvania Ballet, as well as the founding director of West Chester Dance Theatre. With color the motivating factor in her desire to paint, she picked up a palette knife and the magic of creation began. The love affair is still in high gear seven years later, and Maryanne feels truly blessed to have found one more passion in a life that has been filled with artistic accomplishments.
Although Maryanne Jacobsen has described her work as “a gallery of forgotten dreams,” her body of original paintings is hardly forgettable. Indeed, her vibrantly-colored oils have been described by collectors and fellow artists as lyrical, inspired and passionate, since feeling is the motivating theme behind each piece of art she creates.
Over the past few years Maryanne has been juried into many local and national shows including the American Impressionist Society, American Women Artists, Women Painters of the Southeast and the National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society. She has won many awards, including First Place and Best of Show and paints en plein air.
Maryanne is represented by galleries
throughout the United States including Galerie du Soleil in Naples, Fl., Gallery 444 in Union Square, San Francisco, Lorica Artworks in Andover, Massachusetts, and Collector’s Gallery in Venice Fl.
Here is her official website:
www.maryannejacobsen.com