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Eagle Head, Manchester, Massachusetts (High Tide) by Winslow Homer, 1870, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, NY)

#ArtHistory #Luminism
After the Civil War, Homer often explored women’s new societal roles in his art. This modern leisure subject confounded critics when it was first exhibited in New York, in 1870, perhaps for its disquieting sense of voyeurism and mystery. Emerging after a swim, a woman wrings out her heavy bathing clothes and hair as a small dog appears startled by dripping water. Some viewers focused on issues of decorum and class, criticizing the women’s state of undress—even though they wear typical bathing costumes of the era—and one described them as "exceedingly red-legged and ungainly." The work falls within the period of American Luminism and the rise of Realism the late 19th century. While Realism influenced by the Hudson River School's romanticized landscapes, Homer moved towards more direct and unsentimental portrayal of nature. This work anticipates the later development of American Impressionism and foreshadows the focus on subjective experience and atmospheric effects that would characterize the movement. It represents a shift away from detailed topographical accuracy towards capturing the emotional impact of the natural world.
February 4, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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Luminism
January 28, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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Swatara Creek (2016) - Timothy Barr #luminism
January 27, 2026 at 9:06 PM
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#LighthouseArt of the Day

Albert Bierstadt (German-American, 1830-1902), Newport #Lighthouse, 1860s, oil on paper mounted on masonite.

Courtesy Santa Barbara Museum of Art, sbma.org

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#art #artsky #AmericanArt #OilPainting #seascape #MarineArt #MaritimeArt #HudsonRiverSchool #luminism
Waves crash against a rocky shore. A lighthouse stands on the shore in the upper left of the image; a small house is to its left. The scene appears to be illuminated by the light of a full moon, just out of frame.
January 27, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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Bryan Carbajal shared a look at a recent environment project focused on luminism-inspired lighting, a large outdoor scene, and a custom skybox, built in Unreal Engine 5.

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#UnrealEngine5 #UE5 #indiedev #gamedev
January 24, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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Sudden Showers, Newbury Marshes by Martin Johnson Heade, 1875, Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Connecticut, United States)

#ArtHistory #Luminism #HudsonRiverSchool
Heade made over 100 paintings of salt marshes, whose flat expanses provided a canvas for the play of weather and tides. In "Sudden Shower, Newbury Marshes," Heade's mastery of perspective allows the small canvas to convey a sense of the broad, flat landscape of the Massachusetts coast. In contrast to the regularly spaced haystacks, the looming clouds and veils of rain in this painting suggest impending change. Americans transformed agriculture by introducing the first effective harvesting machinery in the 1840s, yet Heade depicts the gathering of salt hay for animal feed, a traditional process resistant to mechanization and necessitated by the encroachment of New England's cities upon its pastures. Built on stilts, the haystack in the foreground suggests the fragility of the region's rural economy.
January 17, 2026 at 1:07 AM
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Luminism rocks, especially Bierstadt! 😍
January 7, 2026 at 6:14 PM
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California Spring (1875) - Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902) #luminism #landscape
December 29, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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#LighthouseArt of the Day

Fitz Henry Lane (American, 1804-1865), View of Camden Mountains from #Penobscot Bay, n.d., oil on board.

Courtesy Crystal Bridges
Museum of #AmericanArt, crystalbridges.org

#art #artsky #lighthouse #Maine #luminism #landscape #seascape #NewEngland #Maine #OilPainting
A lighthouse stands on a forested hill at sunset, with the sun just below the horizon to the left. A sailboat is passing by to the right, and there are rolling hills in the distance. The scene is suffused with a soft golden light.
December 28, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie (1866) - Albert Bierstadt #landscape #luminism #hudson_river_school
December 27, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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Fishermen (1891) - Leon Wyczółkowski (1852-1936) #impressionism #luminism
December 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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York Harbor, Coast of Maine https://www.artic.edu/artworks/152747/
This painting represents Martin Johnson Heade’s mature style from the 1870s and contains many of the compositional elements that have led modern scholars to celebrate the artist as a proponent of Luminism. A 20th-century term, Luminism has consistently been linked to the 19th-century philosophical doctrine of transcendentalism. Stylistically, it is characterized by a horizontal format; tight, invisible brushwork; and pervasive light emanating from an unseen source. Together these qualities embody the intellectual spirit of the American writer and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), who found transcendental unity in the contemplation of nature’s stillness. Restricted gift of Mrs. Herbert A. Vance; Americana, Lacy Armour and Roger McCormick endowments; through prior gifts of Dr. and Mrs. R. Gordon Brown, Emily Crane Chadbourne, George F. Harding Collection, Brooks McCormick, and James S. Pennington
December 23, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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William Stanley Haseltine's The Sea from Capri. I love American Luminism.
December 22, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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#YesEvents #Luminism #LightTrails #LightArt
December 19, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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The Rio Grande at Sunset – Art, History, and the Lifeline of South Texas

Rio Grande Sunset Giclée Fine Art Print – South Texas Sabal Palm Landscape, Contemporary Luminism Wall Art The Rio Grande—known in Mexico as the Río Bravo del Norte or simply Río Bravo—has shaped the history, culture, and…
The Rio Grande at Sunset – Art, History, and the Lifeline of South Texas
Rio Grande Sunset Giclée Fine Art Print – South Texas Sabal Palm Landscape, Contemporary Luminism Wall Art The Rio Grande—known in Mexico as the Río Bravo del Norte or simply Río Bravo—has shaped the history, culture, and survival of the people living along its winding banks for centuries. Stretching over 1,200 miles from the Rockies to the Gulf of Mexico, this river has served as a natural boundary, a cultural meeting point, and a source of life for communities in Texas and northern Mexico alike.
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December 6, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives (1870) - Frederic Edwin Church #luminism #landscape
December 2, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Aurora Borealis (1865) – Frederic Church’s Late Arctic Vision #luminism #landscape
December 1, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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York Harbor, Coast of Maine by Martin Johnson Heade, 1877, The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL)

#ArtHistory #ModernArt #Luminism
This painting represents Heade’s mature style from the 1870s and contains many of the compositional elements that have led modern scholars to celebrate the artist as a proponent of Luminism. A 20th-century term, Luminism has consistently been linked to the 19th-century philosophical doctrine of transcendentalism. Stylistically, it is characterized by a horizontal format; tight, invisible brushwork; and pervasive light emanating from an unseen source. Together these qualities embody the intellectual spirit of the American writer and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, who found transcendental unity in the contemplation of nature’s stillness.
November 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Rainy Season in the Tropics (1866) - Frederic Edwin Church #landscape #luminism #hudson_river_school
November 24, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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Sunrise on the Matterhorn - Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902) #landscape #hudson_river_school #luminism
November 21, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Indians Spear Fishing by Albert Bierstadt, 1862, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Houston, TX)

#ArtHistory #HudsonRiverSchool #Luminism
Landscape as a form of theater and spectacle culminated in 19th-century American art with the work of Thomas Moran and Albert Bierstadt. Both artists emigrated from Europe at young ages and went on to achieve success as interpreters of the American West. The new, epic landscape they depicted functioned as a national symbol of grandeur and promise, yet at the same time it served as rumination on the subject of nature and the divinity to be found within it. Bierstadt first left the East Coast to travel west in 1859, accompanying a government-sponsored trip from Missouri to the Rocky Mountains. Compiled from close observation, sketches, and stereoscopic views taken on the expedition, "Indians Spear Fishing" portrays the West as a pristine, sublime wilderness that seemingly could be found only in the Bible's Book of Genesis. Within a compressed space, Bierstadt draws together barren rock formations, towering waterfalls, spindly trees, crystalline water reflecting rocky outcrops, and a peak that pierces the wispy and moisture-laden clouds, turning to mist below. In the brightly lit foreground near the shore, a boat filled with three Native Americans provides scale and identifies the location as unmistakably that of the West; the boat laden with furs spells the riches of the land.
November 15, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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I've been enjoying form without content by luminism, specifically easy villain and error
November 12, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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View near New London, Connecticut by Francis Augustus Silva, 1877, Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY)

#ArtHistory #HudsonRiverSchool #Luminism

For more on Silva and his work, see nasjournal.org/NASJ/article...
October 29, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Rocky Mountain Landscape (1870) - Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902) #luminism #hudson_river_school #landscape
October 29, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Boerderij te Blaricum - Dromerige zomerse sfeer van een verlaten binnenplaats | Farmhouse in Blaricum - Dreamy summer atmosphere of an abandoned courtyard.
Co Breman in Gouda #artmuseum.
#art #impressionism #fineart #larenseschool #pointillism #luminism #oil #painting #oilpainting #landscape
October 20, 2025 at 9:11 AM