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Burial On The Plains
''Burial on the Plains'' ( 1890) is a painting by Richard Lorenz. The painting was exhibited in Munich in 1891 and it is part of the collection at the American Museum of Western Art – The Anschutz Collection. It is in the genre of Western American Art. Background In 1909 Richard Lorenz became the preeminent artist painting in the western genre. Lorenz was a horse specialist and he began his career working on large canvas panoramas. The painting is focussed on a grave and two cowboys. Joan Carpenter Troccoli who wrote the book ''Painters and the American West: The Anschutz Collection'' describes the painting by saying, it is easy to imaging Burial on the Plains being a segment of a panorama "open-ended and abruptly cut off". History In 1891 the painting was exhibited at the International exhibition in Munich. In 1915 the ''Boston Evening Transcript'' reported that it received great praise in Munich. It was scheduled to be exhibited at the World's Columbian Exposition The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burial On The Plains By Richard Lorenz 1890
Burial, also known as interment or inhumation, is a method of final disposition whereby a dead body is placed into the ground, sometimes with objects. This is usually accomplished by excavating a pit or trench, placing the deceased and objects in it, and covering it over. A funeral is a ceremony that accompanies the final disposition. Humans have been burying their dead since shortly after the origin of the species. Burial is often seen as indicating respect for the dead. It has been used to prevent the odor of decay, to give family members closure and prevent them from witnessing the decomposition of their loved ones, and in many cultures it has been seen as a necessary step for the deceased to enter the afterlife or to give back to the cycle of life. Methods of burial may be heavily ritualized and can include natural burial (sometimes called "green burial"); embalming or mummification; and the use of containers for the dead, such as shrouds, coffins, grave liners, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Lorenz (artist)
Richard Lorenz (9 February 1858 – 4 August 1915) was a German artist known for his paintings of scenes from the Western United States. He specialized in painting horses. Early life Richard Lorenz was born on 9 February 1858 in Voigtstedt, Germany. At 15 years old he was sent to the Royal Academy of Art in Weimar, Germany, to study sculpture and drawing with Heinrich Albert Brendel who specialized in drawing horses and other animals. In Weimar, Lorenz also studied art as a student of German artist Theodor Hagen. He spent eight years in the Weimar Art School and he won the Carl Alexander art prize twice. He moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1885. Career In 1885 Lorenz began working with a group of panoramist artists in Milwaukee. His contribution on the large canvases was to paint horses, and he became a specialist in painting them. In 1887 Lorenz left the group and traveled in the western United States sketching scenes from the west. When he returned to Milwaukee in 1891, he ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Museum Of Western Art – The Anschutz Collection
The American Museum of Western Art – The Anschutz Collection is a non-profit museum located in Denver, Colorado. Founded in 2010, it is the permanent home for The Anschutz Collection, a formerly private collection of paintings that surveys the art of the American West from the early 19th century to the present. Overview With a collection that spans nearly two centuries of art history, the museum's holdings include examples of early American expeditionary painting, Hudson River School and Rocky Mountain School landscapes, 19th-century American narrative painting, early American modernism, Expressionism, Cubism and Abstraction, American Regionalism, “New Deal Art”, and Abstract Expressionism. The Anschutz Collection of American Museum of Western Art is an outcome of the efforts made over 50 years by the Anschutz family, and the credit goes to businessman, Philip Anschutz, who is in oil, real estate and telecommunications. A lover of art, he chose this passion of his to ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western American Art
Western American Art includes artistic work which depicts the subjects related to the Western American region, and was treated as impoverished, unwanted and unworthy art before the twentieth century, during which period it achieved respectability as a rewarding region for studying. The term holds a characteristic of narration that is different from the Modern art which focuses on abstraction. For the narration, Western American art focuses on subject than style. Considering as a national art, the subjects are distinct from the European art, namely, there is no elements from other region like Europe. Cowboys and Indians are two well-known subjects and they consist the important part of artistic work of Western American art, demonstrating the daily life and activities of cowboys and American Indian in western American. The development of Western American art was affected by the social, political and also economic factors in American society. On the one hand, these factors helped it de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston Evening Transcript
The ''Boston Evening Transcript'' was a daily afternoon newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts, published from July 24, 1830, to April 30, 1941. Beginnings ''The Transcript'' was founded in 1830 by Henry Dutton and James Wentworth of the firm of Dutton and Wentworth, which was, at that time, the official state printer of Massachusetts. and Lynde Walter who was also the first editor of the ''Transcript''. Dutton and Wentworth agreed to this as long as Walter would pay the expenses of the initial editions of the newspaper. In 1830 ''The Boston Evening Bulletin'', which had been a penny paper, ceased publication. Lynde Walter decided to use the opening provided to start a new evening penny paper in Boston. Walter approached Dutton and Wentworth with the proposal that he would edit the paper and that they would do the printing and circulation. ''The Transcript'' first appeared on July 24, 1830, however after three days Walter suspended publication of the paper until he could build u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World's Columbian Exposition
The World's Columbian Exposition (also known as the Chicago World's Fair) was a world's fair held in Chicago (''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name ... in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492. The centerpiece of the Fair, held in Jackson Park (Chicago), Jackson Park, was a large water pool representing the voyage Columbus took to the New World. Chicago had won the right to host the fair over several other cities, including New York City, Washington, D.C., and St. Louis. The exposition was an influential social and cultural event and had a profound effect on American Architecture of the United States, architecture, the arts, American industrial optimism, and Chicago's image. The layout of the Chicago Columbian E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1890 In Art
Year 189 ( CLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Silanus and Silanus (or, less frequently, year 942 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 189 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Plague (possibly smallpox) kills as many as 2,000 people per day in Rome. Farmers are unable to harvest their crops, and food shortages bring riots in the city. China * Liu Bian succeeds Emperor Ling, as Chinese emperor of the Han Dynasty. * Dong Zhuo has Liu Bian deposed, and installs Emperor Xian as emperor. * Two thousand eunuchs in the palace are slaughtered in a violent purge in Luoyang, the capital of Han. By topic Arts and sciences * Galen publishes his ''"Treatise on the various temperaments"'' (aka ''O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
