American painters | Guillermo Coll

01Feb 2023 by Enriquecoll_1601 No Comments

Maynard Dixon

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Maynard Dixon (1875-1946) was one of those North-American painters who travelled the Deserts of both Arizona and Mexico in search of light and colour. At the same time, he was attracted by former American peoples’ art forms which he contributed to spread and promote. While the Great Depression came along, he left aside his beautiful landscapes with those scorched sunburnt rocks to depict the dramatic lives of those roaming all over the country, escaping poverty, uprooted. Apart from his country, the United States of America, this artist is little known. Anyway, we know that he used to paint dressed as a cowboy.

Frederic Remington

Illustration, Painting

Most of us are unaware that we have found Frederic Remington’s works (1861-1909) a number of times in our lives. These works have been replicated ‘ad nauseam’ in all sorts of things such as decorations, movie posters or book covers. Some of his paintings depicting the conquest of the Far West, the Native Americans and the Native Indian Wars have become cultural icons nowadays. The Seventh Art, the cinema in particular, owes him so much. Some of the well-known sceneries of any classic western seem to be inspired by his paintings. Remington had a life of adventure: he experienced first-hand everything he painted. He worked as journalist, photographer, newspaper correspondent and writer. The tradition of such paintings is still fully in force in the United States of America. We need…

One Dollar Bill

Illustration

Unfortunately, there are so few works of American painters of the 19th century exhibited in European museums. In Madrid, there are quite few samples in the Museum Thyssen-Bornemisza. With the exception of Sargent, people barely knows the paintings by Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer or George Inness. But there is also a prejudice that these painters are merely following the styles arisen in the old continent. Obviously, many of them travelled throughout Europe and completed their training but once home they were capable to give their own works a dynamic sense typical of an emerging country. At the end of the 19th century, there were artists who were masters of the trompe l'oeil technique such as John Frederick Peto or William Michael Harnett and who arose in the United States. The…

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