Popular Artists The changing fall foliage was not missed in late 19th century artwork.  The autumn season was inspiring to these 19th Century painters and photographers:      Ansel Adams      Claude Monet      Vincent van Gogh                                               Page Favorites:			Search for:

Ansel Adams

Autumn Tree Against Cathe... Ansel Adams 26x30 Pre-...

Aspens, Northern New Mexi... Ansel Adams 26x38 Pre-...

Aspens, Northern New Mexico, 1958 ... Ansel Adams 32x28 Pre-made F...

Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American photographer, best known for his black-and-white photographs of the American West.

Adams was born in San Francisco, California. When he was four years old, he was tossed face-first into a garden wall in an aftershock from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, breaking his nose. His broken nose was never corrected and appeared crooked for his entire life.  Adams became interested in photography after seeing Paul Strand's negatives. Adams long alternated between a career as a concert pianist and one as a photographer.

Ansel Adams first came to Yosemite National Park in 1916. While in Yosemite, he had frequent contact with the Best family, owners of Best's Studio. In 1928, Ansel Adams married Virginia Best in Best's Studio in Yosemite Valley. Virginia inherited the studio from her father on his death in 1935, and the Adams continued to operate the studio until 1971.

At age 17, Adams joined the Sierra Club, a group dedicated to preserving the natural world's wonders and resources. Adams was an avid mountaineer in his youth and participated in the club's annual "high trips", and was later responsible for several first ascents in the Sierra Nevada.

Adams' photograph The Tetons and the Snake River has the distinction of being one of the 116 images recorded on the Voyager Golden Record aboard the Voyager spacecraft. These images were selected to convey to a possible alien civilization information about humans, plants and animals, and geological features of the Earth.

In 1980 Jimmy Carter awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor. Ansel Adams died on April 22, 1984 from heart failure aggravated by cancer.

Claude Monet

Autumn in Argenteuil Claude Monet 32x24 Giclee Print	Poppies Claude Monet 56x38 Giclee Print	Antibes Seen from La Salis Claude Monet 28x20 Fine Art Print
	Three Trees, Autumn Claude Monet 18x24 Fine ...	Artist's Garden in Argenteuil Claude Monet 32x24 Fine Art Print
Ice Floes Near Vetheuil (Le Debacle P... Claude Monet 32x24 Giclee Print	Bassin d'argenteuil, c.1874 Claude Monet 34x27 Fine Art Print	Haystacks, Pink and Blue Impressions,... Claude Monet 32x24 Giclee Print

Claude Oscar Monet (November 14, 1840 – December 5, 1926 was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature.

On the beaches of Normandy in about 1856/1857 he met fellow artist Eugène Boudin who became his mentor and taught him to use oil paints. Later, Monet was in Paris for several years and met several painters who would become friends and fellow impressionists. One of those friends was Édouard Manet.  In 1868, due to financial reasons, Monet attempted suicide by throwing himself into the Seine.

Autumn Blooms I Claude Monet 13x13 Fine Art Print	Autumn Blooms II Claude Monet 13x13 Fine Art Print	Autumn Blooms III Claude Monet 13x13 Fine Art Print
Autumn Blooms IV Claude Monet 13x13 Fine Art Print	Bouquet Floral Claude Monet 13x13 Fine Art Print

In 1872 (or 1873), Monet painted "Impression, Sunrise" depicting a Le Havre landscape. From the painting's title, art critic Louis Leroy coined the term "Impressionism", which he intended to be derogatory, however the Impressionists appropriated the term for themselves.

Monet (resolving never to be mired in poverty again) began in earnest to create some of his best paintings of the 19th century. During the early 1880's Monet painted several groups of landscapes and seascapes in what he considered to be campaigns to document the French countryside. His extensive campaigns evolved into his series' paintings.

Beginning in the 1880s and 1890s, through the end of his life in 1926, Monet worked on "series" paintings, in which a subject was depicted in varying light and weather conditions. His first series exhibited as such was of Haystacks, painted from different points of view and at different times of the day. Fifteen of the paintings were exhibited at the Durand-Ruel in 1891.

Monet died of lung cancer on December 5, 1926 at the age of 86 and is buried in the Giverny church cemetery.  Monet had insisted that the occasion be simple; thus about fifty people attended the ceremony.

Vincent Van Gogh

Allee des Alyscamps Vincent Van Gogh 16x20 Fine ...	Cornfields Near Arles Vincent Van Gogh 23x18 Fine Art Print	Cafe de Nuit Vincent Van Gogh 13x31 Pre-...
Autumn Garden Vincent Van Gogh 39x28 Fine Art Print	Autumn Path in Gogh 54x27 Stretched ...	Harvest at Arles, c.1888 Vincent Van Gogh 28x20 Fine Art Print
Harvest in Provence of Wheat Field wi... Vincent Van Gogh 24x18 Giclee Print	Harvest Vincent Van Gogh 32x28 Pre-made F...	Jardin des Peupliers Vincent Van Gogh 20x28 Fine ...

Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist artist. His paintings and drawings include some of the world's best known, most popular and most expensive pieces.

Haystacks in Provence, c.1888 Vincent Van Gogh 24x18 Giclee Print	Midday Rest (after Millet), c.1890 Vincent Van Gogh 16x12 Giclee Print	Mulberry Tree, c.1889 Vincent Van Gogh 24x18 Giclee Print
Les Alyscamps Vincent Van Gogh 18x24 Gicl...	The Elysian Fields, c.1888 Vincent Van Gogh 18x24 Gicl...	Road with Cypresses, c.1890 Vincent Van Gogh 18x24 Gicl...
Olive Grove Vincent Van Gogh 31x25 Pre-made F...	The Harvester Vincent Van Gogh 40x30 Giclee Print	Samann Bei Untergehen Vincent Van Gogh 45x36 Stretched ...

Van Gogh spent his early adult life working for a firm of art dealers. After a brief spell as a teacher, he became a missionary worker in a very poor mining region. He did not embark upon a career as an artist until 1880. Initially, van Gogh worked only with sombre colours, until he encountered Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism in Paris. He incorporated their brighter colors and style of painting into a uniquely recognizable style, which was fully developed during the time he spent at Arles, France. He produced more than 2,000 works, including around 900 paintings and 1,100 drawings and sketches, during the last ten years of his life. Most of his best-known works were produced in the final two years of his life, during which time he cut off part of his left ear following a breakdown in his friendship with Paul Gauguin. After this he suffered recurrent bouts of mental illness, which led to his suicide.

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