Bob Glover took a serious interest in landscape painting while at the University
of Georgia, especially the works of George
Inness Although there were no opportunities to view and closely
study Inness actual works and those of other artists of the Hudson
River School, Glover's fine arts focus turned to the painters,
illustrators, and sketch artists of the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries
who moved
across the landscape of North America, recording the pioneering, westward
expansion, and changing
lives of Native Americans. (Beginning in the mid-1960s, opportunities
came for Glover to see and study the actual works of art that he had
only learned about and seen pictured in books at the University of
Georgia.)
For 40 years Glover's career outside of fine arts provided many opportunities
to travel throughout North America and Europe. During this time he carried
a sketchbook, using it whenever there was time to visit museums, exhibits and
galleries. He made sketches and notes from seeing closely the actual techniques
of artists he admired. Except for those occasions to view the famous works
of artists, for example the paintings of Johannes Vermeer ( (Dutch, 1632–1675),
Glover's studies with sketchbook in hand covered whatever he could find from
the time of the Hudson
River School through the period called American Scene
Painting, and including the Golden
Age of Illustration right up to the present examples
of sketches and notes.
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In 2004 I made good use of Hudson River School Art
Collection Locations and Descriptions, a file of the
official New York State Tourism website, as I planned a
trip to the Rhinebeck, New York, areasort
of an artists' date with my wife.
At the time I created a link for your convenience, as someone
interested in the Hudson River School of
landscape painting; however, a later check did not show
the file I refer to. Not wanting to disappoint, I make
these suggestions: (1) Allow me to virtually Google for "Hudson
River School Art Collection Locations and Descriptions" at
the top of this pagesearch
results.); or (2) search for "Hudson River
School" yourself at http://www.iloveny.com.
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The term artist's date comes from Julia
Cameron the author of The Artist's Way. Her use of
the term means that its a weekly block of two hours spent
observing, sensing, and experiencing, which is an inherent
behavior of the creative person as I see it. My wife began
adhering to Cameron's advice around the time that the two
were together at a
center for holistic studies. When Lynne and I traveled
to the center and extended our trip to included time to
visit places for me to study the works of Hudson
River School artists, we called the whole experience
an artists' date
definition of
the artists' way defined Lynne began using the term artist's date after
meeting Julia Cameron near Rhinebeck, NY at a placed called Omega
Thomas Cole was the founder of the
Hudson River School. Frederic
Church was his most famous student. Teacher and student together are the
duo that established the school's place in art history but Cole' friend Asher
B. Durand is credited with taking it to the level of an American art movement.
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Beyond the time of American
Scene Painting,
a movement that phased out after the end of the Great Depression,
there are works of many fine artists who are producing
right up to the present. For example, I discovered Slow
PaintingA
Deliberate Renaissance in 2006 at the Oglethorpe
University Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia. See the PDF
file at Ann Long Fine Art.com. Also, having the opportunity
to regularly take my
sketchbook to study original works at the Booth
Western Art Museum, I admit to being caught up in Western
American Art.
I enjoy learning about the story-telling, scene and landscape
paintings of western-oriented artists and cowboy artists (see Cowboy
Artists of America) along with those who were a part of the Golden
Age of Illustration that began in 1880s. The way I see it, that "Golden
Age" is a period of a little over 120 years and extends throughout
the Twentieth Century up to the time that computer users became acceptable
illustrators. I point to Gustav
Tenggren and other Disney
illustrators and the background work they produced during the
1930s and early 40ssee
Golden
Age of Movie Animation/Disney. Until his untimely death in the mid-1940s, N
C Wyeth was productive as a "Golden Age" illustrator who,
in my view, will a some point be counted in the ranks of great fine arts
painters, possibly
along with his teacher Howard
Pyle. I see the "Golden Age" as extending throughout the
Twentieth Century in America because many talented veterans returned from
the wars
and learned to be (veteran
artists) and illustrators from the 1950s on. Quite a few of the latter
mentioned illustrators successfully transitioned into the production of gallery-quality
works as the commercial demand for their skills declinedsearch
the Web for artists
illustrators board work "demand for".
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... In America, until about 1970, (plein-air
painting) was referred to as painting on site or
on location. Today's "on site" landscape painters
use the French term en plein air, meaning "in open
air."from The
Roots of American Plein-Air Painting by Ross Merrill,
p36, v1, issue 3, November 2004, PleinAir
Magazine. The Italian word alfresco means
essentially the same thingoutdoors.
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... After Cole's untimely death in 1848, his longtime
and well-respected friend, Asher B. Durand (1796-1886),
became the acknowledged leader of what is often referred
to as the second generation of Hudson School artists.from New
York / The Hudson River School / A Reflection of America's
Changing Values by Tammis Kane Groft, p39, v2, issue
4, April 2005, PleinAir
Magazine.
One of two
sketches of works by Durand is a Study
from Nature, Stratton Notch, Vermont. The other is simply titled Nature
Study. I've not yet found a online reproduction of Nature Study; however,
here are a couple of websites of interest that I ran across searching for it.
2 Blowhards.com / http://www.2blowhards.com/archives/000456.html
Traditional
Fine Arts Organization website / http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/6aa/6aa4d.htm
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1960
issue of Georgia Forestry Magazine with cover illustration
by Bob Glover, a drawing depicting the discovery of
the treasure of
Georgia's forests and tree farms.
