The landscapist — our visionary surrogate — ventures into the world, returning with scenes of faraway and inaccessible locales. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Patrick James, a historical landscapist who has restored the Victorian gardens to its former glory, said: "It's a lost landscape … a whole designed landscape that's been forgotten." ❋ Unknown (2011)
By the time Hearn left America for Japan, never to return, he had established himself as the premier verbal landscapist of his era and a prose stylist to rival Poe, whom he idolized. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Award-winning Montclair landscapist Donna Grandé will be featured in an exhibit that opens with a reception this afternoon from 2: 00 - 4: 30 PM in the Plainfield Public Library's Anne Louise Davis Gallery. ❋ Dan (2007)
Of J.M.W. Turner, whom he thought his day's finest landscapist, Hazlitt remarked that Turner "painted pictures of nothing, and very like." ❋ Unknown (2009)
Claude Gellée was born in the Duchy of Lorraine but left around 1612 for Germany, then Rome, where he became a studio assistant to the landscapist Agostino Tassi. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Though her thesis was devoted to the eighteenth-century Frankfurt landscapist Johann Morgenstern, she began promoting contemporary German art. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The artists here — among them Jan Porcellis, Ludolf Backhuysen, Bonaventura Peeters, Simon de Vlieger and Jacob van Ruisdael (nephew of the celebrated landscapist, Salomon van Ruysdael) — are not names you come across every day. ❋ Barrymore Lawrence Scherer (2009)
Brancusi's transformation from a neophyte realist to a visionary abstract sculptor was sudden; Mondrian's evolution from a quiet landscapist to what he called "neoplasticism" was gradual, methodical and arduous. ❋ Unknown (2008)
In 1924, at the request of the Pro-Jerusalem Society and under the sponsorship of the Hebrew Union of Artists, the landscapist Reuven Rubin mounted a one-man exhibition at the Tower of David. ❋ Hels (2008)
Pissarro traditionally was known as a great landscapist, a translator of nature into art. ❋ Dana Gordon (2007)
On April 6 at Christie's New York, British landscapist J.M.W. Turner's 1775-1851 ethereal masterpiece of the scene hoisted up a new record for the artist: $35.8 million. ❋ Artfact.com Julie Carlson (2006)
According to the guidebook that the Prof had given her, Sir Christopher Wren had designed the house in 1693, and the master landscapist, Capability Brown, had created the gardens sixty years later. ❋ Smith, Wilbur (1995)
The architect-landscapist, M. Redon, who has been charged with the work, has drawn his inspiration from a series of unexecuted designs of Le Notre which have recently been brought to light from the innermost depths of the national archives. ❋ Blanche McManus (N/A)
Its overloaded details of Italian architecture were brightened up a bit by the surroundings planned and executed by the landscapist Le Notre and the life of the court in its suburban retreat took on a real and genuine brilliance which under the restraint of the gloomy walls of the Louvre and Paris streets could hardly have been. ❋ Blanche McManus (N/A)
The artist, to be sure, may give this, as when the landscapist paints some locality dear to his client or the portraitist paints the client himself; but he does not need to do this, and the aesthetic value of his work is independent of it; for the picture possesses its beauty even when we know nothing of its model. ❋ Dewitt H. Parker (N/A)
For in those years of suffering he had developed a delicate art as a landscapist, and he found a ready sale for his pictures, at first at low prices, it is true; but his fame spread rapidly, and he was able, in ❋ Burton Egbert Stevenson (1917)
Benozzo was a lover of nature, a skilful landscapist, an adept at representing animal life, and clever in the use of ornament. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)