By Hiba Mubashir
The might mountains With lush green colour The way they gleam, It seems like a dream So heighted and tall That one might have a great fall Beneath the blue sky They seem like boulders That’re so highA dreamy place With mountains laced Just embrace! The beauty of that frame The peace which’s claimed With the sightings Of mountains
Painting: Morning, 1922 by Maxfield Parrish
Artist: Newell Convers Wyeth (American, 1882-1945)
Artist: Thomas Hart Benton (American, 1889-1975)
Date: 1931-1932
Thomas Hart Benton (April 15, 1889 – January 19, 1975) was an American painter, muralist, and printmaker. Along with Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry, he was at the forefront of the Regionalist art movement. The fluid, sculpted figures in his paintings showed everyday people in scenes of life in the United States.
His work is strongly associated with the Midwestern United States, the region in which he was born and which he called home for most of his life. He also studied in Paris, lived in New York City for more than 20 years and painted scores of works there, summered for 50 years on Martha's Vineyard off the New England coast, and also painted scenes of the American South and West.
Miles Hyman was born in Bennington, Vermont, in 1962, Hyman studied painting and engraving in his native America before crossing the Atlantic for the first time and taking up a place at the Ecole des Beaux Arts de Paris, in 1985. After spending ten years in France, he returned to America, but this time to the West Coast, before finally doing the journey in reverse a few years later and setting up home in Tardi and de Loustal country.
A meticulous illustrator with a hyper-realist, quasi-photographic style, Miles Hyman began his career working for the magazine Lire, later collaborating with various other high-profile magazines, most notably Le Monde, Télérama and The New York Times. He also produced a great many book covers for Actes Sud, Denoël and Gallimard.
“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.” ~ Mary Wortley Montagu
As a prolific itinerant portraitist in the Connecticut River valley, Stock kept a journal of his daily activities, recording that he painted more than nine hundred works between 1832 and 1846. From the age of eleven, Stock was paralyzed from the waist down. He was able to travel in later years with the aid of a specially designed wheelchair. The children seen here are thought to be those of the artist’s younger brother, Isaac C. Stock, and sister-in-law, Sarah Hunt Stock, of Springfield, Massachusetts. Painting his subjects at full length, the artist employed colorful props in a detailed interior containing flat, abstract elements that are appealing to the modern eye.
