Tag: American painters

• Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him, but a day comes when he begins to care that he do not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun. –Ralph Waldo Emerson.

  Adrienne Morris

  March 26, 2016

  Art, Quotes, Uncategorized

  American painters, boys playing poker, card games, Love Thy Neighbor, Opinion, Quotes, ralph waldo emerson

• The Romantic Realist

  Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote in 1859: “No author without a trial can conceive  of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case…

  Adrienne Morris

  April 10, 2013

  Beautiful Images, Uncategorized

  American painters, Fine Art, medicine history, portrait, Thomas Eakins