Since first landfall, the American landscape has been a great inspiration to those who would be so inclined to recognize its beauty. Novelists, poets, painters, and many others have found inspiration in "the land of the free and the home of the brave," and succombed to the "purple mountains majesties" and the "oceans, white with foam."
Dune Shadows, c. 1900
Written on verson of the painting: Painted by Parke C. Dougherty
Ernest Lee Parker, Curator Penna Fine Art
(Accoring to Cheryl Leibold (of PAFA), Ernest Lee Parker served as curator from 1927 to 1937)
Village in the Valley, 1865
The work of the 1860s and 1870s often tended toward the panoramic and picturesque, topped by cloud-laden and threatening skies, and included views of his native country (Autumn Oaks, 1878, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Catskill Mountains, 1870, Art Institute of Chicago), as well as scenes inspired by numerous travels overseas, especially to Italy and France (The Monk, 1873, Addison Gallery of American Art; Etretat, 1875, Wadsworth Atheneum).
Fall, Point Pleasant
The Pinnacle in Pennsylvania, 1873
Winter Stream
This is a good example of the artist's painting style after his return from France. It illustrates a transition for the artist in which his older, tonal style blends with his French Impressionist influences that would become so desirable.
Feeder to Canal
This painting was exhibited in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts exhibition in 1909.
