Thomas Paquette - American

These works have a wonderful mystical feel. I think the medium is oil, but, if I remember correctly, this artist also uses pastels, and may have wanted to bring something of pastel technique into oil painting. Some oil painters squeeze their paint out onto absorbant paper to take out as much oil as possible, this gives their work a chalkier appearance. I believe Monet did this.

Albert Goodwin - British

The Sultan and his Camp by the Enchanted Lake 1888









I think this work is hanging in the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Edgar Payne - American

Payne is fairly famous in the US for his images of cowboys riding through canyons; images that were so often copied by later artists that they came to be seen as cliched. 

There's a great strength in the composition of this scene which lifts the work above the run of the mill.

Henri Rousseau

Tiger in a Tropical Storm. Surprised!

This is one of my favourite works of Rousseau. He achieves a good balance between warm and cool colours, and the energy of the storm is wonderfully expressed. The variety of green shades look vibrant but natural (in this reproduction at least). As in Eastern painting, this work has a near total absence of shading and atmospheric perspective (desaturation of colours with distance), techniques used to create the illusion of three dimensions. The result is a unified flat design, almost like a textile, in which colour and line are celebrated.

Avner Moriah - Israeli

The simplicity of this work - just olive trees, red earth and white walls - gives it strength .

Marjorie Moskowitz

Lavender Field

William Trost Richards

The South Shore, Newport, 1903, 30 x 25 inches

Richards was influenced by the British art theorist John Ruskin and his idea of faithfulness to nature.

There is an almost photographic faithfulness in this work but also a transcendent, poetic mood.