The American Pre-Raphaelites: Radical Realists

Fidelia Bridges, Milkweeds, 1876, watercolor on paper, Proctor Collection, Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Museum of Art, Utica. Image: Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute/Art Resource, NY

Henry Farrer, Winter Scene in Moonlight, 1869, watercolor and gouache on white wove paper, Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Morris K. Jessup Fund, Martha and Barbara Fleischman, and Katherine and Frank Martucci Gifts, 1999

Thomas Charles Farrer, Sketching from Nature, 1861, pen and black and brown ink on paper, cut into the shape of an arch, National Gallery of Art, Washington, John Davis Hatch Collection. Image courtesy of the Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington

William John Hennessy, Mon Brave, 1870, oil on board, Brooklyn Museum, New York, Purchased with Funds given by the Rembrandt Club

John Henry Hill, Gentians, 1870, watercolor heightened with gum glaze over graphite on paper, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth

John William Hill, Bird’s Nest and Dog Roses, 1867, watercolor, gouache, graphite, and selective glazing with scratching out on paper, New-York Historical Society, Gift of Mrs. Roswell Skeel, Jr. Photography © New-York Historical Society

John William Hill, West Nyack, New York (The Lilies of the Field), 1868, watercolor on paper, Brooklyn Museum, New York, Gift of George J. Arden, Carroll J. Dickson, Mrs. Alfred T. Dillhoff, the Estate of Emil Fuchs, Mrs. Willis Reese, and Dr. Ben Shenson, by exchange, and the Dick S. Ramsay Fund

Charles Herbert Moore, Hudson River, Above Catskill, 1865, oil on canvas, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth

Charles Herbert Moore, Pine Tree, 1868, pen and black ink with touches of graphite on tan board, Princeton University Art Museum, Gift of Miss Elizabeth Huntington Moore, the artist’s daughter. Image: Princeton University Art Museum/Art Resource, NY

Henry Roderick Newman, Grapes and Olives, 1878, watercolor on paper, Brooklyn Museum, New York, Purchased with funds given by Sol Schreiber in memory of Rose Schreiber, and with funds given by Joanne Witty and Eugene Keilin, Dick S. Ramsay Fund and Designated Purchase Fund

William Trost Richards, A Neglected Corner of the Wheatfield, 1865, oil on canvas, Private collection

John Ruskin, Fragment of the Alps, c. 1854–1856, watercolor and gouache over graphite on cream wove paper, Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Gift of Samuel Sachs. Imaging Department © President and Fellows of Harvard College

John Ruskin, Twig of Peach Bloom, c. 1874, watercolor and gouache on cream wove paper, Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Bequest of Mrs. Alfred Mansfield Brooks. Imaging Department © President and Fellows of Harvard College

Aaron Draper Shattuck, Leaf Study with Yellow Swallow Tail, c. 1859, oil on canvas, Private collection. Photography by Laura Wulf

William J. Stillman, Photographic Study from Photographic Studies by W. J. Stillman. Part 1. The Forest. Adirondac Woods, 1859, albumen print, Milne Library Special Collections, State University of New York College at Geneseo