Constable painted the first of his pure cloud studies on Sept.13, 1821, with the notation: “One o’clock. Slight wind at North West, which became tempestuous in the afternoon, with rain all the ...

John Constable’s “The Hay Wain” (1821), ... And it is the canvas’s brilliant sunlight, which figures directly overhead in a cloud-strewn, summer sky, ...

If clouds are pure formlessness, we can do what we like with them. If they have fixed identities, they may resist our shaping. This Study of Clouds by Constable claims a strictly observational status.

The English painter John Constable spent the summers of 1821 and 1822 painting clouds on Hampstead Heath in London with unusual intensity and application. It was an activity he called “skying ...

A long-lost sketch by artist John Constable smashed its estimated when it sold for $415,000 at Tennants Auctioneers in England. ... even as lighter clouds and blue sky emerge at upper right. ...

John Constable is considered one of Britain's greatest landscape painters. Constable lived from 1776 to 1837 - and while he was a contemporary of that master of landscape, JMW Turner, Constable ...

John Constable painted “A Scene on the River Stour,” popularly known as “The White Horse,” in 1819. ... and the wind carries an ominous black cloud in from the sea beyond the right margin.

A previously unknown oil sketch by the renowned British landscape artist John Constable is headed to auction. The early 19th-century artwork depicts Dedham Vale, a green, sprawling valley some 70 ...