Illustration · Charlottetown
Samuel Palmer (British, 1805–1881) Active 1805–1881. Public-domain works from the Cleveland Museum of Art Open Access collection, used as development stand-ins for the Organized Chaos Arts directory.
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
Selected work
4 works, from the studio to here.
Samuel Palmer · etching · 1879
In a highly personal style, Palmer combined minute study of natural details with Gothic features from early Northern art and figure types borrowed from William Blake (also in this gallery). His moonlit landscapes of Kent appear as a fruitful, mysterious paradise, populated by a race of rustic heroes, personifications of pastoral contentment. Image and data from the Cleveland Museum of Art, released under Creative Commons Zero (CC0).
Samuel Palmer · watercolor and gouache with graphite and scraping · 1865
Samuel Palmer developed a personal and emotionally charged style of landscape painting that celebrated nature as the product of divine creation. This watercolor of a spectacularly colorful sunset over the hills of Surrey was painted by Palmer toward the end of his life. An autumn sky heavy with rows of cumulus clouds shimmers in a pattern of pink and amethyst, as slivers of golden light emanate from the setting sun. The idyllic landscape is an elegy not only to a passing day, but to the brevity of life itself. Image and data from the Cleveland Museum of Art, released under Creative Commons Zero (CC0).
Samuel Palmer · etching · 1852
This early proof (an impression created while the artist is still working on the design) by Samuel Palmer features his illustrations before the accompanying text for Songs and Ballads of Shakespeare was printed. Both images relate to a drinking song featured in act 2 of William Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, praising Bacchus, the Roman god of wine, and his products. Palmer’s handwritten notes describe modifications he was planning to make. Palmer started to work in prints late in his career but quickly became accomplished in the medium. His imagery is characterized by juxtaposing delicate textures and dramatic lights and shadows, as seen here in the contrast between the radiant Bacchus and those making and enjoying the drink. Image and data from the Cleveland Museum of Art, released under Creative Commons Zero (CC0).
Samuel Palmer · etching · 1850
Palmer came to printmaking relatively late in his career in 1850 when he was elected to the Etching Club in London. He created a significant number of landscape etchings, intricate in detail and sonorous in chiaroscuro. In The Skylark, one of Palmer’s earliest compositions, a solitary figure in a rural landscape contemplates the flight of a songbird. Palmer has been compared to the German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich (also in this exhibition), who produced images infused with a similarly indefinable atmosphere of calm, mystery, and breathless silence. Image and data from the Cleveland Museum of Art, released under Creative Commons Zero (CC0).
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