Sentence examples for cranch from inspiring English sources

As a landscape painter, Cranch ventured out into nature in search of the miraculous, something that would touch his soul.

In fact, after he returned to New York from almost a decade abroad, Cranch earned a good portion of his living cranking out Venetian scenes for wealthy patrons.

What properly distinguishes Cranch, it seems to me, was the explicit desire to have his nature paintings seen as a visualization of the divine.

Cranch also expressed his religious sentiment through writing, and today, still, is probably better known as a transcendentalist poet than as a painter.

The son of a Virginia judge, Cranch graduated from Harvard Divinity School in 1835 and began his working life as a Unitarian minister.

That is perfectly understandable, especially given that the checklist includes wonderful pieces not only by Cole and Cranch but also by Asher B. Durand, Albert Bierstadt, Jasper Cropsey, John W. Casilear and George Inness.

There was Anne of Cleves tea shop, its window bulging with cakes that oozed fillings and icing, and Cranch's Original Sweetshop ("Est 1869"), twinkling with sherbet lemons, pear drops and chocolate eggs.

It was only in 1938 that she was appointed to the Harvard faculty, when she was named William Cranch Bond Professor of Astronomy.

After the first successful demonstration of the telegraph, in the eighteen-thirties, the Transcendentalist poet and writer Christopher Pearse Cranch wrote a story, "An Evening with the Telegraph-Wires," which appeared in the September, 1858, Atlantic Monthly.

One of them is Christopher Pearse Cranch (1813-1892), a poet, author and landscape painter of talent who has spent much of the past century in obscurity.

NEW LONDON Lyman Allyn Art Museum "At Home and Abroad: The Transcendental Landscapes of Christopher Pearse Cranch," paintings.