Linear Clouds in Old Painting

[Mick West]

Soda Springs, Sierra Nevada Mountains. Norton Bush 1868

In a visit to the wonderful Crocker Museum in Sacramento I saw a couple of paintings,both over 100 years old that had linear clouds in them. The type of clouds that might be mistaken for contrails or "chemtrails".

Crests of the Sierra, Charles Dormon Robinson, 1909 (detail)

Old paintings like these are useful in demonstrating that the sky has not in fact changed recently, and also that not every linear cloud you see is a contrail (or a "chemtrail").

I just took the above photos with my iPhone. If you happen to see similar in an art gallery or museum, then take a snap, and post it here.

 

[cloudspotter]

Well I know where I'm spending my lunch break

 

[Henk001]

Old paintings like these are useful in demonstrating that the sky has not in fact changed recently, and also that not every linear cloud you see is a contrail (or a "chemtrail").

Or perhaps these paintings show that in earlier times aliens were flying around in jetplanes.

 

[Trailspotter]

This is a 1895 painting "Fresh wind on Volga river" by a classical Russian landscape painter Isaac Levitan, showing cirrus clouds with linear streaks above small cumulus clouds.

 

[Whitebeard]

May Morning on Magdalen College Tower, Oxford, Ancient Annual Ceremony

William Holman Hunt (circa 1893)

Southern Coast of Guernsey

John Brett (1875)

Waiting for the Ferry

David Cox (1845)

(Images from the collection of Birmingham City museum and art gallery)

 

[cloudspotter]

Wow you guys got out to your local art galleries quick!

 

[Whitebeard]

John Linnell
Kensington Gravel Pits 1811–2

James Ward
View in Tabley Park 1813–8

(images from the Tate Britain collection)

 

[Whitebeard]

Wow you guys got out to your local art galleries quick!

Going to my local gallery next week, the one I posted are from a few collections I'm familiar with (Done the Birmingham City Gallery and the Tate Britain so far) from their on line collections.

 

[FreiZeitGeist]

You should take a look at John Constable, he made a lot of paintings with clouds

source: http://www.wikiart.org/en/john-constable/spring-clouds-study-1822

 

[Trailspotter]

Wow you guys got out to your local art galleries quick!

No, I've been browsing online catalogues of Russian galleries, in particular, the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.

Linear clouds in this 1852 painting of the Smolny Convent near St. Petersburg apparently form a 'contrail' grid

Here is a 1850 painting of St. Petersburg by the same artist, Alexey Bogolyubov:

Apparently, linear non-contrail clouds were fairly common at the Baltic Sea at the time, as they are now.

 

[Mick West]

Hey, you're supposed to go to a museum!

Of course it's a lot quicker if they have the collection online.
http://www.metmuseum.org/collection...90&pg=1&ao=on&ft=clouds&what=Paintings&pos=69

The Birth of the Virgin

Artist: Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) (Italian, born by 1416–died 1484 Urbino)

Date: 1467


This bit looks like contrail pendules.

 

[Trailspotter]

Hey, you're supposed to go to a museum!

I thought this thread is about realistic paintings of the skies, which are over 100 years old.
Not every museum allows taking snaps of their exhibits

 

[Whitebeard]

(Paintings in Welsh national collection)

Barry Docks
by William Lionel Wyllie (circa 1910)

Chepstow Castle
by James Dickson Innes (1907)

Coast Scene
by William Nicholson (1906)

Farm at Zennor
by Allan Gwynne-Jones (1919)

Glaslyn Valley, North Wales
by Roland Vivian Pitchforth (1940)

In the Fields in June
by George Clausen (1914)

Lake Pátzcuaro, Mexico
by Cedric Lockwood Morris (circa 1935)

 

[deirdre]

This one says Mt. Shasta :0

 

[M Bornong]

I also posted this in the Pre 1995 Persistent Contrail Archive. https://www.metabunk.org/pre-1995-persistent-contrail-archive.t487/page-5#post-71179

I took this from the book: "The Soul of All Scenery: A History of the Sky in Art" by Stan Gedzleman. http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~stan/skyart.html

With more than just cirrus clouds now being used as "proof" of geoengineering and or HAARP manipulation, I have used this book many times to show how little our skies have changed over the centuries that man has been recording them.

 

[cloudspotter]

Well I did go to a museum. Unfortunately my photos didn't come out well thanks to lighting and glare.

Here's one I tried to photograph. Solitude by John Martin 1846

 

[Jani73]

Red sunset from 1861 without chems, is that possible?!

Cornelius Krieghoff. The Trapper's Return

http://www.ago.net/agoid68853

 

[Herr Gnorts]

Antonio Carnicero - "Ascent of the Monsieur Bouclé's Montgolfier Balloon in the Gardens of Aranjuez", 1784

 

[Mick West]

"Lake Tahoe" by Norton Bush, 1880

 

[Lacunosus]

Wow. This thread is amaaaaaazing!

 

[derwoodii]

William Turner 1789 to 1840 sky's have many to interpret


https://www.tate.org.uk/search?gid=999999781&type=artwork&page=1



https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-sunset-a-boat-on-a-river-d22768