Constance Coleman Richardson, born in 1905, painted in realist style American- Scene landscapes of whatever environment and locale she happened to be in at any given time, including rural Vermont and New York State, along the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River, Duluth and Hastings, Minnesota, or in Lusk, Wyoming. Her emphasis was on the grandeur of the country and not on industrial ugliness, and many of her works had luminous effects. She also painted portrait and genre scenes.

Richardson sometimes worked directly from nature, alla prima, with canvases completed on the spot, or from oil sketches she later translated into finished paintings in the studio. She used technical methods she learned from museu...