Bricher is considered the last important luminist painter.

Rein calls Mr. Naegle a contemporary "luminist".

But the show, well produced by the art historian Mark D. Mitchell, makes a worthy case for a capable minor-league Luminist.

A self taught luminist, he explored the effects of light and how it reflected, refracted, and absorbed on landscapes and seascapes.

Bonnard, Cezanne, the Spanish luminist Sorolla, all seem to have made at least a dim impression on the other side of the Iron Curtain.

Having first adopted the "luminist" style of Emile Claus, he came under the influence of expressionism and cubism during World War I.

Though solitary figures are common in the contemporary luminist paintings of the Hudson River school (to which the artist was likely exposed), the artist's approach to the subject is markedly different.

(Smith) National Academy Museum: 'Luminist Horizons: The Art and Collection of James A. Suydam,' through Dec. 31.

An American art pioneer in light art and luminist sculpture widely known for her neon, steel, aluminum and acrylic glass installations, she has always used the mononym Chryssa professionally.

Nasmith's Tolkien artwork, which echoes the luminist landscapes and Victorian neoclassical styles, eventually caught the attention of Tolkien's publishers, who included four of his paintings in the 1987 Tolkien Calendar.

From the courtyard garden, three lofty studios lead to family rooms, all lined with his paintings, which the brochure describes as luminist, naturalist, orientalist, romanticist, impressionist and (a new one on Gila and me) costumbrist.

Since 1984, the recreational program of the association is organising the Golden River Toertocht on the Leie River along the famous Flemish luminist and expressionist painters village of Sint-Martens-Latem.

Joel Meyerowitz 'The Bay Sky Series' James Danziger Gallery 415 West Broadway (near Spring Street) SoHo Through Nov. 23 Joel Meyerowitz is a luminist through and through.

This painting, with its eggshell sky and dun-colored landscape is both a Luminist masterpiece - a moment of time is frozen in light - and a memory piece, commissioned by the New York lawyer George Washington Strong as an evocation of his own youth.

It is a landscape painted in a Luminist style.

These and similar works have led some historians to characterize Heade as a Luminist painter.

Mr. Suydam's early works were painted in a smooth Luminist style compatible with his material.

Where virtuosity is concerned, there is nothing to choose between pictures that make Luminist canvases seem turgid by comparison.

In DeGrailly's more Luminist scene, the train, on a trestle close to glassy water, is dwarfed by dome-shaped hills.

Of his Luminist fellows, Gifford was probably the most technically skilled, particularly adept in the working of glazes that segued from dark to light tones.

Fortunately, John Gundelfinger provides respite with a Luminist gouache of fields under a twilight sky ribbed with a few dark clouds.

Kensett's style evolved gradually, from the traditional Hudson River School manner in the 1850s into the more refined Luminist style in his later years.

Mark Innerst's is a Luminist perfection, and he reportedly achieves it on the roofs of Manhattan's Lower East Side with a little help from photographs.

They are painted in a smooth Luminist style that is entirely compatible with his material, pleasantly detached scenes of rural tranquillity or calm seas beneath hazy skies.

Mr. McCabe, who lived in Greenwich, Conn., was also a prominent dealer and collector of late 19th century American paintings, largely from the Luminist school.

Shelburne's extensive collection of 19th-century American paintings features Hudson River School landscapes, Luminist seascapes, portraits, still lifes, and genre scenes.

It takes frontier sunsets and Luminist seascapes, not to mention the Grand Canyon and Niagara Falls, to London, where they have rarely visited.

The Heade, which has appeared in many a Luminist show, is itself incandescent with the afterglow of a setting sun that gilds the clouds and turns the marsh waters to blood.

Jean Leon Gerome Ferris's handling of his all-over pinky-gray tones in "Ship at Sea" underscores the importance of the Luminist tradition.

At the same time, archetypal, often symmetrical images of unpeopled nature evoke the pantheistic mysticism of Emerson or the Luminist vision of Martin Johnson Heade.

Now best known for his Luminist landscapes, Heade was by his own admission a hummingbird nut and his images, which were rediscovered in 1981, should make converts of their beholders.

A mood of nostalgia colors Lane's later canvases, contributing to the Luminist images he executed near the end of his career and for which the artist was greatly admired before his death.

Lane was a major Luminist painter; the style was an outgrowth of the Hudson River School, and Luminist painters specialized on the effects of light on water.

John Beerman substitutes irony, although it would take a very academic sensibility to perceive this in his Luminist canvas of grass lying low under a blue sky that is diagonally striped with dark clouds lighted from below.

Hudson River School painters include Asher B. Durand, Jasper Francis Cropsey, Sanford Gifford, a Luminist painter, James and William Hart pastoral landscapes with cattle.

Sanford Robinson Gifford, a well-known Luminist painter who lived in the city of Hudson, made it his life's work to study the effect of this light on the atmosphere, the river and the mountains of the region.

A German-born painter, Roesen flourished around the same time as the Luminist Martin Johnson Heade, who is represented by the beautiful but not too Luminist "Seascape with Sunset."

Some of the Luminist silkiness that Samuel Colman achieved in his well-known view of smokestacks, yachts and clouds at Storm King (the National Gallery) can be seen in his "Summer, Hastings-on-Hudson."

Heade's work sank into obscurity after his death, and in the decades after its rediscovery in the 1940's he was usually considered a tangential member of the Hudson River School or a latecomer to the American Luminist style.