Author: At Sunnyside - Where Truth and Beauty Meet

Sunnyside was born many years ago, the name of my fictional home for orphaned children and animals in a story for Mrs. Watson’s eighth grade writing class. A medical degree and six biologic homeschooled children later, Sunnyside became the name of my classical education website, Sunnyside Classical Christian School. Now entering a new phase of life, I plan to rest and reflect on all things true and beautiful here At Sunnyside. Who is the lovely woman pictured above? Meet my kindred spirit, Euphemia White Van Rensselear in my favorite portrait painted by George Healy in 1842 (On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 75)

Jan Dismas Zelenka: Capriccio in A major

Hat Tip Many thanks to Claudio Capriolo at la regina gioiosa for introducing me to this selection in his post, Capriccio – III. Read More Discover Zelenka website Luvena Vysekal at wikiwand Jan Dismas Zelenka at wikiwand Thanks for Visiting 🌻 ~Sunnyside

David Lloyd Evans: Three Swans in Flight

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John William Waterhouse: Flora

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Anders Zorn: Midnatt

Question Why is this painting titled “Midnight”? Can anyone enlighten me? See More Anders Zorn At Sunnyside Anders Zorn at Sotheby’s Anders Zorn at wikimedia Anders Zorn at Zorn Museum Anders Zorn at National Museum, Sweden Read More Anders Zorn at wikiwand Thanks for Visiting 🌻 ~Sunnyside

Gustave Loiseau: La vue de la cour à Pontoise

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Exhibition: Cezanne at Jas de Bouffan

Exhibition Cezanne at Jas de Bouffan Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence The Cezanne 2025 international exhibition 28 June – 12 October 2025 “June marks the beginning of Cezanne 2025, a season of cultural events taking place across Aix-en-Provence, where the artist was born. A highlight of the festivities is the phased unveiling of the newly restored country house, Jas…

Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones: The Shoe Shop

“In 1911 the department store was a relatively new and important urban institution, and The Shoe Shop depicts the activities of female employees and their customers. Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones rendered this modern subject in a rapid, painterly style, paying particular attention to effects of light and atmosphere. Her early work often represented women in the modern…

Anders Zorn: Portrait of Edith Palgrave Edward

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Pierre Bonnard: i conti della giornata

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John Singer Sargent: Lady Agnew of Lochnaw

See More John Singer Sargent At Sunnyside Paintings by John Singer Sargent Sargent and Paris at The Met Read More John Singer Sargent at wikiwand Portrait of Madame X at wikiwand John Singer Sargent biography at MFA Boston Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose video at Khan Academy Lady Agnew of Lochnaw at wikiwand Daughters of Edward…

John William Waterhouse: The Necklace

“This is a preliminary idea for an illustration to Keats’s Lamia (Royal Academy, 1909), the tale of a nymph trapped in the body of a serpent. Hermes sets her free, and revives her human form. The picture is a reprise of others by Waterhouse in which a beautiful nymph is seated at the edge of a pool…All…

Anders Zorn: Sommarnöje

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Leon de Smet: Bateaux au port

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Robert Delaunay: Cathédrale de Laon

“Reflecting the peak of Synthetic Cubism at that time, the city appears deconstructed into geometric planes, shifting between two and three dimensions…The composition unfolds across multiple planes, which themselves subdivide further: the shape of the canvas—like a window onto the landscape—mirrors the shape of the building windows, which in turn repeat the city’s architectural forms…Here,…

John William Waterhouse: Female head study for ‘A Naiad’

“This highly-impressionistic sketch is a study of the female model in Waterhouse’s painting of 1893 entitled A Naiad (private collection). It anticipates his masterpiece of three years later Hylas and the Nymphs (1896, Manchester City Gallery), which depicts Hylas, a companion of Hercules, who becomes bewitched by a group of mesmerisingly beautiful water-nymphs who lure…

Anders Zorn: Our Daily Bread

Mary Cassatt: Little Girl in a Blue Armchair

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Gani Odutokun: Bioform I

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Stepan Kolesnikov: Lilacs in a Blue Vase

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John William Waterhouse: Miranda, The Tempest

“With the present work Waterhouse demonstrates the breadth of his skill as Miranda braces herself against the rising storm, her thick, auburn hair and the weighty folds of her fabric gripped by the winds. The pale hand held to her breast seemingly visualizes the moment when Miranda cries “Against my very heart. Poor souls, they…

Emil Nolde: Blaue Stiefmütterchen

“There is silver blue, sky blue and thunder blue. Every colour holds within it a soul, which makes me happy or repels me, and which acts as a stimulus. To a person who has no art in him, colours are colours, tones tones…and that is all. All their consequences for the human spirit, which range…

Sam Robson: Keep on the Sunny Side 🌻

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Claude Monet: Nymphéas fragment

“Monet first painted the Nymphéas in 1897 and the motif occupied the artist until his death in 1926; hundreds of canvases illustrate the pond and surrounding gardens. As the series progressed, Monet’s art underwent a shift from his earlier, more precise impressionistic landscapes to increasingly indulgent and vibrant waterscapes that border on abstraction. Monet wrote…

Edvard Grieg: Morning Mood

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John William Waterhouse: Sketches

Vincente Manansala: Pounding Rice

“A prolific member of the pre-war Thirteen Moderns and of the post-war Neo-Realists, Vicente Manansala is respected as one of the most influential artists in the Filipino modern arts sphere, seizing the nation and its characters to shape a vision of Philippine modernism that is strongly anchored on social and folk themes…It is within this…

Frederick Carl Frieseke: The Yellow Room

“In The Yellow Room Frieseke fused bold color juxtapositions and careful formal design, bringing together the qualities he most admired in the work of Monet and Whistler. He posed his model in the living room of his own house in Giverny, which itself was one of his artistic creations. Frieseke had painted the walls lemon…

Paul Gauguin: Pêcheur et baigneurs sur l’Aven

“Painted in late summer of 1888, Paul Gauguin’s Pêcheur et baigneurs sur l’Aven depicts a fisherman and several intrepid bathers on the shallow banks of the River Aven in Brittany. The human figures in the scene are utterly dwarfed by the colorful landscape that surrounds them…This vivid, evocative painterly landscape represents a crucial turning point…

František Kupka’s “Visible Music”

“Kupka was very interested in creating “visible music”, exploring for example scales and fugues of Classical music in colours and forms. He wanted to paint music so people could have a sounding experience when seeing his work.” READ FULL ESSAY: La modernista “The expression Localisation des mobiles graphiques, as these works are entitled, appears frequently in…

Frank Weston Benson: The Reader

“A leader of the Boston School of art and a member of “The Ten,” Frank Weston Benson is one of the best-known American artists to adapt the Impressionist aesthetic to create his own signature style…In the present work, the artist depicts his eldest daughter Eleanor enjoying a beautiful summer day reading outside while perched under…