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Category: impressionism
A Tragic Life: Florence Carter-Wood
A Hint of Mystery: Florence Carter-Wood Portrait of Florence Munnings, at sunset (1912) is a key work in Munnings’ Cornish period and a rare painting by Munnings of his first wife, Florence Carter-Wood. Florence was an artist herself, exhibiting both at the Royal Academy and at Walker Art Gallery. According to Christie’s, “She is probably…
Childe Hassam: The Ledges, October in Old Lyme, Connecticut, 1907
From Tonalism to Impressionism “Already familiar with other New England art colonies, Childe Hassam found much to like in Old Lyme, including the town’s history and rugged terrain. He depicted the area’s rock ledges in both spring and fall during stays at Florence Griswold’s boarding house. Choosing a square canvas and setting a high horizon line,…
Lilian Westcott Hale: Black Eyed Susans
Charcoal Portraiture “Without Rival” A gifted draftsman, Lilian Westcott Hale was widely admired for her charcoal style, characterized by the use of fine, vertical strokes. Hale was a consummate portraitist, particularly in the medium of charcoal, with a contemporary critic writing, “in her drawing it is safe to say that she is without a rival…Mrs. Hale’s…
Lilla Cabot Perry: The Blue Kimono
Who Is Lilla Cabot Perry? Lilla Cabot Perry (1848 – 1933) was an American Impressionist artist and writer who published four volumes of original poetry and a translation of classical Greek verse. According to National Museum of Women in the Arts, “Although she had no formal art training until age 36, Lilla Cabot Perry became a professional painter…
Henry Moret: Grosse mer (1913)
Who Is Henry Moret? Henry Moret (1856 – 1913) was a French Impressionist painter best known for his association with Paul Gauguin and the artist colony at Pont-Aven in Brittany and for his richly colored landscapes of coastal Brittany. After his beginning as a more classical painter, Moret’s style developed under the influence of Gauguin…
Maurice Denis: September Evening (1891)
Who Is Maurice Denis? Maurice Denis (November 1870 – 1943) was a French painter, decorative artist and writer who was an important figure in the transitional period between impressionism and modern art. He was associated with Les Nabis then the Symbolist movement, and then with a return to neo-classicism. His theories contributed to the…
Nikolai Bogdanov-Belsky: Latgalian Girls
Latgalian Girls Listening Latgalian Girls belongs to a series of paintings depicting the children of the territory of eastern Latvia which provided great inspiration for the artist following his permanent move to Riga in 1921. These sun-suffused canvases which captured the local peasant children in their native countryside were exhibited to great acclaim at the…
Nikolai Bogdanov-Belsky: Symphony (1920)
Well, No Wonder! For most of this year, I have searched for good quality images of Nikolai Bogdanov-Belsky’s paintings. His work deserves close study, which demands images of the highest resolution. Furthermore, many of us won’t find his works in museums near us for scrutiny. Symphony is one of my favorites. Sotheby’s writes, “Bogdanov-Belsky studied…
Emile Claus: Sunny Day (1899)
A Risk: Google Translates Emile Claus’ oeuvre gives us a picture of everyday life in the Leie region around the turn of the 1900s. A painting as Sunny Day, which was created exactly that year, is a model for his narrative impressionism. The canvas displays remarkable parallels with the work of a well-trained photographer. After…
Kojima Torajiro and His Patron
Japan Meets Modern Western Art Torajiro Kojima (1881-1929) was a Japanese artist who chose to use the same visual language as the Impressionists. After a course in Western painting at the University of Fine Arts and Music in Tokyo, Japan, Torajiro Kojima left Japan in 1908 to study in Paris, aided by his patrons, the Ohara…
Jenny Montigny: “The Gardener”
Google Said ‘oeuvre’, not I 😉 Jenny Montigny preferred to paint everyday scenes from the countryside and village life in Sint-Martens-Latem. As here in “The Gardener”, these snapshots are not a reason to visualize social abuses or emphasize the weight of labor. On the contrary, Montigny always painted a harmonious society. The subject itself seems…
Torajirō Kojima: Woman Reading
Modern Western Art Meets Japan Torajiro Kojima (1881-1929) was a Japanese artist who chose to learn the techniques of the Impressionists. After a course in Western painting at the University of Fine Arts and Music in Tokyo, Japan, Torajiro Kojima left Japan in 1908 to study in Paris. With the Ohara family as patrons, he enrolled…
Eric Sloane: Barn in the Valley
Click for Enlarged Image: Best viewed At Sunnyside To be auctioned November 8: Eric Sloane, Barn in the Valley.Oil on Masonite, 17-1/2 x 22-3/4 inches (44.5 x 57.8 cm), Signed, image source: MutualArt: https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Barn-in-the-Valley/9B9F8C2531AAE839 Thanks for visiting! 🙂 The End
Maurice Brazil Prendergast: Portrait of a Girl with Flowers (1913)
Click for Enlarged Image Details Title: Portrait of a Girl with Flowers Artist: Maurice Brazil Prendergast (American, St. John’s, Newfoundland 1858–1924 New York) Date: ca. 1910–13 Medium: Oil on canvas Credit Line: Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876–1967), 1967 Read More Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History At Sunnyside: Maurice Prendergast: Biography and Central…
Maurice Brazil Prendergast: Picnic by the Inlet
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Smoke and Mirrors – Existential Poetry
Smoke and Mirrors And you, with all your glorious flowering self-deception – your words are glowing embers and your tongue stokes the fire that engulfs me like paper but I think it fills the void inside of you. How does it feel to sleep with the lies you’ve fashioned from the flames? Some may wonder…
Édouard Vuillard: Flowers on Mantel at Les Clayes
Édouard Vuillard: Flowers on a Mantelpiece at Les Clayes (1935)
“Magnificent peonies, at the point of wilting, have been arranged on a mantelpiece in front of a mirror. Depicted vividly in a matt paint, their deep red hue …
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: Party in the Country (1882)
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, “Party in the Country” Owner/Location: Private collection Dates: circa 1882 Artist age: Approximately 18 years old. Dimensions: Height: 46.7 cm (18.39 in.), Width: 38.8 cm (15.28 in.) Medium: Painting – oil on canvas Click for image detail: Image source: Athenaeum and wikiart
Maurice Brazil Prendergast: A woman and two girls sitting in the park
the-met-art: Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook: A woman and two girls sitting in the park by Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Robert Lehman Collection Medium: Recto: watercolor over pencil; bordered in pencil and watercolor Robert Lehman Collection, 1975 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/459540
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