“Childe Hassam posed a young model at a mahogany table with two vases of Maréchal Niel roses, a flower named for Napoléon III’s secretary of war. Hassam believed that people were shaped by their environments, and here the hybrid roses symbolize America’s culture, which he thought had absorbed the best elements of European and Asian history. The two…
Category: Music
Joseph Haydn: String Quartet Op. 64 No. 2
Autour d’un point is the most developed of a series of closely related works which culminated in an eponymous oil painting, now in the collection of the Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. “In this early study, the brushwork and color as well as a slight blurring of the edges create a living,…
Debussy’s Clair de Lune IV
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Danish String Quartet: Quartet #15 in A minor (Beethoven)
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Presidents’ Day 2024
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Matthew West: When God Whispers Your Name
“Although this picture was executed earlier, it appears to have been reworked by Hacker in 1914, at the outbreak of the First World War. This accounts for the painting being signed twice, once lower right, and later lower left. To add poignancy, an eagle (symbol of the German Empire) hovers upper right, while the figure…
Richard Edward Miller: Sewing by Lamplight
“Miller was among a group of American artists living and working abroad in France and his reputation grew through regular exhibitions at the Paris Salon According to Marie Louise Kane, “At the same time that he was painting large, impressive canvases for exhibition and sale, Miller created smaller, more intimate works in a surprisingly spontaneous,…
Vernet: Mountain Landscape With Approaching Storm
“This is one of a pair of monumental landscapes commissioned by the Marquess of Lansdowne for his famous collection at Berkeley Square in London. Originally, this depiction of the destructive power of a violent storm was meant to find its complement in a beautiful sunset harbor scene. The two paintings were separated in the early…
Peder Mork Monsted: A Village in the Snow
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Frank Cadogan Cowper: The Patient Griselda
“The subject is taken from the tenth tale of the tenth day of Boccaccio’s Decameron, a story rendered into Latin by Petrarch and adapted by Chaucer for the ‘Clerk’s Tale’ in the Canterbury Tales. The Marquis of Saluzzo is persuaded by his subjects to marry, and chooses as his wife a humble peasant girl, Griselda….
Arvo Pärt: Spiegel im Spiegel
“Spiegel im Spiegel (lit. ‘mirror(s) in the mirror’) is a composition by Arvo Pärt written in 1978, just before his departure from Estonia. The piece is in the tintinnabular style, wherein a melodic voice, operating over diatonic scales, and tintinnabular voice, operating within a triad on the tonic, accompany each other. The title refers to…
Monday Morning With Mendelssohn
“Presenting a fantastic tableau of resplendent neon hues, Huang Yuxing’s fantastical landscape guides the viewer into a deeply meditative and radiant natural scene. One of the most renowned artists in China working today, Huang Yuxing’s innovative use of the Chinese realist technique of Gongbi are in full display in Mountain Bathed under Golden Sun (2018-19),…
Classic Hymns: To God be the Glory
“Norman Rockwell executed the present work as a preparatory study for Freedom of Worship, one of the four paintings that comprise his iconic Four Freedoms series. Inspired by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s 1941 State of the Union address, in which he outlined four essential human rights, Rockwell sought to capture the ideas of freedom from want,…
Julia Rovinsky: Sonata A Major K.331 (Mozart)
“Painted circa 1922, Le corsage rayé presents a radiant and quintessential example of Bonnard’s mastery of the interior scene. Painted from memory, Bonnard’s domestic vignettes stemmed from lived experience and years of inhabiting the same space as his subjects. Among his favoured models, …was his long-time muse and eventual wife Marthe de Méligny… Marthe’s enigmatic…
Beethoven: String quartet in A minor
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Winter With Coppedge and Vivaldi
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Schubert: Adagio in E-flat Major, D.897
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Vincent Van Gogh: Une liseuse de romans
“Van Gogh painted the canvas in mid-November, during the fourth week of Gauguin’s stay at Arles. A period of bad weather had descended upon the region, and the two painters were forced to work indoors. On November 10th, Van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo, “We are having wind and rain here, and I am…
Anna Fedorova Plays Tchaikovsky
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Reuven Rubin: Abraham and the Three Angels
Speaking of his own art…, Rubin declared: ‘I am not at all interested in copying nature. I wish only to express the idea of a Supreme Being. I am a seeker of a God who will end the suffering of humanity. I see Him in colour, line, movement’ (quoted in A. Werner, Rubin, Tel-Aviv, 1958,…
Georgia O’Keeffe: Anthurium
“In the present work, O’Keeffe skillfully renders the heart-shaped flower’s waxy texture and creates sharply delineated contours with her assured brushstrokes. She utilizes vibrant hues of red and green to imbue the composition with a sense of vitality and dynamism. By reducing extraneous details, O’Keeffe emphasizes the natural beauty of the flower and compels her viewer…
Frederick Carl Frieseke: The Blue Gown (1917)
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Joaquín Sorolla: Research (1897)
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Fazil Say: Le Coucou (Daquin)
“…Swiss author Jacques Chessex wrote, “Here, a kind of unbelievable meditation on the sublimation of things occurs and develops into fullness, as the space within the painting brings forth a delightful, sweet spectacle. While no human figure appears in it, the painting coalesces into a kind of highly concentrated power that connects in our minds…
Fountainview: Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus
Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus O soul, are you weary and troubled? No light in the darkness you see? There’s light for a look at the Savior, And life more abundant and free! Refrain: Turn your eyes upon Jesus, Look full in His wonderful face, And the things of earth will grow strangely dim, In…
Bomsori and Blechacz: La fille aux cheveux de lin (Debussy)
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Paganini: Complete Guitar Music
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Gerard Butler: The Music of the Night
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Henri Le Sidaner: Vase of Flowers
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Jun Luke Foster: Sonata in A minor K310 (Mozart)
“The present pastel is Redon’s beautiful rendering of the Cain and Abel story. Christian imagery rarely appeared in his early work. However, during the 1890s Redon responded to the Catholic revival that emerged in France during the previous decade and remained a powerful force in the nation’s cultural life until the First World War…Biblical imagery…
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