“Cassatt’s paintings often document the social interactions of well-to-do women like herself. The activities they depict—tea drinking, going to the theatre, tending children—fall within the normal routine for Cassatt’s sex and class. Yet the painter’s insistence upon representing such episodes from the modern world (even a sheltered segment of it), her dislike for narrative, and…
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Childe Hassam: The Church at Gloucester
Childe Hassam,The Church at Gloucester, 1918
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 769
Diego Rivera: Two Women (1914)
“The secret of my best work is that it is Mexican.” Diego Rivera “I know now that he who hopes to be universal in his art must plant in his own soil. Great art is like a tree, which grows in a particular place and has a trunk, leaves, blossoms, boughs, fruit, and roots of…
Rupert Bunny and Ola Gjeilo: Angels and Northern Lights
Click for Enlarged Detail Slideshow best viewed At Sunnyside Details Title: Angels Descending Creator:Rupert BUNNY Date Created: c.1897 Location: Paris Physical Dimensions: w98.4 x h157.5 cm Type: Painting Rights: Morgan Thomas Bequest Fund 1904, © Art Gallery of South Australia External Link: Art Gallery of South Australia Medium:oil on canvas Image source: Google Arts…
Sir Alfred Munnings: Langham Mill Pool
The Best of British Impressionism A strong supporter of en plein-air painting, Sir Alfred Munnings, “like the French Impressionist painters, … captures the salient qualities of form while conjuring the dramatic atmosphere of light, air, and colour.” Painted at a site only a few miles from his home, “Langham Mill Pool is an extraordinary example…
“C’est mon plaisir” – Isabella Stewart Gardner and her collection
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Isabella Stewart Gardner by John Singer Sargent, 1888, oil on canvas (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum P30WI) Above the central portal to the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum is her motto: “C’est mon plaisir” (“it is my pleasure”) This sums up perfectly the collection housed at Fenway Court: a unique and…
Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Bal du moulin de la Galette
Masterpiece of Early Impressionism This painting is doubtless Renoir‘s most important work of the mid 1870’s and was shown at the Impressionist exhibition in 1877. Though some of his friends appear in the picture, Renoir’s main aim was to convey the vivacious and joyful atmosphere of this popular dance garden on the Butte Montmartre. The…
Henri Martin: L’Eglise de Labastide-du-Vert
“Rare As Precious Stones” “If I look at a fragment of Henri Martin’s canvas… I immediately recognize it. I see a great number of dots of different colors, as precious and rare as precious stones. His palette is an enchantment. Many different interminglings of colors make a rare and rich harmony… And it is much more difficult…
Ivan Aivazovsky: Rocks in the Mist (1890)
Who Is Ivan Aivazovsky? Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (Russian: Иван Константинович Айвазовский; 29 July 1817 – 2 May 1900) was a Russian Romantic painter who is considered one of the greatest masters of marine art. Read More Ivan Aivazovsky at Wikiwand See More Ivan Aivazovsky At Sunnyside Thanks for Visiting 🙂 ~Sunnyside
Robert Lewis Reid: Fleur de Lis
Who Is Robert Lewis Reid? American impressionist Robert Reid was born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts in 1862. A painter of landscape, figures, still-life and murals, Reid was one of the founding members of the ‘Ten American Painters’, a group of Impressionists who rebelled against traditionalism in 1897. According to The Met, “Robert Reid was among the…
Renoir: Dance at Bougival I
Another Favorite Dance at Bougival (French: La Danse à Bougival) is an 1883 work by Pierre-Auguste Renoir currently in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, Sebastian Smee of The Boston Globe writes that this Renoir painting is “one of the museum’s most beloved works“. (Smee 2014). The Museum of Fine…
Emile Claus: Winter Orchard (1911)
“Go Home Quickly” Emile Claus, a Belgian painter, draughtsman, pastellist, and print-maker, became one of the leading artists in Belgium supporting the movement of “Luminism.” Influenced by French Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism after viewing the works of Henri Le Sidaner and Claude Monet, Emile Claus changed his painting style to “brighter colors and pleinairisme.” in an…
Hermenegildo Anglada-Camarasa : La novia de Benimamet (1906)
Click for Enlarged View: Slideshow best viewed At Sunnyside Details “La novia de Benimamet” Hermen Anglada Camarasa Barcelona, España, 1871 – Puerto de Pollensa, Mallorca, España, 1959 Fecha: 1906 Técnica: Óleo sobre lienzo Dimensiones: 140 x 175 c Source: http://www.museoreinasofia.es/coleccion/obra/novia-benimamet Thanks for Visiting 🙂 ~Sunnyside
James Jebusa Shannon: Jungle Tales (Contes de la Jungle) 1895
Who Is James Jebusa Shannon? James Jebusa Shannon was born in the United States and moved to England in 1878 where he trained at South Kensington. According to ArtUK, “Shannon enjoyed early success and, under the influence of Sargent, developed a bravura portrait style which made him one of the most sought after society portraitists…
Édouard Vuillard: La balayeuse, 346 rue Saint-Honoré (1895)
Living at Work: 1891-1896 Painted in 1895, the year when Vuillard and the Hessels first met, this scene takes place in the [Vuillard] family apartment at 346 Rue Saint-Honoré… The Vuillard family lived there from 1891 to 1896… Vuillard’s mother, who struggled with recurrent financial difficulties, turned it into a dual living and working space…
Wassily Kandinsky: Rapallo, Boote (1905)
Abandoning a promising legal career in Moscow at the age of 30, Kandinsky traveled to Munich to study painting. From 1903 and for the next five years he traveled widely throughout Russia, North Africa and Europe, arriving with companion Gabriele Münter in Rapallo on Italy’s North West coast in December 1905. They rented a house…
“Se potessero i sospir miei” (Imeneo)
“Se potessero i sospir miei” from Handel’s Imeneo Jeffrey Stivers produced this excellent video pairing of “Se potessero i sospir miei” sung by Ann Hallenberg, conducted by Andreas Spering, and accompanied by Capella Augustina on period instruments. The song is from Handel’s opera Imeneo, (HWV 41). Fortunately for those like me who need a bit of…
Albrecht Dürer: Saint Eustace (c.1501)
“According to the legend, a Roman soldier called Placidas saw a vision of the crucified Christ appear between the antlers of a stag he was hunting. Upon hearing God’s voice spoken by the animal, ‘O Placidas, why pursuest thou me?’” Even if you don’t know the name, chances are you’ve seen a reproduction of one…
Gerrit Haverkamp: Floral Symphony
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Gustave Loiseau: Le Quai du Pothuis à Pontoise (1905)
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J.S. Bach: Prelude in C Minor
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Balalaika: Art and Music
Who Is Thorvald Hellesen? Thorvald Hellesen (25 December 1888 – 22 October 1937) was a Norwegian abstract artist, designer and painter. His art was associated with the Orphic Cubism movement. Around 1920, Hellesen…was one of few Norwegian artists to be inspired by cubism, but the painting also evinces a keen awareness of the other nascent…
Cynthia Gregory and Ivan Nagy: “In A Rehearsal Room”
Seven Minutes of Magic According to shippermd, this video is “An EXTREMELY RARE, 1976 film-short of a romantic Pas de Deux Ballet to Pachelbel’s Canon In D Major.” Produced by David Hahn and choreographed by William Carter, this film highlights the talents of dancers Cynthia Gregory and Ivan Nagy. About ‘In A Rehearsal Room’, Director…
Thomas Francis Dicksee: Jessica (1867)
Farewell, and if my fortune be not crossed, I have a father, you a daughter, lost. — Jessica, The Merchant of Venice Who Is Jessica? This painting shows Jessica, a character in Shakespeare’s play The Merchant of Venice, the daughter of a Jewish moneylender Shylock, who defies her father’s wishes and falls in love with…
J.E.H. MacDonald: Maple Boughs, Algoma
Best viewed At Sunnyside. WordPress Reader distorts format. Click For Enlarged Detail Slideshow best viewed At Sunnyside. Details Maple Boughs, Algoma J.E.H. MacDonald, Medium: oil on composite wood-pulp board Credit Line: The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario Dimensions Overall: 21.5 x 26.5 cm (8 7/16 x 10 7/16 in.) Source: Art Gallery…
Maria Sibylla Merian and Natural History
Who Is Maria Sibylla Merian? Artist, scientist, businesswoman, mother, and rule breaker extraordinaire – there is no doubt that Maria Sibylla Merian’s life story is filled with astonishing accomplishments. This German-born artist, botanist, naturalist, entomologist, and scientific illustrator lived during the 1700s in the Netherlands, where adherence to the guild system in Europe prevented women…
J. E. H. MacDonald: Falls, Montreal River (1920)
Click For Enlarged Detail Slideshow best viewed At Sunnyside Details Title: Falls, Montreal River Date Created: 1920 Physical Dimensions: w153 x h121.9 cm (overall) Painter: J.E.H. MacDonald Credit Line: Purchase, 1933 Type: Painting Rights: © 2013 Art Gallery of Ontario. Purchase, 1933, https://ago.ca/collection/object/2109 Medium: oil on canvas More Information The Art Gallery of Ontario…
William-Adolphe Bouguereau: Girl With a Pomegranate
Who Is William-Adolphe Bouguereau? William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825 –1905) was a French academic painter who favored realistic genre paintings using mythological themes, thus making modern interpretations of classical subjects. Bouguereau explained his work in 1895, “One has to seek Beauty and Truth, Sir!” As I always say to my pupils, you have to work to the…
Pieter Bruegel the Elder: The Harvesters (1565)
The First Modern Landscape The Harvesters, painted by Pieter Bruegel the Elder in 1565, represents “a watershed in the history of western art” at at time when “the religious pretext for landscape painting has been suppressed in favor of a new humanism, and the unidealized description of the local scene is based on natural observations.”…
Emily Carr: Who Is She?
Emily Carr: A Compelling Story I started this post intending only to feature one interesting and beautiful totem watercolor, but then I discovered the compelling story of the artist herself. As stated in summary by the Vancouver Art Gallery, “Her independence as a woman when domesticity was expected, her resolve to travel frequently and unaccompanied…
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