At Sunnyside – Where Truth and Beauty Meet

Sophie Kauer: In The Bleak Midwinter

In the Bleak Midwinter by Christina Rossetti In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan Earth stood hard as iron Water like a stone Snow had fallen Snow on snow on snow In the bleak midwinter Long, long ago Angels and Arc Angels May have traveled there Cherubim and Seraphim Thronged the air But only…

Anthony van Dyck: An Andalusian Horse

“While he was still in his teens, Anthony van Dyck swiftly worked his way up the ranks in Peter Paul Rubens’s studio in Antwerp. Rubens would go on to describe him as ‘the best of my pupils’… aware of the younger man’s love of horses, Rubens gifted one of the finest steeds from his stable…

Henri Fantin-Latour: Roses et capucines

“According to Pierre Courthion, “Not since the great Flemish masters has any artist been more capable of endowing flower painting with so much brilliance, so many shadings and so vivid a use of color than Fantin-Latour (P. Courthion, “Fantin-Latour, Painter of Flowers” in Henri Fantin-Latour, exh. cat., Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York, 1966). The extraordinary…

Léon-Augustin Lhermitte: La Famille

“By the time Lhermitte took up the harvesting themes and country market scenes that would make his name, the wide-spread antagonism that had greeted Jean-François Millet’s paintings of working peasants thirty years earlier had largely disappeared, dissipated by an improving rural economy and by a political climate that deliberately celebrated the peasant as a mainstay…

Su Yeon Kim Plays Mozart

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George Morren and Tessarini’s Flute Sonatas

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Jean-Marie Reignier: Tailpiece for Bonvin Album

“In 1866 William T. Walters commissioned a deluxe album from French art dealer Georges Petit (1856–1920) to house his growing collection of watercolors by the French watercolorist Léon Bonvin (1834-1866). …For his album, Walters commissioned a decorative frontispiece and tailpiece from the flower painter Jean-Marie Reignier; these were completed by early 1867. Reignier’s tailpiece in…

Mozart: Flute and Harp Concerto K299

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Vuillard, Viotti, and Violins

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John William Waterhouse: The Soul of the Rose

“Waterhouse’s title is loosely derived from Chaucer’s dream poem, Romaunt of the Rose, itself adapted from the 13th-century French romance: Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Lorris. The narrator embarks on a pilgrimage with the god of love, who leads him to a rose symbolizing perfect love. The poem had been treated by Waterhouse’s…

Monteverdi, Vol. 2

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Hauser: Mahler’s Symphony #5

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John Atkinson Grimshaw: A Golden Idyll

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Chu Teh-Chun: Tender Memories

“The pastel blue background in Tendres Souvenirs (Tender Memories) resembles the fleeting past, and the various overlapping brushstrokes placed on top are reminiscent of the artist’s happy and carefree experiences. Various shades of blue are used to denote the big and small events in his life, and the blackish brown colour blocks at the bottom…

Bach, Bouguereau, and Hilary Hahn

“L’Attente is a late expression of the subject matter that appealed to Bouguereau throughout his long artistic career. The painting is a fantasie, or a theme inspired by Antiquity.”L’Attente is a late expression of the subject matter that appealed to Bouguereau throughout his long artistic career. The painting is a fantasie, or a theme inspired…

Camille Pissarro: Chemin de l’Écluse, Saint-Ouen-l’Aumône

“Located some twenty-five miles northwest of Paris, Pontoise was built on a hilltop, with the river Oise passing through it, elements which made it a highly picturesque environment in which to paint en plein-air. The town’s economy included agriculture as well as industry, and offered Pissarro a wide range of subjects, from crowded semi-urban genre…

Hauser, Hubell, and Girl in a Green Dress

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Franz Schubert: Trout Quintet

“Chu Teh-Chun once said that “Kandinsky’s creation of abstract art drew inspiration from Cézanne theories on painting, which in turn came from musical expression”. Elan dans l’inspiration perfectly encapsulates this impression, where the musicality of Chu-Teh Chun’s art is on fully display. As a classical music enthusiast, Chu has always been deeply entranced by music,…

Evgeny Kissin Plays Chopin

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Zhang Daqian: Clear Autumn in Wu Gorge

For Zhang Daqian, the 1930s was a period of rigorous learning from the styles of classical masters, initiating his creative “revival” of ancient art. Clear Autumn in Wu Gorge is representative of Zhang’s early landscape paintings and belongs to a series of works he painted in the same theme and period. Wu Gorge is one…

Bianka, Brasilier, and Couperin

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Cedric Morris: Plants and the Schnake Pot

“In the winter months at Benton End when the days were shorter and the temperature dropped, Morris would paint indoors using his vast collection of plants and pots to compose imaginative arrangements which he would then translate onto canvas. The present work, painted in November 1969, is one such work and demonstrates how even in…

Kings Return: A Change Is Gonna Come

“The present work was originally donated by Henri Le Sidaner to a tombola to raise funds for the establishment of a memorial to his friend, the Belgian painter at the forefront of Luminism Emile Claus. The two met when Claus rented a studio in Paris after 1889 and was introduced to Le Sidaner, prompting a…

Week 35: Inhale, by Sunnyside

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Debussy’s Clair de Lune VII

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Henri Le Sidaner: Le canal, soleil, Gisors

“Henri Le Sidaner was attracted to oblique and mysterious light, never the harshness of noon. He preferred to paint l’heure bleue of Mediterranean dusk or his own garden at Giverny with sunlight fretted by the leaves of a vine. This painting depicts Gisors, the picturesque, historic capital of the Norman Vexin, about twenty-two miles south-west…

Playing For Change: Stand By Me

“O’Keeffe’s flower paintings of the 1920s are among her most innovative and original contributions to early 20th century American art and to the ongoing discourse of modern art later in the century. As Elizabeth Glassman observes, “Her art does not represent an age gone by, but rather, the brilliance of an American painter whose intuitions…

Paul Serusier: Le Battage

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Karla Bonoff: The Water Is Wide

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Lang Lang Plays Beethoven

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