“One of the pioneers of American modernism, Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) was a member of Alfred Stieglitz’s circle of progressive artists who made it their mission to create a new and distinctly American art. She was one of the few women in the group and, to her frustration, contemporary critics often highlighted the ability of her work to express “femaleness.” In 1922 she…
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Brummett Echohawk: An Island of Redbuds on the Cimarron
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Lilian Westcott Hale: ‘Floretta’
‘Floretta’, or ‘Portrait of Agnes Doggett’ A member of the Boston School of Impressionists, Hale focused on capturing the diffusion of natural light in domestic interior scenes and portraits of women in elaborate dress. Here the sitter is Agnes Doggett, a neighbor who frequently posed as a model for Hale—at twenty-five cents an hour, to…
Some Perspective: Mary’s Meals
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Thomas Wilmer Dewing: Poppies and Italian Mignotte
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FREDERICK CARL FRIESEKE: The Parrots (1910)
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William Merritt Chase: At the Seaside (1892)
At the Seaside Beginning in 1891 Chase taught at a summer art school in Shinnecock, Long Island. The following year, he and his family moved into their new summer home, Shinnecock Hall… Chase taught at the beach resort until 1902, conducting open-air classes for as many as a hundred students each summer. This work is…
Mary Cassatt: Lydia Crocheting in the Garden at Marly
“Cassatt and her family spent the summer of 1880 at Marly-le-Roi, about ten miles west of Paris. Ignoring the village’s historic landmarks in her art, Cassatt focused instead on the domestic environment. Here, she portrayed her elder sister, Lydia, fashionably dressed and insulated by a walled garden from any modern hurly-burly. Lydia is absorbed in…
Hugh Henry Breckenridge: Landscape (1908)
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Philip Leslie Hale: The Rose Tree Girl (1922)
Boston School of Impressionists Philip Leslie Hale was a leading member of the Boston School of Impressionists, along with Edmund Tarbell, Frank Weston Benson, William McGregor Paxton and Joseph De Camp, among others. Following studies at the Art Students League in New York, Hale traveled abroad to Paris in 1887 to study at the Académie…
Lilian Westcott Hale: American Impressionist
Who is Lilian Westcott Hale? Lilian Westcott Hale, daughter of a businessman and piano teacher, is remembered as one of America’s most successful Impressionist painters of the Boston School. She was born in 1881 in Hartford, Connecticut, and began her art education in 1900 at the School of Fine Arts in Boston. An important member…
Thierry de Brunhoff Plays Chopin
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Perspective and Perseverance
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” ― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America Hat Tip Thanks to Sister Renee at Lavish Mercy for introducing me to Tomoka Inoue in her post Persevering Faith Image Details Walter Launt Palmer, 1854 – 1932, SUNSET,…
Adolphe Borie: Edith Pettit
Click For Enlarged Detail Slideshow best viewed At Sunnyside Details Adolphe Borie (1877 – 1934) EDITH PETTIT signed Adolphe Borie (upper left) oil on canvas 16 by 20 inches, (40.6 by 50.8 cm)Source: Sotheby’s Link: http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2017/american-art-n09635/lot.94.html See More Adolphe Borie – Woodmere Art Museum Thanks for Visiting 🙂 ~Sunnyside
Mary Cassatt: The Tea
“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…
Childe Hassam: The Church at Gloucester
Childe Hassam,The Church at Gloucester, 1918
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Maurice Brazil Prendergast: Snow in April
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Maurice Brazil Prendergast: Central Park
“The love you liberate in your work is the only love you keep.” Maurice Prendergast Who Is Maurice Prendergast? Maurice Prendergast (1858 – 1924) was an American Post-Impressionist artist whose work was influenced by Fauvism, Impressionism, Pointillism, Post-Impressionism, and Realism. “Although working in a range of mediums including oils and monotypes (a print taken from a…
John Singer Sargent: Girl Reading by a Stream
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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…
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…
“The Small One”
A vintage radio story narrated by Bing Crosby, this twelve minute audio tells a delightful tale of a boy and his donkey called “The Small One”. Henry Ossawa Tanner: Flight Into Egypt (1923) “Flight into Egypt” depicts the Holy Family’s clandestine evasion of King Herod’s assassins (Matthew 2:12–14), Tanner’s favorite biblical story… The painting, which…
Remembering Tamara Natalie Madden
“The birds in my paintings are symbolic of my personal struggle with illness, and a representation of my survival and freedom from it. Tamara Natalie Madden (2015) See More Tamara Natalie Madden: An Artist Remembered At Sunnyside Update 2021 Don’t miss more online works at Tamara Natalie Madden. Thanks for Visiting 🙂 ~Sunnyside
Frederick Carl Frieseke: Girl in Blue Arranging Flowers (c.1915)
Frederick Carl Frieseke (1874 – 1939) was an American Impressionist painter who spent most of his life as an expatriate in France. An influential member of the Giverny art colony, his paintings often concentrated on various effects of dappled sunlight in scenes of female subjects. wikipedia Click For Enlarged Detail: Slideshow best viewed At…
The Four Freedoms – Freedom From Fear
What Are the Four Freedoms? The Four Freedoms were goals articulated by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt on Monday, January 6, 1941. In an address known as the Four Freedoms speech (technically the 1941 State of the Union address), he proposed four fundamental freedoms that people “everywhere in the world” ought to enjoy:…
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,…
Tamara Natalie Madden: An Artist Remembered
Tamara Natalie Madden (1975 –2017) was a Jamaican-born mother, mixed-media artist, and professor of art and visual culture at Spelman College in Atlanta. On November 4, 2017, she died at her home in Snellville, Georgia, only two weeks after being diagnosed with Stage 4 ovarian cancer. She was 42. “Out of Many, One People” Though Tamara…
Leon Kroll: Appletrees, Woodstock (1922)
Leon Kroll first visited Woodstock in the summer of 1906 to study at the Byrdcliffe art colony. In 1920, Kroll returned to Woodstock, as it was a popular destination for artist’s to spend the summer. In Kroll’s autobiography, A Spoken Memoir, he describes hosting dinners for fellow artists who would summer in Woodstock, including the…
Edward Hicks: Peaceable Kingdom (1833)
Note: Image galleries do not display properly in WordPress Reader. Best Viewed At Sunnyside. Isaiah 11:6-9 The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, and the calf and the lion and the fattened calf together; and a little child shall lead them. The cow and the…
The Tree of Life: 17th century
“This association with the Tree of Life in Revelations is reinforced by the curling grape vine wrapped around the trunk of the tree, which is symbolic of the Passion of Christ and the promise of eternal life.” TheMet This unique image of a miraculous tree bearing multiple species of fruits and vegetables…
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