Distinctively Israeli Reuven Rubin (1893-1974) is the eighth of 13 children born to a Romanian Jewish Hasidic family in Galaţi. Rubin studies art at Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem and Ecole des Beaux Arts and Academie Colarossi in Paris. “Although born in Romania and trained in art in Paris and Romania, Reuven Rubin … is…
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Christmas Cards: Season’s Greetings from Edwardian New Zealand
HistorianRuby: An Historian’s Miscellany I’m delighted to share with you these colourful Christmas cards from the antipodes! This brief selection dates from 1900 – 1919 and the originals are stored in various repositories in New Zealand. New Zealand Christmas postcard circa 1905 – 1910 A parrot instead of robin redbreast? A parrot is not usually associated…
Wilhelm Wachtel: The King of Israel Viewing Jerusalem…
Who Is Wilhelm Wachtel? According to Leo Baeck Institute Art and Objects: Wilhelm Wachtel was a Jewish-Polish realist painter and illustrator. Born in Lviv,[Ukraine], he studied at the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts under Leon Wyczółkowski and Leopold Löffler, and then the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under Nikolaus Gysisa. He traveled to Vienna,…
Sister From The Order Of The Pre-Raphaelites
Lately, I have been delving into the lives of some of the talented women surrounding the Pre-Raphaelite movement, both artists and models, so I am delighted to re-blog this poem by Gwendrina. Published at The Peaceful Pub, “Sister From The Order Of The Pre-Raphaelites” is a poem about “a fictitious member of the group based…
Emily Carr: War Canoes, Alert Bay (1912)
The Audain Art Museum’s Permanent Collection of nearly 200 works of art is a visual journey through the history of art from coastal British Columbia. Spanning from the 18th century to present day, the Collection contains one of the world’s finest collections of Northwest Coast First Nations masks; a large collection of works by…
Emily Carr: Forest Glade
“I sat staring, staring, staring – half lost, learning a new language, or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.” -Emily Carr See Full Biography: Emily Carr: Who Is She?
Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta: Girls at a Window (c.1875)
Click for enlarged detail: Did you spot the binoculars? 😎 Details Girls at a Window ca. 1875 Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta (Spanish, Rome 1841–1920 Versailles) European Paintings Medium: Oil on canvas Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Bequest of Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, 1887 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436928 Thanks for Reading! 🙂 The…
Jean Brusselmans: Seringen [Lilacs], 1934
Via: Les Illusions perdues #Jean Brusselmans #Flemish expressionism #flower painting #lilacs #lilas #modern art #20th century Belgian art Click For Enlarged Image Jean Brusselmans (Belgian, 1884-1953), Seringen [Lilacs], 1934. Oil on canvas, 85 x 60 cm., Source: https://herzogtum-sachsen-weissenfels.tumblr.com/image/179720043974 Thanks for Visiting! 🙂 The End
Chaim Soutine: View of Cagnes (c.1925)
“Someone Has Killed Soutine!” Chaim Soutine once horrified his neighbours in Paris by keeping an animal carcass in his studio to model for his painting called, not surprisingly, Carcass of Beef. The stench drove them to send for the police, whom Soutine promptly lectured on the relative importance of art over hygiene. There’s a story…
Reuven Rubin: Autumn Landscape, Peekskill, New York (1928)
Visit to New York According to Christie’s, in 1928 Reuven Rubin visited Adolph Stone, a Romanian friend who had a country home in Peekskill, New York. Rubin produced this painting of that home. Click For Enlarged Detail Slideshow best viewed At Sunnyside Thanks for Visiting 🙂 ~Sunnyside
Sea Dreams – Judith Bergerson, JackPine Studio
Sea Dreams 8″x 8″ collage on illustration board. See more weekly collages via Sea Dreams — Judith Bergerson / JackPine Studio
Kyoto Botanical Garden — rlmcdermott
What kind of trees were they that broke the color– all tall and green and dancing in the slow sunlight of an April afternoon? Women in blue kimonos stood beneath the delicate branches snapping pictures digital and bright. Children played, young mother’s strolled, stooped old men finished with their lives sat on stone benches. An…
Caspar David Friedrich: Sunburst in the Riesengebirge
‘…thus it is a great merit, maybe the greatest thing the artist is capable of, when he touches the spirit and arouses thoughts, feelings and emotions in the beholder, even if these are not his own.’Caspar David Friedrich “The rocky tumbling foreground symbolises the transience of earthly life (the solitary hut a reminder of the smallness of…
Van Gogh & Japan: Part 2
‘Japonaiserie’ Begins The Convention of Kanagawa put an end to the 200-year-old Japanese foreign policy of Seclusion. and opened trade between Japan and the West. Artists like Manet, Degas and Monet, followed by Van Gogh, began to collect the cheap colour wood-block prints called ukiyo-e prints. Vincent and his brother Theo dealt in these prints,…
Pools – A Poem by Joe Barca — Vita Brevis
Pools Submitted by Joe Barca I am but water. The puddle of last night’s shower. I live for an hour or two. Until the sunshine absorbs me. I am the ocean for children in Wellington boots. For earthworms. And for the descent of errant swallows. I am pavement’s liquid memory. I……… Continue via Pools…
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…
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Gut Staberhof III (1913)
The Truth, … and Nothing But the Truth I’ll be honest. Many of Ernst Kirchner’s works are….. not my favorites. (There. I said it.) This painting, however, caught my eye immediately because of the colors. A pink street? What is that all about? I looked more closely. The trees are full of texture and movement,…
Jean-François Millet: Calling Home the Cattle (late 1850s)
This painting brings back fond memories of my grandparents’ small farm and the people who shaped my childhood. If I shut my eyes and unplug the electronics, I can feel the utter peace of the twilight hillside at the foot of the Great Smokey Mountains. It is nearing sunset, and Grandaddy brings the cows up…
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…
Nikolai Bogdanov-Belsky: Boys in a Birch Forest
Click for Enlarged Detail: Details Nikolai Petrovich Bogdanov-Belsky 1868-1945 BOYS IN A BIRCH FOREST signed in Cyrillic l.l. oil on canvas 81.5 by 104.5cm, 32 by 41in. Source: Sotheby’s Thanks for Visiting! 🙂 The End
Nikolai Bogdanov-Belsky: The Schoolgirl Reading by Lamplight
Successful Exhibition 1917-1918 Nikolai Bogdanov-Belsky showed his paintings, including The Schoolgirl Reading by Lamplight, at the 46th Itinerant Exhibition in 1917-1918, which was a time of great social and political upheaval. According to Sotheby’s catalogue, the success was surprising: ‘We assumed that during the revolutionary events people would be indifferent to art and that we would struggle to sell anything. Fortunately, we were…
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: At the Moulin Rouge -The Dance (1890)
On a Crowded Dance Hall, Paris, 1890 At the Moulin Rouge, the Dance is an oil-on-canvas painted by French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in 1890, the second of a number of graphic paintings by Toulouse-Lautrec depicting the Moulin Rouge cabaret. Built in Paris in 1889, the cabaret portrays two dancers dancing the can-can in the middle…
Edward Bannister: Boston Street Scene (1898-99)
Who Is Edward Mitchell Bannister? Edward Mitchell Bannister (1828 –1901) was a Black Canadian–American Tonalist painter. Like other Tonalists, his style and predominantly pastoral subject matter were drawn from his admiration for Millet and the French Barbizon School. In fact, Bannister’s work often reflects the composition, mood, and influences of French Barbizon painters including Jean-Baptiste-Camille…
Albert Bierstadt: On the Saco
This is my favorite Albert Bierstadt painting, and I have searched high and low for more information (and a better image). I assume it must be privately owned (?). If you have any details, please let me know in the comments below.
Van Gogh and Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 7 in D major
Hold on to your hats….wow 😉 Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 7 in D major, Op. 10, No. 3, Paavali Jumppanen, piano, Via herzogtum-sachsen-weissenfels Click to View Enlarged Image Slideshow best viewed At Sunnyside Sources Wikipedia contributors, “Butterflies (Van Gogh series),” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Butterflies_(Van_Gogh_series)&oldid=842227646 (accessed October 18, 2018). Jesse Chan, Vincent…
Édouard Vuillard: Garden at Vaucresson (1923)
According to Colta Ives (2018), “The enormous appeal of gardens in the early twentieth century, especially to women of means, found frequent expression in the work of Édouard Vuillard, ” (C. Ives, p. 94). This painting was begun in 1920 at Vaucresson, a residential suburb west of Paris, where Vuillard’s friends Lucy and Josse (Jos) Hessel…
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…
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