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  • Nuts

    Gathering Paradise by Sandy Skoglund Installation art creates an environment within a museum or gallery that brings the viewer into the artwork. It began in the 1970’s and reached it’s zenith in the 1980’s,…

  • Raisin Bread

    Still Life with Strawberries, no date by Levi Prentice (Amerian 1851-1935), Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. Prentice is known for painting still lifes, often with fruit. He worked as a carpenter and an art…

  • Support

    Oriental Poppies, 1927 by Georgia O’Keeffe, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum.If someone asks, buy a poppy, but why a poppy? – Happy Memorial Day Weekend.

  • Tweet

    White-eye, Manuscript Mughal Period. The Mughal empire a line of Indian Muslim emperors who ruled from 1526 to 1828. The most famous work to come out of this period is the Taj Mahal. .

  • Quiet 2

    Winter Landscape, probably 1811 by Casper David Friedrich. There is a man sitting down against the rocks and praying, he has abandoned his crutches as he approached the shrine. The serenity of the scene…

  • Quiet

    Monastery Graveyard in the Snow, 1819 by Casper David Friedrich. Friedrich’s ethereal landscapes have an uncanny calmness. People have very personal reactions to his art. For example, if you are religious, you might concentrate…

  • Fruit Selling Gone Wrong

    Frontispiece for Goblin Market, 1933 by Arthur Rackham. Rackham’s illustrations for Christina Rossetti’s poem are full of the detail that make his artwork popular with young and old, alike.

  • Fall Preview

    Autumn, 1999 by Alex Katz, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. Katz was influenced by Jackson Pollock early in his career but in the 1960’s his work became more realistic and representational. He concentrated on…

  • At Home with Nature

    Fallingwater, 1936-38 by Frank Lloyd Wright, Bear Run, PA. Western Pennsylvania Conservancy. Considered Wright’s masterpiece, Fallingwater is found deep in the PA woods and was built as a retreat for the Kaufman family of…