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Recording Impressions
Roses on a Tray, c.1861 by John La Farge, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh. La Farge began his career as a painter, but became most famous for this work in stained glass. Second…
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Looking Down
Downtown Pittsburgh Skyscrapers from Mount Washington, 1996 by Aaronel de Roy Gruber, Collection of the Artist. A Pittsburgh artist who created paintings, sculpture and photos. Her work can be found in many museum collections.…
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Tea Time
Ingram Street Tea Rooms by Charles Rennie Mackintosh et al. Here is an example of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s architectural and Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh’s design work. His wife worked with him on his interior designs.…
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Admiration
Cuckoo Flower, 1910 by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasglow, Scotland. Mackintosh’s interest in plants began at a young age and continued throughout his life. Although he is most famous as…
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Variations on a Theme
White Center, 1950 by Mark Rothko. A member of the New York School that emerged in the mid 20th century, Mark Rothko has come to be regarded as one of America’s greatest artists. He…
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Which End is Up?
Dominant Curve by Vasily Kandinsky. Kandinsky was one of the most influential Abstract artists of the 20th century. He was a teacher of both law and later art, teaching for a number of years…
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What is Love?
April Love, 1855-56 by Arthur Hughes. Hughes accompanied this painting with a poem by Tennyson called The Miller’s Daughter. I love the vibrant purple of the dress, it just pops out of the painting.
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Floating Palace
The Chariot of Aurora (detail), 1935 by Jean Dunand. This large panel was part of a design for the ocean liner Normandie one of the grandest and most famous ships ever built.
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Multi-dimensional
Sun, Sea, and Tide, 1989 by Red Grooms, The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO. Red Grooms uses all different kinds of media in his work, which is often two or three-dimensional.…
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