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  • The Subject of Women

    Two Girls Fishing, 1912 by John Singer Sargent. Sargent frequently choses women as subjects and although he painted many on commission, he also painted them when the work he was doing was for himself.…

  • Provenance Not The Only Thing Unclear

    Number 1, 1950 by Jackson Pollock. There is a lot of controversy surrounding a recent collection of Jackson Pollock’s work. Read more about the paintings to be attributed to him. Provenance

  • Wayside Cross

    Joseph and Marie-Louise by Sarah Robertson. Sarah Robertson was a Canadian artist and member of the woman’s painting group known as the Beaver Hall Group . They were friends and contemporaries of the men’s…

  • A World of His Own Design

    The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke, 1855-64 by Richard Dadd. Richard Dadd was known as “Mad Dadd” he spent much of his life in an insane asylum after murdering his father whom he was convinced was…

  • “Calgon Take Me Away”

    Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David. David ushered in a return to classical ideals and away from the Rococo with this homage to the death of his friend. Marat was an outspoken leader of…

  • Arts & Crafts

    Covered Box by Lucia K. Mathews. The Arts & Crafts movement began in England in the late 19th century and became popular in the United States a few years later. The followers of the…

  • Its Not Gotten Better, Its Gotten Worse

    Just What Makes Today’s Homes, So Different, So Appealing? , 1956 by Richard Hamilton. Hamilton’s collage about overblown 1950’s consumerism also hailed the use of the word Pop in reference to art. He is…

  • Cow by Bacon

    Figure with Meat by Francis Bacon, 1954. Bacon deliberately subverted painting familiar traditions such as the portrait, in order to make his work even more disturbing . This work of a Pope with two…

  • Or Josie for Short

    Princesse Albert de Broglie, née Joséphine-Eléonore-Marie-Pauline de Galard de Brassac de Béarn, 1853 by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Ingres portraits are some of the most amazing studies of people and how we adorn ourselves. His skill…