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  • Anatomy of a Horse

    Mares and Foals in a River Landscape, 1763-8 by George Stubbs. Stubbs spent hours studying the musculature and skeletal structures of the animals he painted in order so that his portrayals would be as…

  • Toilette

    Venus with a Mirror, c. 1555 by Titian During the Renaissance paintings of nude women were often titled “Venus” as in excuse to portray nudes by claiming the image is a portrayal of the…

  • Bonding Through Art

    Arthur Frank Mathews, Spring Dance c. 1917. Mathews and his wife Lucia were followers of the Arts and Crafts movement as it manifested in California. His training as both an artist and an architect…

  • It has been a year….

    I restarted this blog a year ago when lockdown started. I am thankful to be getting my second shot in two weeks, that my husband was able to work from home, that neither of…

  • Protecting Nature

    Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, 1872 by Thomas Moran, Yellowstone National Park Museum. Moran was another artist working in the same vein as Bierstadt. His paintings of the American West were even more idealized.…

  • Long Trip

    The Travelling Companions by Augustus Leopold Egg. Egg was an actor and his dramatic training shows in his artwork. He painted subjects from literature. He was a close friend of Charles Dickens and performed…

  • Joy of Spring

    Spring, 1895 byLawrence Alma Tadema, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu CA In a land of clear colours and stories, In a region of shadowless hours, Where Earth has a garment of glories And…

  • Manifest Destiny 2

    Niagra Falls, by Albert Bierstadt. Bierstadt painted panoramic, idealized scenes of the United States. His main subjects were places in the the American West which was being touted as the promised land and his…

  • Tucked In

    Cat on a Balustrade:Summer, 1896 by Theophile A. Steinlen. Steinlen loved cats and used them as subjects for a great many of his posters. He began as an apprentice in a textile factory and…