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  • Silent Treatment

    In the Car by Roy Lichtenstein, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh. A member of the Pop Art movement of the 1960’s Lichtenstein found influence in the American comic book which he transferred…

  • Poet Party

    The Thirty-Six Master Poets, 1828 by Saki Hōitsu. Created during the Edo period, this work is intentionally irreverent while at the same time paying tribute to revered poets of the 7th – 11th centuries.

  • Grand Beauty

    Grand Canyon, 1919 by Gustave Baumann, various collections. Baumann visited the Taos New Mexico art community early in his career while still studying art and returned at the end of his career to retire…

  • Down to the Bare Wood

    The Floor Scrapers, 1875 by Gustave Caillebotte. Caillebotte liked to portray everyday scenes like these workers removing wax from floors. He liked to portray everyday people going about their business in a realistic way.

  • Far Out

    Love, 1968 by Peter Max. Poster reprinted in 1993. This poster by Peter Max was so ground breaking and struck such a chord at the time that it changed the way art was viewed…

  • Eros

    Psyche et l’amour, 1817 by Baron Francois Gerard, Louvre, Paris. A popular subject throughout the 19th century, Gerard version of the story of Cupid and Psyche almost portrays the figures as secondary to the…

  • Pretty Flowers

    Two Sisters (On the Terrace), 1881 by Pierre Auguste Renoir, The Art Institute of Chicago. Renoir began his career painting on porcelain and the pretty subjects he chose lend themselves well to that type…

  • Across the Reflecting Pool

    Abraham Lincoln from the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C., The memorial dedicated in 1922. Sculpture of Lincoln by Daniel Chester French.

  • Controversy

    The Peacock Room, 1877 by James McNeill Whistler, Freer Gallery, Smithsonian. Whistler, in his usual flamboyant and arrogant manner, took his decoration of this London dining room to such an extreme, he angered and…