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  • What are Your Neighbors Up To?

    The Little Bay, Port Vendres by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. In the last four years of his life Mackintosh left Scotland for France. Although he painted some beautiful watercolors of the area he is not…

  • Floral Shapes

    Tiffany Flower Form Vases. This type of opalescent glass is known as Favrile.

  • Biting Cold

    February, 1940 by Grant Wood. Wood came to appreciate lithography as a medium late in his career. Many of his lithographic works were offered through the Associated American Artists project that offered the artistic…

  • Bathed in Fabric

    The Bather of Valpincon by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres. Ingres’ skill at portraying drapery and textiles was the best of the 19th Century French Classical artists. He was inspired by the Italian Renaissance painter…

  • Form Following Function

    Japanese Rabbit Netsuke, Late 18th early 19th century. The most popular pronunciation is “net-ski”, while the actual Japanese is closer to “netskeh,” they were used weigh down the end of the sash or obi…

  • Butterfly

    Acacias, c.1880 by Albert Moore. Moore was influenced by the Elgin Marbles (Parthenon statuary which had recently arrived in London at the British Museum – where they remain and are the source of much…

  • Narrow Escape

    Watson and the Shark, 1777 by John Singleton Copley. Copley’s historical painting tells a story about Brook Watson who would survive the attack and go on to become Lord Mayor of London.

  • Creating New From Old

    Return of the Sun, 1986 by Odd Nerdrum. Nerdrum is an artist whose influence lies in classic artists like Rembrandt, who prefers to mix his own paints and stretch his own canvases. He draws…

  • Venus Redux

    Venus, c.1984 by Andy Warhol, various collections. Warhol was one of the most successful artists to come out of the Pop movement in America. His use of everyday images gave people something to relate…