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  • Interpretations of Justice

    Justice, c. 1970 by Erte A more modern take on Lady Justice.

  • You Are What You Are

    Le chat (The Cat at the Window), 1857-58 by Jean Francois Millet. Millet’s illustration of “The Cat Who Became a Woman,” a fable by the seventeenth-century French writer Jean de La Fontaine. According to…

  • Alone on Stage

    L’etoile [La danseuse sur la scene] (The Star [Dancer on Stage]) 1878, by Edgar Degas. Degas did a large series of paintings and sculptures of ballet dancers, all levels of dancers and on the…

  • Model and Muse

    Iris Tree by Augustus John. Tree was a poet and artist’s model probably better known in a famous portrait by Amedeo Modigliani. John had a very robust career being one of the most well…

  • Careful Reading

    The Precious Book , c.1920 by Gwen John. John studied under James McNeill Whistler in Paris and at the Slade School in London where she developed her agitated style. Her brother Augustus John was…

  • Nice vase

    Vase of Flowers, c. 1900-16 by Odilon Redon, MoMA. Although primarily known as a Symbolist artist Redon created a number of floral still life paintings in his career. They all have a stark quality…

  • Bird Land

    Mystery of the Missing Migrants by Charley Harper, various galleries. Charley Harper is best known for his book illustrations from the mid 20th century.

  • Painting History

    Into Bondage, 1936 by Aaron Douglas, Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington D.C. This work is part of a mural Douglas created that marks the history of the Black people in North America from slavery…

  • Family Portraits

    Portraits of Edouard and Marie-Louise Pailleron by John Singer Sargent. Sargent was one of the primer portrait painters of the 19th century. His work brought out the very best in his sitters and therefore…