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  • Many Talents

    Writing Cabinet, 1898-99 by C.R. Ashbee Charles Robert Ashbee was a talented cabinet maker as well as an architect and jewelry maker. He was a follower of the Arts & Crafts movement and even…

  • Spas – Nothing New

    The Great Bath, the Ancient Roman Baths, 1st Century A.D., Bath, England. Built as a combination of a traditional Roman bath and an homage to the water Goddess Sulis Minerva, elements of the ancient…

  • Down Boy

    White Terrier, 1991 by Jeff Koons, multiple collections. In 2000 Koons carried this image of the terrier to a huge scale when he created a giant floral version of the dog in Rockefeller Center.…

  • El Escribir en la Arena

    Portrait of the Duchess of Alba by Francisco Goya y Lucientes. Known as Goya, in his lifetime he painted over 500 works and almost 300 drawings and lithographs. As the Spanish court painter many…

  • Close Scrutiny

    Still Life by Giorgio Morandi, 1946. Throughout his career Morandi studied and painted still lifes of bottles in pale tones. His idea was to portray the pure simple beauty of the objects in pale…

  • Kitchen Still Life

    Soliloquy by William H. Bailey. The first time I saw one of William Bailey’s still life paintings I instantly fell in love with the combination of starkness and the items he featured.

  • Screen within a Screen

    Winter Party, Edo Period (18th – 19th Century) by Utagawa Toyoharu. The folding screens of Japanese art served as architectural features as well as decorative.

  • Intolerance

    Daughters of the Revolution by Grant Wood, Cincinnati Art Museum. Wood pokes fun at the prim and proper ladies and their intolerance. This is the only “satire” Wood owned up to, but many of…

  • Winter Weather

    January Thaw, Edge of Town, 1921 by Lawren S. Harris, National Gallery of Canada Harris was a member of the Canadian group of early twentieth century artists known as the Group of Seven. They…