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  • Speckled Shells

    Still Life (date unknown) by Balthasar van der Ast (c.1593-1656). The Dutch still life painters concentrated on getting their work to look as close to the real thing as they possibly could. Their backgrounds…

  • Jeremy’s Place

    Waterlilies, 1903 by Beatrix Potter, ©Beatrix Potter Trust, U.K. Most people have heard of Peter Rabbit and Tom Kitten and their creator Beatrix Potter, but they are not as aware of her botanical studies…

  • Winter Wonderland

    Love of Winter, 1914 by George Wesley Bellows, The Art Institute of Chicago. A member of the Ashcan School and student of Robert Henri, Bellows began studying art at Ohio State.

  • Flag

    Flag, 1954-55 by Jasper Johns, The Museum of Modern Art, New York /VAGA. Johns representative artwork was a contrast to the work of the Abstract Expressionists before him. His re-worked images of everyday objects…

  • Waiting

    Mariana by John Everett Millais, Private Collection. Mariana is the main character in a poem by Tennyson that deals with a woman “trapped” in her life. She is surrounded in a perfect Victorian setting…

  • In Honor of Labor

    Detroit Industry, South Wall detail, 1932-33 by Diego Rivera, The Detroit Institute of Arts. Rivera was at the height of his popularity when he was commissioned to create two large murals representing the auto…

  • Fruits of Their Labor

    The Strawberry Thief by Morris & Co., 1883 drawn by Philip Webb. As William Morris and his family tried to grow strawberries at their home, Kelmscott, thrushes would climb under the barriers they erected…

  • Drawing What You Know

    Sechs Kissen (Six Pillows), 1493 by Albrecht Dürer, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Dürer created this drawing as a study of shading by using cross-hatching, but it is also a study in drawing drapery.

  • What Can You Do?

    House of Dread, Newfoundland, 1915 by Rockwell Kent, Plattsburgh State University of New York. “Upon a bleak and lofty cliff’s edge, land’s end, stands a house; against its corner and facing seawards leans a…