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  • Ties with the Devil

    Devil Dog, 1990 by William Wegman, various collections. Wegman has been collaborating with his dogs for over thirty years to create videos, photographs, movies for adults and children. His children’s books cast his dogs…

  • Hankie

    Weeping Woman, 1937 by Pablo Picasso, Tate Gallery, London. Picasso did a series of “Weeping Women” where their faces and emotions are broken-up by grief and the cubist style of creating an image out…

  • Yum

    Cake Counter by Wayne Thiebaud. Thiebaud came to prominence during the Pop Art years of the 1950’s & 1960’s. His work has remained an important force in American art.

  • Gothic Here Too

    Stone City Iowa by Grant Wood, Joslyn Art Museum Stone City is near Wood’s childhood home Anamosa. They hold an art festival in Stone City every summer in honor of one of the state’s…

  • Family Ties

    Candy Cigarette, 1989 by Sally Mann from Immediate Family. Sally Mann creates beautiful photographs using a large-scale camera and old processes. Her work is a studied glimpse at her life, nature, and the lives…

  • Whose god?

    Medusa or Gorgon, 1st Century A.D., From the Temple of Sulis Minerva at the Roman Bath in Bath, England. This representation of the Gorgon Medusa was part of the pediment decoration from the Temple…

  • Turn Around

    Betty, 1988 by Gerhard Richter, St. Louis Art Museum (copyright Gerhard Richter). What looks to be a photograph is actually a painting of the artist’s daughter. It cannot be considered a true portrait when…

  • A Heady Aroma

    A Lilac Year, 1951 by Gustav Baumann, color woodblock print, assorted collections. Baumann arrived from Germany to the US in 1891 when he was 10 and eventually did his art training at the Art…

  • Rest

    Nonchaloir ,1911 by John Singer Sargent, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. After 1907 Sargent grew tired of painting so many society portraits for money. he chose to concentrate instead on outdoor scenes and…