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  • Windows

    Habitat Group for a Shooting Gallery by Joseph Cornell, Des Moines Art Center Cornell assembled fascinating groups of found objects. He liked to juxtapose different objects and his love of surrealism comes through in…

  • Flying Jewels

    Hummingbirds and Orchids, c. 1880 by Martin Johnson Heade, The Detroit Institute of Art. Heade’s renderings of orchids and hummingbirds (he did quite a few) make the flowers and the birds look more like…

  • Sadness

    The Descent from the Cross c.1435/8 by Rogier van der Weyden, Museo del Prado, Madrid. The sadness and suffering on the faces of the figures in this scene show that van der Weyden was…

  • New Gown

    Tea Party, c. 1880 by Kate Greenaway. Kate Greenaway was one of the most popular children’s book illustrators of the 19th century. Her idealized children were just what her Victorian audience wanted.

  • Nimble Fingers

    Gee’s Bend Quilters Collective, Gee’s Bend Alabama The ladies of Gee’s Bend have been making quilts for more than six generations. Largely using scraps of old material, they have created some of the most…

  • Winter Memories

    Winter Landscape with Skaters, c. 1608 by Hendrick Avercamp, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. A winter scene in a town with people playing on the ice and working. He liked to paint lively scenes with people all…

  • Same Name

    Starry Night, c. 1893, by Edvard Munch, The J. Paul Getty Museum. Munch is the Symbolist painter best known for The Scream. He was from Norway but traveled and studied in Paris and admired…

  • Surprise

    The Doni Tondo by Michelangelo Buonarroti, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. This painting made fools of some of 20th Century art historians. For a long time, they went on and on about how Michelangelo preferred…

  • Stark

    Nighthawks, 1942 by Edward Hopper, The Art Institute of Chicago. One of the most popular paintings in the AIC’s collection people are intrigued by the familiar scene and the loneliness Hopper captures.