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  • Birds of a Feather

    Roseate Spoonbill by John James Audubon from Birds of America. Audubon was trained with famous Neo-Classicist Jacques-Louis David and used his skills to capture the and document the birds of America a scientific and…

  • What They Remember

    Chateaubriand, 1809 by Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson. Chateaubriand was an important French historical figure and writer whose English chef would make him more famous than his exploits.

  • For a Valentine

    My Name is Jim Dine by Jim Dine. Dine is known for his pop art using bright colors and bold images. His “Heart” series was executed in the early 1980’s.

  • Not What it Seems

    Mr. Hulings’ Picture Rack, 1888 by William Harnett, Private Collection. Harnett was a master of the Trompe L’Oeil (trick the eye) painting. The Greeks and Romans painted in this style but the term was…

  • Suffering

    Kitaj was born in Cleveland, but lives and works mostly in England. This chaotic piece portrays the gates at Auschwitz and references T.S. Eliot’s poem The Waste Land.

  • Banned

    Self-portrait with Model, c. 1910 by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Kunsthalle, Hamburg. Kirchner’s self-portrait is the main focus of this work (who could ignore that robe). His work was branded “degenerate” by the Nazi’s.

  • Artist Model

    October, 1877 by James Tissot, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Another example of a Tissot model Kathleen Newton, the same one (I believe) as here. Often artists used the same models, even the same…

  • Woman in Blue Dress

    Louise de Broglie, The Countesse d’Haussonville by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, The Frick Collection Ingres was a French 19th Century painter known for his realism. I am particularly fond of his fabrics – so realistic and…

  • Puppies and Pears

    Still Life with Three Puppies, 1888 by Paul Gauguin, the Museum of Modern Art, NYC. This was painted by Gauguin the same year he lived with van Gogh.