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Another Look
Landscape: A Man Looking at a Waterfall, Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian. The first time someone told me to look at Chinese paintings up and down instead of across, it made…
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Ideal California
A Bigger Splash, 1967 by David Hockney, Tate Gallery, London. Hockney was interested in capturing a splash of water that only lasts for mere seconds and depicting it on canvas. Throughout his career he…
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Romance of the Sea
Captain Kidd, 1907 by Howard Pyle. Pyle was better known as an illustrator and this comes from the Book of Pirates, which he also wrote.
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Starkist
The Mermaid, 1910 by Howard Pyle, The Delaware Museum of Art. This was the painting Pyle was working on when he sailed for Italy to study mural painting by studying the Italian Renaissance masters.…
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Final Exam
The Architect’s Dream, 1840 by Thomas Cole, The Toledo Museum of Art. On my final for intro to art history, I would always include this work which the students had not seen before and…
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All Signs Point to Nativity
The New-born, c. 1640 by Georges de la Tour, Musee des Beaux Arts, Rennes. Often artists would mask religious scenes by setting them in the present and leaving out all of the traditional “signs”…
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Unexpected News
The Annunciation, c.1441-3 by Fra Angelico, Museo di San Marco, Florence. Calm pervades the scene as Mary is informed by the Archangel Gabriel that she is carrying the child of God. St. Peter the…
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Breaking it Down
Composition 8, 1914 by Piet Mondrian, The Guggenheim Museum, NYC. This is Mondrian’s interpretation of a tree after seeing the cubist work of Braque and Picasso. He eventually took it to an even more…
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Women’s Weeds
Dress 3 by Karen LaMonte, 2001. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. LaMonte honors women, dresses and the art of glass in her work. You see the body beneath the garment, but the garment…
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