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  • Spying

    Cat and Spider, c.1868 – 1912 by Oide Toko, The Metropolitan Museum. From the Meiji period which began during the end of the feudal period and when Japan was exposed to the modern world.…

  • A Will to Make Art

    Three Black Cats by Maud Lewis, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. Canada’s best known Folk Artist is Maud Lewis.The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia even has her small house which she decorated with her…

  • Charming

    Halloween, 1955 by Anna Mary Robertson “Grandma Moses,” Copyright © 1984 Grandma Moses Properties Co. , The Bennington Museum, Bennington VT. The Folk Artist known as Grandma Moses was 80 years old when she…

  • Soaked

    Madame Matisse, 1983 by Helen Frankenthaler, University Art Museum, University at Albany State University of New York Frankenthaler was strongly influenced by Pollock, but took his methodology down a different road when she used…

  • Horizon

    Surrealist Landscape1990 – 1996 by George Morrison, The Minneapolis Institute of Art. Morrison was born a Chippewa Native American who was then trained in the European/American style at the Art Students League in New…

  • Smooches

    The Kiss by Gustav Klimt. The most famous artist of the Art Nouveau period is Klimt who sense of decoration and design made his artwork rich and complicated. The two figures seem to emerge…

  • Wyeth Redux

    Portrait of a Pig, 1970 by James Wyeth, The Brandywine River Museum. Yet another artist in the Wyeth family. James is well known for his portraits although he creates paintings from many different genres.

  • Sepia

    The Abbey in the Oakwood, 1809-10 by Casper David Friedrich, Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin. Friedrich’s remarkable landscapes in the Romantic style influenced the great landscape artists of the Hudson River School and the Rocky Mountain…

  • Repeat

    Owl Wallpaper, c. 1898 by Charles F.A. Voysey. Voysey began designing wallpaper and fabric and later moved on to architecture, as well. His simple style appealed to tastes that were becoming increasingly influenced by…