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  • Painting with Glass

    The Fish, 1890 by John La Farge, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. La Farge worked in stained glass creating many famous projects in public buildings, especially churches. He was also a painter in oil…

  • More Blue and White

    Blue and White, 1896 by Louise Jopling, Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight, England. During the Victorian period it became quite fashionable to collect blue and white porcelain from China, The Netherlands and eventually…

  • Blue and White Vases

    The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit, 1882 by John Singer Sargent, MFA Boston. Sargent’s portraits of children are among his most expressive. It must have been nice for him to work with subjects who…

  • Revival

    Andy Mouse, 1985 by Keith Haring © Keith Haring Foundation Haring was very popular from the mid 1980’s on. He was a real presence in NYC first through the drawings he used to do…

  • Colored Glass

    Still Life, watercolor by Michael J. Weber. Lovely realistic watercolor full of color and familiar objects.

  • A Favorite

    The Wilton Diptych, c. 1394 for King Richard the II, artist unknown,National Gallery, London. One of my favorite of the Madonna and Child images. The blues are so vivid especially against the gold. It…

  • Same Place, Different Day.

    Houses of Parliament, London, 1905 by Claude Monet, Musee Marmottan, Paris. Another of Monet’s views of Parliament. His goal was to paint the same thing in different light, which in turn would make a…

  • Foggy Impressions

    Houses of Parliament, London, Sun Breaking Through the Fog, 1904 by Claude Monet, Musee d’Orsay,Paris. Monet, like Turner recorded the London Parliament buildings but his was a study of the same building at different…

  • Recording Disaster

    The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, October 1834 by JWM Turner, Philadelphia Museum of Art. A huge event that the whole city turned out to see, Turner recorded the fire at…