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Holy Cows
Nebamun’s cattle, fragment of a scene ,Thebes, Egypt Late 18th Dynasty, around 1350 BC. The Egyptians considered cows an essential element of life and survival. As the once fertile area of Northern Africa became…
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Setting the Scene
Dancers in the Wings by Edgar Degas, 1876-78, Pastel Degas is well known for his superior ability to draw and to fade into the background so that he could capture a scene without influencing…
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Before Cubism
Portrait Olga dans un Fauteuil by Pablo Picasso, Picasso Museum Olga in an armchair. This early portrait is of his first wife Olga whom he married in 1918 and separated from in 1927, but…
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Spot On
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of Grand Jatte by Georges Seurat, Art Institute of Chicago. Seurat did preparatory drawings everyday for six months getting ready to paint this picture of people relaxing on a…
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Sketch
Monkey (study for La Grande Jatte), 1884 by Georges Seurat, The Art Institute of Chicago. Seurat made hundreds of studies for his painting La Grande Jatte, some just small pencil sketches like this, some…
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Monkey Business
Monkeys in a Kitchen by David Teniers the Younger, The Hermitage Teniers was a prolific painter and also the court curator for Archduke Leopold in Brussels during the 17th century. Of the over 2000…
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Recreation
Past Times by Kerry James Marshall, 1997. This work was recently bought by Sean Combs (P.Diddy) for his personal collection. Marshall who is from Chicago and was classically trained as an artist, has gained…
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Mad Architecture
The Old Pennsylvania Station, NYC, 1910-1963, McKim, Mead, and White Architects. When the original Beaux-Arts station was torn down in 1963 there was such an uproar from the citizens of NYC that the New…
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Mad Monsters
Matthias Grunewald, detail, Isenheim Altarpiece,1510-15, These fantastic monsters are part of one of the most amazing pieces of art to come out of the 16th century. There are three different views or openings and…
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