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  • Dream of Flowers

    Violette Heymann by Odilon Redon, 1910, The Cleveland Museum of Art Symbolism is a genre that often is over-looked for Surrealism or Impressionism. It has roots in literature, the author Baudelaireis credited with its…

  • You Know the Work, Now Meet the Woman

    Mary Blair conceptual drawing for Disney’s Alice in Wonderland. Mary Blair was one of the most important artists to work at Disney and yet most know her work, but not her name. She brought…

  • Favorite Sons

    Spring in Town by Grant Wood, 1942 Two of my favorite Iowa artists, Grant Wood and William Bailey. Both of them capture brilliantly the straight-forward simplicity Iowa stands for, to me. Simplicity, with under-layers…

  • Follow the Seal

    Saint Bride by John Duncan, 1913, National Gallery of Scotland. Two angels transporting the Saint Bride to Bethlehem to witness the Nativity. Scenes of the life of Christ are sewn into the garments of…

  • Spring Flowers

    Young Woman with Peonies by Jean-Frederic Bazille, National Gallery of Art Washington. Bazille was friendly with many of the Impressionists such as Monet and Renoir. His life and a promising career were cut short…

  • Before Social Distancing

    Beach Scene by Martha Walter Another in my on-going series of artists I discover on Pinterest. Martha Walter (1875-1976) was a student of William Merritt Chase at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and…

  • Object as Communication

    Suprematism, 1915 by Kasimir Malevich, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Malevich is the Father of the Suprematist movement which led to Abstraction. He considered his ultimate goal to be communication through “non-object” representation, culminating in a…

  • For Liz

    Drowning Girl by Roy Lichtenstein, 1963, MOMA, NYC The controversy about Lichtenstein’s work stems from his “lifting” images from 1950’s and 60’s comic books, enlarging them, and rendering them in paint. This part of…

  • Strutting

    Child Wearing a Red Scarf by Edouard Vuillard, c. 1891, The National Gallery of Art (US) This is one of my favorite Vuillard pieces. It is not very big, but I just love the…