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.
Category: art history
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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 School.This work was done in sepia.
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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 the British Arts & Crafts movement.
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Classic Beauty
Daybreak by Maxfield Parrish, 1922, Private Collection.
Parrish’s father was an artist and he was encouraged by his family to pursue a career as an artist. He had a good deal of success as an artist, but also as illustrator who added life and color to many books. This is one of his most famous pieces and is still available as a print today.
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Bearer of Glad Tidings
Archangel Gabriel, 13th Century AD, Notre Dame Cathedral, Reims,France.
Notre Dame at Reims is the first example of the High Gothic style of architecture. It is highly decorated with carving, sculpture and stained glass. It sustained a great deal of damage after the French Revolution and during WWII.
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Awwww!
Kitty and Girl on Beach, c. 1960’s by Margaret Keane, glued to cardboard in basements.
Popular in the 1960’s big eyed puppies, kitties and children could be found tacked to bedroom walls and in this case on puzzles from Woolworth. These works were painted by Margaret Keane whose husband originally claimed to be the artist. It eventually came down to a “paint off” between the two. The story is captured in the movie Big Eyes.
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Hey, I didn’t post a Dali yet.
The Hallucinogenic Toreador, 1969-70 by Salvador Dali, the Salvador Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, FL.
Dali conceived this work in an art supply store. It is rich with color and imagery. It features the famous ancient statue of Venus now housed in the Louvre.
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Personalizing
Salisbury Cathedral From the Bishop’s Grounds 1826 by John Constable, The Frick Collection.
This version also includes a figure of the Bishop pointing out the cathedral’s spire and the young lady with the parasol is assumed to be one of his daughters.
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Bucolic
Salisbury Cathedral from The River, 1820 by John Constable, National Gallery, London.
Constable painted this work for his friend the Dr. John Fisher, the Bishop of Salisbury and his nephew Archdeacon John Fisher after the Archdeacon was granted the house in the foreground for life.
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More Painting with Glass
Garden Landscape and Fountain, 1905-1915 by Louis Comfort Tiffany, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Tiffany’s father began the jewelry business that has become on of the world’s most famous and Louis Comfort Tiffany could have settled into the family business, but instead he chose to create a legacy of his own and some of the most widely collected and prized art glass in the world.
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