Although considered part of the Harlem Renaissance movement, Motley never lived in Harlem. He was born in New Orleans and moved to Chicago where he studied art the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. This painting from early in his career shows his grandmother Emily Motley (a former slave) quietly mending socks surrounded by mementos and references to her life.
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Discovered on Pinterest
Marguerite Kelsey by Meredith Frampton, 1928, Tate, London.Meredith Frampton was the son of a sculptor who created very detailed and finely finished paintings of a very modern style for the early 20th century. Some of his work, even veers toward the surreal in style. Frampton used a model for this work and dressed her in the latest austere fashions from Paris, making the work all the more modern in tone. -
Herculaneum – The Redheaded Step Child
Pompeii A.D. 79 by Alfred Elmore, 1878, Yale Center for British ArtAn exhibition entitled The Last Days of Pompeii: Decadence, Apocalypse, Resurrection opened on February 24th and runs through July 7, 2013 at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The exhibition features works inspired by the loss of the cities in 79 AD and their re-discovery in the early 18th century. It includes works by a wise range of artists from Piranesi and his detailed drawings of the site, to Rothko’s abstract expressionist take on the murals from the Villa of the Mysteries. -
Western Art
This weekend a new art venue opens on Cleveland’s near west side. The Transformer Station is a project of the Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell Foundation and a collaboration with The Cleveland Museum of Art that strives to being contemporary art to Cleveland’s oft neglected west side. The opening exhibition is called Bridging Cleveland Photographs by Vaughn Wascovich also, Light of Day Photographs from the Collection of Fred and Laura Bidwell. -
Generations
The Fighting Gillises
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Six generations of soldiers in the same family. This was a
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Happy Veteran’s Day!
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Seattle Art Glass 2012
Seattle Art Glass 2012, a set on Flickr.
I recently visited The Seattle area where we saw some amazing art glass.
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Happy Birthday, Ingres
Madame Moitessier, 1856 by Jacques-Auguste-Dominque Ingres, National Gallery of Art, London.
True to the fashion of his time, Ingres was more interested in painting historic scenes than doing portraits, but also true, portraits are an artist’s bread and butter. Mme. Moitessier’s husband asked Ingres to paint his wife’s portrait and Ingres refused, upon meeting her however, he was intrigued and agreed to paint her. Notice how the use of the mirror behind her, gives us two portraits in one.
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Shout-out to Modernism
Solar Do-(It-Yourself) Nothing Toy. After Charles Eames by Edgar Olaineta, 2012,from the Factory Direct: Pittsburgh exhibition Warhol Museum.The Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh is hosting an exhibition of contemporary art called Factory Direct: Pittsburgh, now through September 9, 2012. -
Happy Birthday Gustave
Fruit Displayed on a Stand by Gustave Caillebotte, 1881-2, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.Caillebotte existed on the fringes of the Impressionist group, as he was both a benefactor and a member of the group. He was a painter himself, but lived as a lawyer, solider, and engineer. He did not adhere closely to the painting by light and loose brush strokes of the Impressionists and his work belies his realistic-style training, however, he allowed enough of the looser, less studied style of the Impressionists to enter his work, that it was given a lightness, that more realistic work lacks.Even in death he supported the Impressionists, leaving his vast collection to the French Government on the condition that it be displayed, not stored away. The artists and their work had not yet been embraced by the French people, and the government and they rejected that condition, but ended up accepting a portion of the work which they did display, making it the first time the artists of the group were displayed in a government exhibition. -
Comments on the Walls
Both of these graffiti pieces have been attributed to the artist known as “Banksy” his work had been absent from London for a while, but it is thought that he has returned in order to make some statements about the Olympics which begin in London next week.
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