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: USA
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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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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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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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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 and watercolors, and a writer.
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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 would have probably been less vain than the adults (although I am sure a few of them were looking over his shoulder).
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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 in chalk on the black matte surfaces of empty subway advertising panels. These drawings brought him recognition and gallery shows. He and Jean-Michel Basquiat, his friend have had a return to popularity recently.
This work in a portrait of Andy Warhol.
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Feminist Art or Just Art?
The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago, 1974-79, Brooklyn Museum
There are two exhibitions at the National Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington DC right now that were organized by the Brooklyn Museum. They are a show featuring the work of artist Judy Chicago, often label as a Feminist, but naturally as labels go, she is that and so much more.
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Reflection
Symphony in White No.2: Little White Girl by James Abbot McNeill Whistler, Tate Gallery, London.
The Japanese theme in Whistler’s art can be seen in the decorations around the figure of the woman. Around the mid 19th century Japanese influences began to appear in Europe and became quite fashionable.
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