Christina’s World, 1948 by Andrew Wyeth, Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Wyeth’s painting of a young woman who, unable to walk, often crawled around the house in Maine where she lived and where Wyeth stayed and which he painted many times.
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Sun Soak
People in the Sun by Edward Hopper.
Hopper is famous for the loneliness in his paintings and even though this is a group of people, the chairs are staggered so each person is alone as they enjoy the sun.
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Lakeside Protection
Fort Mackinac, Michigan, 1872 by Seth Eastman.
Located on Mackinac Island, Fort Mackinac was founded by the British in 1870. It remained an active fort until 1895 and went back and forth between the Americans and the British for years.
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Glow Up
Red and Gold, 1915 by Frank Weston Benson.
One of the leaders in the American Impressionist style, Benson had a very long and prosperous career as a leader in the American Impressionist movement.
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We are the 80’s
Men in the Cities series, 1984 by Robert Longo.
The Men in the Cities series first brought Robert Longo to the public’s attention when it was featured in movies, television and magazines in the 1980’s.
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Kindred Spirits
The Flatiron, 1920 by Alfred Stieglitz.
Stieglitz and Georgia O’Keeffe were married in 1924. By this time his career as an innovative photographer had been established and hers as a painter, was beginning.
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Lone Tree
Oak Tree Sunset City by Ansel Adams,© The Ansel Adams Gallery.
Ansel Adams is best known for his black and white photographs of sweeping landscapes, however he also did portraits and smaller still lifes.
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Influences
Aboriginal, 1984 by Jean-Michel Basquiat.
One of the popular artists of the 1980’s who rose to prominence and was considered the star of the group that included Julian Schnabel, Keith Haring, Robert Longo, and Mark Kostabi (among others). Basquait died at age 28 of a drug overdose. Recently, his artwork has become highly desirable and this has brought the sale prices for his work to new heights.
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Paradise Revisited
Island Feast, 1940 published 1953 by Eugene Savage, S.S. Lurline, Matson Line.
Savage created a set of nine murals for the Matson ship line (which sailed to Hawaii) in 1940 but they were not used until the early 1950’s because the ships had been requisitioned for service in WWII. Savage received awards for his artwork which was so popular among the tourists it was reproduced in a set of prints and as Aloha attire.
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Sand in Your Shoes
Children Playing on the Beach, 1884 by Mary Cassatt.
Mary Cassatt is well known for her paintings of children where she presents the children naturally as opposed to being idealized or as mini adults.
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