Two Girls Fishing, 1912 by John Singer Sargent.
Sargent frequently choses women as subjects and although he painted many on commission, he also painted them when the work he was doing was for himself. He seems to empower them through the beauty with which he portrays them.
Number 1, 1950 by Jackson Pollock.
There is a lot of controversy surrounding a recent collection of Jackson Pollock’s work. Read more about the paintings to be attributed to him. Provenance
Joseph and Marie-Louise by Sarah Robertson.
Sarah Robertson was a Canadian artist and member of the woman’s painting group known as the Beaver Hall Group . They were friends and contemporaries of the men’s group “The Seven” but never achieved the same level of recognition. Wayside crosses.
The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke, 1855-64 by Richard Dadd.
Richard Dadd was known as “Mad Dadd” he spent much of his life in an insane asylum after murdering his father whom he was convinced was the devil. His intricate paintings took him years to complete.
Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David.
David ushered in a return to classical ideals and away from the Rococo with this homage to the death of his friend. Marat was an outspoken leader of the French Revolution and was murdered in his bath after receiving a letter of admission into his home for the murderer. David’s stark scene conveys the shock and sadness he felt after learning Maret had been killed.
Covered Box by Lucia K. Mathews.
The Arts & Crafts movement began in England in the late 19th century and became popular in the United States a few years later. The followers of the movement sought-out the hand-made production methods of the past, as a reaction to the industrial age. California had their own take on the Arts & Crafts philosophy which manifested itself in the architecture of Greene & Greene and the work of many small artisans like Mathews.
Just What Makes Today’s Homes, So Different, So Appealing? , 1956 by Richard Hamilton.
Hamilton’s collage about overblown 1950’s consumerism also hailed the use of the word Pop in reference to art. He is still an innovator, creating his new art with computers.
Figure with Meat by Francis Bacon, 1954.
Bacon deliberately subverted painting familiar traditions such as the portrait, in order to make his work even more disturbing . This work of a Pope with two sides of beef is a deliberate homage to the court artist Velazquez.
Princesse Albert de Broglie, née Joséphine-Eléonore-Marie-Pauline de Galard de Brassac de Béarn, 1853 by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres.
Ingres portraits are some of the most amazing studies of people and how we adorn ourselves. His skill at rendering the faces and capturing his sitters makes him among the finest portraitists ever.
Mares and Foals in a River Landscape, 1763-8 by George Stubbs.
Stubbs spent hours studying the musculature and skeletal structures of the animals he painted in order so that his portrayals would be as life-like as possible.
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