Crinum erubescens and Amaryllis superba by Priscilla Susan Bury nee Falkner Bury Aquatint printed in color, finished by hand from Priscilla Susan Falkner Bury (1793-1869)
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
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Merry Masked Men
Gift Rapt by Charley Harper Mid 20th century artist and illustrator
Charley Harper’s work can be found in everything from posters, calendars, and books of all kinds. He felt an affinity toward nature and animals and both figured prominently in his work.
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Christmas Streets
Stockbridge at Christmas by Norman Rockwell, Norman Rockwell Museum of Vermont.
Rockwell is known for his images of holidays and Americana, this is one of his rarer landscapes.
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He Never Fails to Amaze
Portrait of Lady Helen Vincent, Viscountess of d’Abernon by John Singer Sargent, 1904, The Birmingham Museum of Art, AL
Another beautiful portrait by Sargent.
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Let it Snow
Snow at Louveciennes, 1878 by Alfred Sisley, Musee d’Orsay, Paris.
Sisley was strongly influenced by Monet and also tried to capture light against the landscape.
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Flanks
Little Yellow Horses, 1912 by Franz Marc.
Der Blaue Reiter (the blue rider) was a group of Expressionist artists, most famously Marc and Kandinsky who chose the name because Marc liked horses, Kandinsky liked riders and they both liked blue.
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Disappointed?
The Blue Gown, 1917 by Frederick Carl Frieseke, The Detroit Institute of Arts.
An American Impressionist painter who studied with the Europeans. Frieseke’s work is full of color and light. What are your thoughts? I think she is all ready for a date that did not show.
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Amazing Detail
Yomeimon Gate by Hasui Kawase. The gate is from the early 17th century.
Yomeimon Gate is a a very famous site in Japan at Nikko. It is considered one of Japan’s most beautiful buildings. The gate has over 500 carvings and to look at them all can fill the better part of a day. The gate is part of the Toshogu Shrine, which also houses a famous sculpture of a sleeping cat.
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Speckled Shells
Still Life (date unknown) by Balthasar van der Ast (c.1593-1656).
The Dutch still life painters concentrated on getting their work to look as close to the real thing as they possibly could. Their backgrounds are often dark and plain in order to feature the objects they are painting.
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Jeremy’s Place
Waterlilies, 1903 by Beatrix Potter, ©Beatrix Potter Trust, U.K.
Most people have heard of Peter Rabbit and Tom Kitten and their creator Beatrix Potter, but they are not as aware of her botanical studies of nature and her accomplished watercolor paintings.
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