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Tag Archives: Art
1897: Steelworks
Lionel Walden: Steelworks, Cardiff, at Night (1897)
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Tagged 1890's, 19th Century, Art, Factories, Great Britain, Lionel Walden, Painting, Trains, USA, Wales
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1927: The Pat, Pat, Pat of the Sleepy Sheep
From Katherine Morris Lester’s Great Pictures and Their Stories, Book Three (1927): Picture Study is rapidly becoming an important factor in our public school education. “Nearly every progressive city,” says the Bureau of Education, Washington, D.C., “is making use of … Continue reading
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Tagged 1920's, 19th Century, 20th Century, Animals, Anton Mauve, Art, Books, Children, Dogs, Katherine Morris Lester, Labor, Mammals, Netherlands, Painting, Sheep, USA, Women
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2008: Between Life and Death
Gonzalo Lebrija: Entre La Vida y La Muerte (2008)
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Tagged 2000's, 21st Century, Art, Cars, Gonzalo Lebrija, Mexico, Photography, Water
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1923: Ivory, Apes and Peacocks
John McKirdy Duncan: Ivory, Apes and Peacocks (also known as The Queen of Sheba) (1923)
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Tagged 1920's, 20th Century, Animals, Apes, Art, Birds, Camels, Christianity, Cows, Deer, Elephants, Great Britain, John McKirdy Duncan, Mammals, Monkeys, Painting, Peacocks, Religion, Scotland
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2013: War Hero
Jorge Otero: Cáscara [shell] (from the series War Hero) (2013)
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Tagged 2010's, 21st Century, Art, Cuba, Jorge Otero, Photography, War
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1890: Low Tide
Thomas Alexander Harrison: Low Tide, Brittany (c. 1890)
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Tagged 1890's, 19th Century, Art, France, Painting, Seascapes, Thomas Alexander Harrison, USA
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3rd Century BC: Dog
Dog Vessel: Colima, Mexico (200 B.C. – A.D. 500) (source)
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Tagged 3rd Century BC, 6th Century, Animals, Art, Ceramics, Dogs, Mammals, Mexico
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1732: The Morals of Chess
Although Benjamin Franklin likely composed his essay “The Morals of Chess” as early as 1732, it was first published in 1786, during the height of interest surrounding Wolfgang von Kempelen’s mechanical chess-playing Turk; Franklin himself had lost to the machine … Continue reading
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Tagged 1860's, 18th Century, 19th Century, Art, Automata, Benjamin Franklin, Caroline Howe, Chess, Digital Art, Diplomacy, Edward Harrison May, France, Great Britain, Negotiations, Painting, Richard Howe, Thomas Jefferson, USA, William Temple Franklin, Wolfgang von Kempelen
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1885: Wave
Thomas Alexander Harrison: Wave (1885) (source)
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Tagged 1880's, 19th Century, Art, France, Painting, Seascapes, Thomas Alexander Harrison, USA
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