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Tag Archives: Art
1864: Blue Morpho
Martin Johnson Heade: Blue Morpho Butterfly (c. 1864)
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1935: Red Butte
Maynard Dixon: Red Butte with Mountain Men (1935)
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1953: Painter / Spy
Tomás Harris: Mallorca Series No.9 (1953) Tomás Harris trained at the Slade School of Fine Art and the British Academy in Rome before deciding to follow in his wealthy father’s footsteps and become an art dealer in London. Early in … Continue reading
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1938: Meer im Abendlicht
Emil Nolde: Meer im Abendlicht [Sea in the Evening Light] (c. 1938-1945)
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1815: Wretched Forebodings
Francisco Goya: Tristes Presentimientos de lo que ha de Acontecer [Wretched Forebodings of Things to Come] (1814-1815)
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2016: Adrift
Sam Yeats: Adrift (2016)
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1842: Viennese
Rudolf von Alt: Solar Eclipse, Vienna (1842)
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1921: New Planet
Konstantin Yuon: Новая планета [New Planet] (1921)
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1733: Vision / Eclipse
Cosmas Damian Asam: Vision of St. Benedict (1735) “The canvas shows an elderly saint who, confronted by a solar eclipse, seems to experience a seizure—as well as enlightenment—at the moment when light erupts from the celestial sphere, as described in … Continue reading
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1938: Death Loop
Tullio Crali: Upside Down Loop (Death Loop) (1938)
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