Tag Archives: Painting

1943: Workers and Paintings

Posted on March 3, 2019 by corvusfugit

Honoré Sharrer: Workers and Paintings (1943) I can’t identify all the paintings in this painting. Leave a comment if you can fill in the blanks: Hugo Gellert : Free Man’s Duties (No 4) (1943) Jean-François … Continue reading →

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1740: Thangka Depicting Vajrabhairava

Posted on February 15, 2019 by corvusfugit

Thangka Depicting Vajrabhairava (1740) This thangka, a type of Tibetan painting that uses ground mineral pigment on cotton or silk, shows Yamantaka Vajrabhairava, a deity in the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism. He is shown with nine heads (the largest … Continue reading →

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1923: Plum Tree

Posted on February 13, 2019 by corvusfugit

Theodore Earl Butler: Autumn Plum Tree in the Artists’ Garden, Giverny, 1923

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1986: Lower Manhattan

Posted on January 23, 2019 by corvusfugit

Yvonne Jacquette: A Glimpse of Lower Manhattan (Night) (1986)

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1859: Morning Over New York

Posted on January 22, 2019 by corvusfugit

Charles Herbert Moore: Morning Over New York (c. 1859)

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1920: General Confusion

Posted on January 21, 2019 by corvusfugit

Stanislaw Witkiewicz: General Confusion (1920)

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1963: Pastoral

Posted on December 29, 2018 by corvusfugit

Richard Mayhew: Pastoral (c. 1963)

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1773: An Extraordinary Animal

Posted on December 20, 2018 by corvusfugit

In his Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, James Boswell famously recounts his travels with Samuel Johnson in the highlands and western islands of Scotland. The year was 1773; Johnson was in his mid-sixties. In an 1885 edition of … Continue reading →

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1842: Snowstorm

Posted on December 4, 2018 by corvusfugit

J. M. W. Turner: Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth (c 1842)

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2018: Gan Ainm

Posted on December 4, 2018 by corvusfugit

Helen O’Toole: Gan Ainm (2016-18); gan ainm is Irish for “without a name,” untitled.

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