Tag Archives: Painting

1904: Sunset

Martin Johnson Heade: Sunset Over the Marshes (1890-1904)

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1881: Tintagel

William Trost Richards: Tintagel (1881)

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2004: Diane Abbott MP

Stuart Pearson Wright: Diane Abbott MP (2004); in 1987, Diane Abbott became the first black woman elected to the British Parliament. See a video of her talking about this portrait here.

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2001: Crying Landscape

Yang Jiechang: Crying Landscape: Three Gorges Dam (2002)

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1935: Waves

Constantin Westchiloff: Rolling Waves. The painting is undated; Westchiloff immigrated to the United States in 1935 and lived in New York City

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1880: Ironworkers

Thomas Anshutz: The Ironworkers’ Noontime (1880)

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1913: Sunset

Félix Vallotton: Sunset (1913)

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1830: The Boy After this Excited Much Wonder

From John Fanning Watson’s Annals of Philadelphia, being a collection of memoirs, anecdotes, and incidents of the city and its inhabitants, from the days of the Pilgrim founders (1830): The good people of Caledonia [Scotland] have so long and exclusively … Continue reading

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1942: Convoy

Norman Wilkinson: The “Ohio” in the Malta Convoy (1942)

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1918: Sunset

Félix Vallotton: Sunset at Grace, Orange and Violet Sky (1918)

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