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Tag Archives: Painting
1891: Beach
Georges Lemmen: The Beach at Heist (1891)
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1927: Divine Law
Beginning in 1902, Violet Oakley spent twenty-five years painting the murals that adorn the Pennsylvania state capitol building in Harrisburg. The image above is a study for her “Divine Law” mural in the Supreme Court, part of a series illustrating … Continue reading
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Tagged 1920's, 20th Century, Angels, Art, Law, Painting, Violet Oakley, Women
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1898: Spring Flood
Stanislav Zhukovsky: Spring Flood (1898)
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1936: Coal Tipple
Louise Pershing: Bituminous Coal Tipple (1936)
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Tagged 1930's, 20th Century, Art, Industry, Louise Pershing, Mines, Painting, USA, Women
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1628: Still Life with Books and a Violin
Jan Davidszoon de Heem: Still Life with Books and a Violin (1628)
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Tagged 17th Century, Art, Books, Jan Davidszoon de Heem, Music, Netherlands, Painting
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1857: Niagara
Frederic Edwin Church: Niagara (1857)
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Tagged 1850's, 19th Century, Art, Frederic Edwin Church, Landscapes, Nature, Painting, USA, Water
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1941: Degenerate Art
Emil Nolde: Meer bei Abenddämmerung [Sea at Dusk] An anti-Semite who believed in the cultural superiority of “Germanic” art and supported the Nazi Party beginning in the 1920’s, Emil Nolde was surprised when his own paintings were targeted in the … Continue reading
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1937: Forest
Emily Carr: Forest Interior in Shafts of Light (c. 1935-1937)
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Tagged 1930's, 20th Century, Art, Canada, Emily Carr, Painting, Trees, Women
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1909: The Forest
One of Frederick Cayley Robinson’s set designs for The Blue Bird, Maurice Maeterlinck’s “Fairy Play” about Tyltyl and Mytyl, the children of a poor woodcutter, who are sent out by the Fairy Bérylune to search for the Blue Bird of … Continue reading
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Tagged 1900's, 20th Century, Art, Belgium, Drama, Fairies, Frederick Cayley Robinson, Great Britain, Maurice Maeterlinck, Painting, Trees
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1865: The Gloomy Path
Elihu Vedder: The Gloomy Path (1865)
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