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• Post #4358153

  In the blazing heat of August, let’s look at the color orange: by Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986), Red Canna, 1924, oil on canvas, 29 by 18 inches (73.7 by 45.7 cm), photo: Sotheby’s. #art #womenartists #womanartist A quote from the artist: “A flower is relatively small. Everyone has many associations with a flower… still, in a way, nobody really sees a flower, really, it is so small….So I said to myself, I’ll paint what I see, but I’ll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking time...

• Post #4228258

  Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890), The Prison Courtyard (after Gustave Doré), 1890, oil on canvas, 31.4x25.1 inches (80x64 cm), Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. #arthistory #painting #oilpainting #vangogh #prison From HSE University, Moscow: “Vincent van Gogh painted The Prison Courtyard in 1890, inspired by an engraving by French illustrator Gustave Doré. In February 1890, Van Gogh was staying at the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum, where he had no opportunity to paint from life… When examining Van Gogh...

• Post #4013057

  Your art history post for today: by Thomas Cole (1801-1848), “The Course of Empire: Destruction,” 1836, oil on canvas, 39 1/4 × 63 1/2 inches (99.7 × 161.3 cm), collection of The New York Historical. #arthistory #painting #oilpainting From the museum: ‘On August 30, 1836 the artist wrote to his friend and fellow artist Asher B. Durand "I have been engaged in Sacking & Burning a city ever since I saw you & am well nigh tired of such horrid work." The vainglorious city that Cole...

• Post #3913205

  Your art history post for today: by African-American artist Charles White (1918–1979), “General Moses and Sojourner Truth,” 1954, wolff carbon pencil and white chalk over traces of graphite pencil, 27 7/8 in x 38 inches, Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, ©The Charles White Archives. #arthistory #blackart #blackartist #BlackHistory #drawing From the museum: ‘Charles White’s 1954 drawing General Moses and Sojourner Truth, represents two famed African American women who fo...

• Post #3813343

  By the artist known as Banksy, “Flag Man,“ 2026, fiberglass or resin, Waterloo Place, London. Given its placement near monuments to Britain’s past Imperialism, it seems a comment on the blindness of unquestioning nationalism. Could fit in a lot of places, including Washington DC. #art #protestart #protest #statue #banksy

• Post #3791282

  A just for fun sketch for today of Batgirl. Based on a photo provided by the subject on the Museum by Sktchy app. Drawn freehand on my iPad Pro using the SketchClub app. About three hours of work total. #digitalart #ipadart #artapp #drawingapp #sketchclubapp

• Post #3648895

  By Aaron Douglas (1899-1979), "Harriet Tubman," 1931, oil on canvas, 54 × 72" (137.1 X 182.9 cm), Bennett College, Greensboro, N.C. #arthistory #blackhistory #blackhistory #blackart #blackartist #art #painting #oilpainting From the Camden Civil Rights Project: 'Douglas uses modernist imagery to depict the slave era heroine, Harriet Tubman, who was responsible for leading more than three hundred slaves to freedom by way of the Underground Railroad. Douglas wrote that he portra...

• Post #3411985

  By Ephrem Solomon, born in 1983 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: “Earth Series: 20,” woodcut and mixed media, 85 x 97 cm (33.5 x 38.25 inches), Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery. #art #africa #africanart #ethiopia #ethiopianart #printmaking From Artsy: ‘Ephrem Solomon draws on woodcutting’s history as a medium tied to 20th-century politics. His works feature figures or objects—often domestic ones such as empty chairs—rendered in solid fields of color and employed as allegories for contemporary life in Eth...

• Post #2651951

  By Chinese artist Huang Yongyu (1924-2023), Plum Blossoms in Snow, scroll, mounted and framed, ink and colour on paper, 68.5 x 67.5 cm, photo: Christie’s Hong Kong, May 31, 2023. #arthistory #asianartist #chineseart #chineseartist A quote from the artist: "I have achieved little in my lifetime. I didn't receive much formal education. But I dared not live a life without an aim or in laziness."

• Post #2611470

  A new month, a new art history theme. Since April showers bring May flowers, this month I will focus on flowers. And since today is May Day (International Workers' Day), here is today’s post: by Walter Crane, A Garland for May Day, 1895, relief print, the digital collection Political Posters, Labadie Collection, University of Michigan. #ArtHistory #mayday #labor #labour From Wikipedia: ‘The 1st of May, or first Monday in May, is a national public holiday in many countries, in most case...

• Post #2611469

  Your art history post for today: by African-American artist Charles Ethan Porter (1847–1923), Floral Still Life, ca. 1880-1890, oil on canvas, 16 1/8 × 20 3/8 × 13/16 inches (41 × 51.8 × 2 cm), Detroit Institute of Arts. #ArtHistory #blackart #blackartists #blackartist #BlackHistory Information on the artist from the National Gallery of Art: ‘In 1881 Porter decided to travel abroad to continue his development as an artist… Less than two years into his time in France, Porter’s money ran out. H...

• Post #2611467

  By Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986), Two Calla Lilies on Pink, 1928, oil on canvas, 40 × 30 inches (101.6 × 76.2 cm), Philadelphia Museum of Art. #arthistory #womanartist #womenartists From the museum: ‘Georgia O’Keeffe once remarked, “What is my experience of the flower if not color?” This painting of two calla lilies is an extraordinary example of her floral compositions, made of sweeping, broad waves of subtly blended hues. The white petals, highlighted in green, are arranged against a...

• Post #2611466

  By Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), Flower Garden, oil on canvas, 43 1/4 by 43 1/4 inches (110 by 110cm), photo: Sotheby’s London, 01 March 2017. This work is considered one of Klimt’s finest landscape paintings. #arthistory #painting #oilpainting #art From the catalogue note: “Painted in 1907 during the golden period of Klimt’s career, Bauerngarten is a masterpiece of Viennese fin-de-siècle art. This remarkable landscape is rooted in the natural world yet simultaneously reaches towards the symbolic,...

• Post #2611465

  By Lorraine Schneider (1925-1972), Primer ("War is not healthy for children and other living things"), 1966, etched print, 2 x 2 inches, photo: Bonhams New York, 4 June 2014. #arthistory #printmaking #womanartist #womenartists #war The lot essay: ‘ONE OF THE MOST ICONIC ANTI-WAR IMAGES TO EMERGE FROM THE VIETNAM ERA. The simple image of a sunflower with the equally simple but profoundly powerful statement "War is not healthy for children and other living things,&...

• Post #2611464

  Your art history post for today: by Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890), Irises, 1890, oil on canvas, 29 x 36 1/4 inches (73.7 x 92.1 cm), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. #arthistory #vangogh #painting #oilpainting From the museum: ‘In May 1890, just before he checked himself out of the asylum at Saint-Rémy, Van Gogh painted four exuberant bouquets of spring flowers, the only still lifes of any ambition he had undertaken during his yearlong stay: two of irises, two of roses, in contrasting c...

• Post #2611463

  By Kehinde Wiley (born 1977), “Shantavia Beale II,” 2012, oil on canvas, 60x48 inches, private collection. #blackart #blackartist #blackartists #oilpainting #painting From the Saint Louis Art Museum: “Kehinde Wiley’s vibrant paintings actively engage with the traditions of European art. In his work, Wiley replaces historical depictions of white figures with images of contemporary African Americans, Africans, and people of the African diaspora. His work is widely recognized for calling attention...

• Post #2611462

  Your art history post for today is actually photography history: by Kazumasa Ogawa (Japanese, 1860-1929), “Iris Kæmpferi,” 1896, colored collotype, 27.9 × 20.8 cm (11 × 8 3/16 in.), The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. #arthistory #photography #PhotographyHistory From Public Domain Review: ‘Ogawa Kazumasa, a Japanese photographer, printer, and publisher known for his pioneering work in photomechanical printing and photography in the Meiji era. Studying photography from the age of fifteen, Og...

• Post #2611461

  Saw my first examples of Lemon Beebalm, also known as Purple Horsemint, yesterday on the banks of the creek near the library. Shot with my iPhone 15 Pro Max. Edited in Distressed FX app. #photography #iphonography #distresssedfx

• Post #2611460

  Fruit and Flowers, c. 1630, Orsola Maddalena Caccia (Italian, Moncalvo 1596–1676 Moncalvo), on canvas, 30 × 39 in., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. #arthistory #womanartist #womenartists From Art Herstory: “Like many of the earliest known women painters of the Renaissance, Orsola Maddalena Caccia (1596–1676) was a nun. She was born Theodora Caccia; she adopted the name Orsola Maddalena when she took her vows as an Ursuline sister. Later she, along with her five sisters, joined a conve...

• Post #2611459

  A recent sketch of mine. Drawn freehand on my iPad Pro using the Sketch Club app. Based on a photo posted by the subject on the Museum by Sktchy app. #digitalart #ipadart #artapp #drawingapp

• Post #2611458

  Your art history post for today: by Odilon Redon (French, 1840–1916), portrait of Violette Heymann, 1910, pastel on gray wove paper, 72 x 92 cm (28 3/8 x 36 1/4 in.), The Cleveland Museum of Art. #arthistory #pastel #art A quote from the artist: “I cannot say what my sources have been. I love nature in its forms; I love it in the smallest blade of grass, the humble flower, the tree, the land and the rocks, up to the majestic mountain tops. All things for their character in themselves, more tha...

• Post #2611457

  By African-American artist Manet Harrison Fowler, Still life with flowers and Tuskegee pennant, 1966, watercolor on paper, 17 3/4 × 14 1/2 inches, photo: Swann Galleries, March 24, 2022. #art #blackart #blackartist #womanartist #womenartists From the gallery: "Manet Harrison Fowler (1895-1976) was a Texas native and 1913 graduate of the Tuskegee Institute who later studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and toured the country as a soprano opera singer. She brought the Mwalim Center fo...

• Post #2611456

  By Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), Garden and Chicken Coop, 1892, oil on canvas 28 7/8 x 36 ¼ in. (73.3 x 92 cm.), photo: Christie’s New York, 11 Nov 2019. This was the home of his friend Octave Mirbeau. #arthistory #art #impressionism #oilpainting #painting.

• Post #2467469

  By Japanese artist Keika Hasegawa (active 1892-1905), Chrysanthemum, 1893, color woodblock, 36.9 × 31.4 cm (image) 43.3 × 31.6 cm (sheet), National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. #arthistory #printmaking #art #JapaneseArt From Panteek Antique Prints: “In Japan, the chrysanthemum, or kiku, is the symbol of the sun, perfection, long life, power and nobility. The official flower of Japan and the seal of the Imperial family it is also the insignia on every Japanese passport.”

• Post #2336332

  By Diego Rivera (1886–1957), The Flower Vendor (Girl with Lilies), 1941, oil on masonite, Norton Simon Museum, Gift of Mr. Cary Grant, © Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. #arthistory #mexicanart #painting #oilpainting From the museum: “Rivera was among the leading North American artists of the twentieth century, best remembered for the public murals he painted throughout Mexico and the United States. He arrived at his...

• Post #2294047

  "Glance at the sun. See the moon and the stars. Gaze at the beauty of earth's greenings. Now, think. What delight God gives to humankind with all these things...All nature is at the disposal of humankind. We are to work with it. For without we cannot survive." - St. Hildegard of Bingen (ca. 1098-1179). Here is an example of a brown-eyed Susan, shot with my iPhone 15 Pro Max, taken on the banks of the creek near the public Library. Kind of looks like the flower is being...

• Post #2052612

  Beverly Y. Smith, "Minerva," 2022, from the artist's series "Last Seen Wearing," mixed media quilt, graphite portrait, vintage flour sacks, ticking fabric, vintage bow-tie quilt patterns, drunkard's path and patchwork quilt designs. The artist's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/quiltbev/ #BlackHistoryMonth #blackart #contemporaryart #quilting #quilts From the artist: “After the Civil War, freed slaves placed wanted information ads i...

• Post #1942901

  Your art history post for today: by Hasui Kawase 川瀬 巴水 (Japanese, 1883–1957), Azalea Garden, 1935, color woodblock print. As a print, it appears in many collections, both public and private. #arthistory #JapaneseArt #woodblocks #printmaking From Newfields, a Place for Nature & the Arts: “From 1900 to the 1950s, Hasui was one of the most prolific and popular landscape artists working in Japan. In 1953 the Japanese Government decided to designate Hasui a Living National Treasure. Much of...

• Post #1579433

  I have posted this haunting photograph of a 10-year old mill worker before, but it bears repeating. By Lewis W. Hine (1874-1940), “One of the spinners in Whitnel Cotton Mfg. Co. N.C. December 1908.” #photography #vintagephotography #childlabor #labor From the Cantor Art Center: “In 1908, Lewis Hine felt so strongly about the devastating affects of child labor that he quit working as a New York City school teacher to become an investigative photographer for the National Child Labor Committee. Hi...

• Post #1519239

  Photograph by French writer, caricaturist, and photographer Félix Nadar (1820-1910) of actress Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923), known as the Divine Sarah, salt print from a collodion glass negative, ca. 1860-1865. #photography #vintagephotography #photographyhistory