Peacock and Peonies
Hanging scroll, ink, colour and gold on silk, 1768, by Maruyama Ōkyo, 1733 – 1795 In my last year of teaching at a school in Zimbabwe, a...
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Feb 7, 20203 min read
Winter Landscape, 1915
Oil on canvas, 1915, by Edvard Munch (1863 - 1944) As both Marc and Corinth were associated with German Expressionism and because he was...
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Feb 1, 20204 min read
Portrait of the Sculptor Friedrich, 1904
Oil on canvas, 1904, by Lovis Corinth (1858 – 1925) The German artist Lovis Corinth was later to become another victim of Nazi censorship...
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Jan 25, 20203 min read
Grazing Horses IV (The Red Horses)
Oil on canvas, 1911, by Franz Marc (1880 – 1916) There is an entire gallery at the Fogg Museum which is designated to “Art in Germany...
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Jan 19, 20203 min read
Upper Deck
Oil on Canvas, 1929, by Charles Sheeler (1883 - 1965) I keep coming back to this painting, hanging in the modernist section of the...
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Jan 11, 20204 min read
Royal Tiger
Lithograph on off-white wove paper, 1829, by Eugène Delacroix (1798 – 1863) I had heard of Delacroix mainly as one of the master painters...
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Jan 7, 20203 min read
Nocturne in Grey and Gold: Chelsea Snow
Oil on canvas, 1876, by James Abbot McNeill Whistler (1834 – 1903) This dark, brooding, diffuse, near monochromatic canvas may seem an...
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Dec 31, 20193 min read
Dogs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Bed Oak and pine veneered with mahogany; Ebonized pine; patinated bronze; gilded metal; modern upholstery, c. 1810, probably by Thomas...
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Dec 24, 20193 min read
The Virgin with the Sleeping Christ Child
Oil on canvas, c. 1610, by Orazio Gentileschi, (1563 – 1639) For the week of Christmas, a scene of the nativity. This is one of several...
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Dec 17, 20193 min read
Summer Scene (with bathers)
Oil on canvas, 1869, by Jean Frederic Bazille (1841 - 1870) I was drawn to this painting primarily because it vividly echoes one of the...
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Dec 10, 20193 min read
Brainbow of a Hippocampus
Microetching on photographic paper, 2007, by Jean Livet, Ryan Draft and Jeff Lichtman Coming across this lithograph, one immediately...
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Dec 3, 20193 min read
Mother and Child
Oil on canvas, 1901, by Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973) Of the several Picassos hung in the same space, Mother and Child is by far the most...
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Nov 26, 20193 min read
Hanging Woodcock
Oil on canvas, 1897, by George Cope (1855 – 1929) There is something immediately very disarming about Hanging Woodcock which also invites...
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Nov 19, 20192 min read
Henry Lee Higginson
Oil on canvas, 1903 by John Singer Sargent (1856 – 1925) Higginson is described by the curator as being a Civil War Veteran and a banker,...
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