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Random Tuesday

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Top of the Day: Young Nude Seated on the Edge of a Well - Henri Lebasque , 1907 Today's Artwork: Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way (mural study, U.S. Capitol) - Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze , 1861 -- link -- The Last Tavern at the City Gates - Vasily Perov , 1868 -- link -- Valdemar Schønheyder Møller - Anna Ancher , 1893 -- link -- Young Man and Woman in an Inn ('Yonker Ramp and His Sweetheart') - Frans Hals , 1623 -- link -- Donne al caffè (Women at the Café) - Piero Marussig , 1924 -- link -- Baptism of Saint Francis - Antonio del Castillo Saavedra , 1663/1665 -- link -- Still life with attributes of the arts - Jean-Baptiste Simeon Chardin , 1724/1728 -- link -- Richard Burbage - British School , Early 17th century -- link -- The sisters - Hugh Ramsay , 1904 -- link -- The Seine at Lavacourt , 1880 -- link -- Young Nude Seated on the Edge of a Well - Henri Lebasque , 1907 -- link -- ​

Umberto Boccioni

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Top of the Day: Stati d'animo - Gli addii - Umberto Boccioni , 1911 Today's Artwork: Distant View of the Mandan Village - George Catlin , 1832 -- link -- Holy Family - Harmensz van Rijn Rembrandt , 1645 -- link -- Josef Lewinsky as Carlos in Clavigo - Gustav Klimt , 1895 -- link -- Vase with Chinese Asters and Gladioli - Vincent van Gogh , August 1886 - September 1886 -- link -- Stati d'animo - Gli addii - Umberto Boccioni , 1911 -- link -- Umberto Boccioni does a wide variety of painting styles.  We could have spent the whole time on him.​

Random Saturday

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Top of the Day: Alice Vanderbilt Shepard - John Singer Sargent , 1888 Today's Artwork: Alice Vanderbilt Shepard - John Singer Sargent , 1888 -- link -- One Hundred Famous Views of Edo “Kasumigaseki” - Utagawa Hiroshige , 1857 -- link -- The Garden of Earthly Delights - Hieronymus Bosch (copy) , ca. 1520 -- link -- The Etretat Cliffs after the Storm - Gustave Courbet , 1870 -- link -- Ljubljana from the Ižica - Anton Karinger , 1858 -- link -- The Jewel - Joaquim Mir , Around 1910 -- link -- Old House - Petrascu, Gheorghe , cca. 1930 -- link -- Europa and the Bull - Reni, Guido , 17th century -- link -- Portrait of Honorable John Hamilton - William Hogarth , c. 1740 -- link -- Mount Wellington and Hobart Town from Kangaroo Point - John GLOVER , 1834 -- link -- Pangloss - Stubbs, George , about 1762 -- link -- Windmill with View of Delft - Waldorp, Antonie , 1836/1836 -- link -- Night Walker - Arnold Weisz - Kubínčan , 1935 - 1940 -- link -- ​

The Art Institute of Chicago

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Top of the Day: Are They Thinking about the Grape? (Pensent-ils au raisin?) - François Boucher (French, 1703–1770) , 1747 Today's Artwork: Are They Thinking about the Grape? (Pensent-ils au raisin?) - François Boucher (French, 1703–1770) , 1747 -- link -- ​We went down the  The Art Institute of Chicago rabbit hole

Random Saturday

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Top of the Day: The Iron Rolling Mill - Hans Dieter (After Adolph Menzel) Tylle , 2004 Today's Artwork: The Odalisque - Marià Fortuny , 1861 -- link -- George C. Marshall - Thomas Edgar Stephens , c. 1949 -- link -- Portrait of Baby de Almeida - Anita Malfatti , 1930 -- link -- Mary Magdalene - Bernardino Campi , 1522-1590 -- link -- Autorretrato - Arthur Timótheo da Costa , 1908 -- link -- Caravans from the Orient - Josep Maria Sert , 1921 -- link -- Caravans from the Orient - Josep Maria Sert , 1921 -- link -- Portrait of Robert Cheseman (1485-1547) - Holbein the Younger, Hans , 1533 -- link -- Northern Lights - Nosov Mikhail Mikhailovich , 1947/1947 -- link -- The Iron Rolling Mill - Hans Dieter (After Adolph Menzel) Tylle , 2004 -- link -- First Touch of Autumn - William Merritt Chase , about 1898 -- link -- ​

Random Art with Beth

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Top of the Day: The Abundance of Nature - Severin Roesen , 1855 Today's Artwork: Gipsy boy - August Pettenkofen , 1858 -- link -- Nymphs and Satyr - van Poelenburgh, Cornelis , Before 1667 -- link -- Family Portrait - Theodor Pistek , 1976 -- link -- Proclamation of the Republic of Estonia - Maksimilian Maxolly , 1920s -- link -- The Flageolet Player on the Cliff - Gauguin, Paul , 1889 -- link -- Andrew Jackson - Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl , c. 1835 -- link -- Still Life with Fish - William Merritt Chase , 1910/1910 -- link -- The Temptation of St. Anthony - David Teniers, the Younger , 17th century -- link -- Battle of Guararapes (ex-voto) - Unknown , 1758 -- link -- The Abundance of Nature - Severin Roesen , 1855 -- link -- The Thanksgiving of Noah - Il Baciccio (Giovanni Battista Gaulli) , 1700/1705 -- link -- Bather Stepping into a Tub - Edgar Degas , ca. 1890 -- link -- Louis de France, dauphin known as the Grand Dauphin - Hyacinthe Rigaud , 168...

Random Saturday

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Top of the Day: A Pair of Boots - Vincent van Gogh , 1887 Today's Artwork: St. Stephen - Hans Memling (Flemish, b.Circa 1433, d.1494) , Circa 1479 - Circa 1480 -- link -- Cloud Study, Hampstead, Tree at Right - John Constable , 27 September 1821 -- link -- Godoy como general - Francisco de Goya , 1801 -- link -- The Field Marshal Königsmarck - Matthaeus Merian , 1651 -- link -- A River Landscape - Asher Brown Durand , 1858 -- link -- Discovery of America - Johann Moritz Rugendas , 1820/1829 -- link -- Bad news - RODOLFO AMOEDO , 1895 -- link -- Triptych of Our Lady of Mercy - Jan Provoost , 16th century -- link -- A Pair of Boots - Vincent van Gogh , 1887 -- link -- Heyman - Kim Leutwyler , 2017 -- link -- Springtime in Rome - Baldomer Galofre , Around 1874-1884 -- link -- Dance at the Moulin de la Galette - Ramon Casas i Carbó , 1890 -- link -- Vétheuil - Claude Monet , 1902 -- link -- ​

Random Saturday

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Top of the Day: A Sunday afternoon - Tom ROBERTS , c1886 Today's Artwork: Portrait of Emperor Franz Joseph I - Franz Russ , 1863 -- link -- A Sunday afternoon - Tom ROBERTS , c1886 -- link -- Boyarina Morozova - Vasily Surikov , 1887 -- link -- Mrs. Fiske Warren (Gretchen Osgood) and Her Daughter Rachel - John Singer Sargent , 1903 -- link -- ​

Random Saturday

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Top of the Day: A Woman Reading a Letter by a Window - Pieter de Hooch , 1664 Today's Artwork: A Woman Reading a Letter by a Window - Pieter de Hooch , 1664 -- link -- Street in Asnières - Jean-Franҫois Raffaëlli , undated -- link -- Merrymakers at Shrovetide - Frans Hals , ca. 1616–17 -- link -- View of Auvers - Vincent van Gogh , May 1890 - June 1890 -- link -- ​

Random Saturday

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Top of the Day: Village Wedding - Jan Steen , Undated Today's Artwork: Village Wedding - Jan Steen , Undated -- link -- Bistro in Paris - Domoto Insho , 1952 -- link -- Untitled horse study 6 - Frederic Remington , 1899 -- link -- The Painter's Window - Juan Gris , 1925 -- link -- A Young Lady with a Parrot - Rosalba Carriera (Italian, 1675–1757) , About 1730 -- link -- Not at Home - Eastman Johnson , ca. 1873 -- link -- ​

Random Thursday

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Top of the Day: Galleon in the Mist - Halife Abdülmecid Efendi (1868-1944) , 1895-1896 Today's Artwork: Daughters of Revolution - Grant Wood , 1932 -- link -- The Trojan Women Setting Fire to Their Fleet - Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) , ca. 1643 -- link -- Portrait of a Young Man as David - Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti) , c. 1555-60 -- link -- Femme vue de dos - Auguste Renoir , 1875/1879 -- link -- Barking, Springtime - Myles Birket Foster , circa 1885 -- link -- Portrait of Mademoiselle Duplant - François-André Vincent , 1793 -- link -- DeWitt Clinton - John Wesley Jarvis , c. 1816 -- link -- Houses - Milan Laluha , 1964 - 1964 -- link -- Without known title (heart, cactus, fetus) - Frida Kahlo -- link -- Ready-to-Wear - Stuart Davis (American, 1892-1964) , 1955 -- link -- St. Jerome Saving Sylvanus and Punishing the Heretic Sabinianus - Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio) , 1502 - 1503 -- link -- Magnolias on Gold Velvet Cloth - Martin Johnson Heade , c. 1888...

Random Saturday

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Top of the Day: Points - Wassily Kandinsky , 1920 Today's Artwork: Market Scene - Pieter Aertsen , 1569 -- link -- Benjamin Harrison - Eastman Johnson , 1895 -- link -- A merry jest - Joseph Soulacroix , 1825 -- link -- Landscape at Hernani - Darío de Regoyos y Valdés , ca. 1900 -- link -- The Sisters Zénaïde and Charlotte Bonaparte , 1821 -- link -- Monks Carrying Umbrellas - Min Wae Aung , 1996 -- link -- Ships in a Stormy Sea off a Coast - Ludolf Backhuysen , circa 1700 - 1705 -- link -- Points - Wassily Kandinsky , 1920 -- link -- Composition - Ralph Rumney , 1957 -- link -- ​

Random Saturday

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Top of the Day: The Harvesters - Charles Angrand , 1892 Today's Artwork: The Harvesters - Charles Angrand , 1892 -- link -- The Return of the Reapers - Henry Herbert La Thangue , 1886 -- link -- Rubens, His Wife Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678) - Peter Paul Rubens -- link -- Trans Canada Hutch - Douglas Coupland , 2013 -- link -- Landscape with Village and Mountains - Max Slevogt , 1913 -- link -- Breton Fishermen and Their Families - Théodule-Augustin Ribot , possibly ca. 1880–85 -- link -- John Singleton Copley Self-Portrait - John Singleton Copley , 1780-1784 -- link -- Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem - Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn , 1630 -- link -- ​

Random Saturday

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Top of the Day: The Shepherdess of Rolleboise - Daniel Ridgway Knight , 1896 Today's Artwork: The Sick Girl - Steen, Jan , c. 1660 -- link -- Christine of France and Her Children - Piedmontese Painter , c. 1640 -- link -- Asparagus - Edouard Manet , 1880 -- link -- Lago Maggiore - William Stanley Haseltine , ca. 1867 -- link -- Still Life of Flowers in a Glass Vase - Balthasar van der Ast , 1624 -- link -- Forest in the Himalayas - Xu Beihong , 1940 -- link -- My Children (Mary, Gerald, and Gladys Thayer) - Abbott Handerson Thayer, born Boston, MA 1849-died Dublin, NH 1921 , ca. 1897 -- link -- The Shepherdess of Rolleboise - Daniel Ridgway Knight , 1896 -- link -- ​