Art Detectives

  Top of the Day: The Bewitched Mill by Franz Marc, 1913 Deer in the Flower Garden, Franz Marc - 1913 -- link -- The Dream, Franz Marc - 1912 -- link -- The Bewitched Mill, Franz Marc - 1913 -- link -- The House on the Bridge, Diego Rivera - 1909 -- link -- The Woman at the Well, Diego Rivera - 1913 -- link -- Zapata-style Landscape, Diego Rivera - 1915 -- link --

Top of the Day: The Nuns’ Parlour at SanZaccaria - Francesco Guardi, 1746 - 1750 Today's Artwork: Self-Portrait with Her Daughter, Julie (1780-1819) - Louise-Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun (1755-1842) and Paris, Louvre museum, 18th Century -- link -- Beer Street - William Hogarth, 1751 -- link -- The Pasha in His Harem, c. 1735-1739 - Francois Boucher, c. 1735-1739 -- link -- The Nuns’ Parlour at SanZaccaria - Francesco Guardi, 1746 - 1750 -- link -- ​Johannah found this article about the Nuns of SanZaccaria (there's more to the article, some hard punishment stories of the time period, you may or may not want to read)  https://iamnotmakingthisup.net/23954/the-flesh-is-mightier-than-the-sword/ and a little more about their history I found but I know there's more written about these women:  https://www.medievalists.net/2020/07/nuns-san-zaccaria/ Terry was right about them being from wealthy families and the powers-that-be were very concerned about the nun's habits

 Greg's pick for Top of the Day:  Good Night Nurse, 2000-2001 Mad Elga #2, 1997  -- link -- Untitled (193, 184, 141, 109), 1990  -- link -- Bee Line Trucking, 2005  -- link -- Sore Models Two, 1994  -- link -- Bulletin Board (Gumdrops), 2004-2005  -- link --

Top of the Day:   The Touch Up, 2009 Untitled, 1992  -- link -- Duckling, 2013  -- link -- The Touch Up, 2009  -- link -- Untitled, 1989  -- link -- All Souls (Thursday Island), 2008   -- link --

Top of the Day: Love Laughs - Jane Hammond, 2005 Today's Artwork: Self-Portrait - Alice Bailly, 1917 -- link -- Love Laughs - Jane Hammond, 2005 -- link -- Clam Diggers - Clare Leighton, 1946 -- link -- Untitled (68) - Hellen van Meene, 1999 -- link -- First Brush Stroke - Jan Owen, 2001 -- link -- ​More on Jan Owen who created First Brush Stroke, the golden background with scripted sayings & the bold caligraphy "first shot!'  https://nmwa.org/art/artists/jan-owen/

Top of the Day: The Only Permanence Is Change - Hollis Sigler, 1995 Today's Artwork: Clasped Hands of Elizabeth and Robert Browning - Harriet Goodhue Hosmer, 1853/1853 -- link -- Lockheed Worker Working on the Fuselage of a P-38, from the series “Women at War” - Edna Reindel, 1942 -- link -- The Only Permanence Is Change - Hollis Sigler, 1995 -- link -- Acrylic No. 3 - Fanny Sanín, 1988 -- link -- ​Detective Beth found this bronze of the Clasped Hands of Elizabeth Barrett & Robert Browning from the same year as the plaster cast.  https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/clasped-hands-of-robert-and-elizabeth-barrett-browning-harriet-goodhue-hosmer/eQENut41kiu6Aw

  Top of the Day: Traveling Circus - Paul Klee, 1937 Traveling Circus - Paul Klee, 1937 -- link -- Mont Sainte-Victoire and Château Noir - Paul Cézanne, c.1904 - c.1906 -- link -- Still life with kettle - Paul Cézanne, 1867 - 1869 -- link -- Wald Bau - Paul Klee, 1919 -- link -- Winter Day, Shortly before Noon - Paul Klee, 1922 -- link --

Top of the Day: Stéphane Carricondo - Constellation - Stéphane Carricondo, 2013/2013 Today's Artwork: Contrast of Forms - Fernand Léger, 1913 -- link -- The Vanishing Race (Navajo) - Edward Sheriff Curtis, 1904 -- link -- Stéphane Carricondo - Constellation - Stéphane Carricondo, 2013/2013 -- link -- Andrea Odoni (1488-1545) - Lorenzo Lotto, 1527 -- link -- The Oise near Pontoise in Grey Weather - Camille Jacob Pissarro, 1876 -- link -- ​

Top of the Day: Landscape of Brittany - Paul Gauguin, 1888 Today's Artwork: The Moon and the Earth - Paul Gauguin, 1893 -- link -- Landscape of Brittany - Paul Gauguin, 1888 -- link -- Self-Portrait - Paul Gauguin, 1885 -- link -- Soyez amoureuses vous serez heureuses (Be In Love and You Will Be Happy) - Paul Gauguin, 1889 -- link -- Confirmand's Procession - Émile Bernard, 1891 - 1891 -- link -- ​

Top of the Day: "The Lady of Shalott" - John Atkinson Grimshaw, 1836–1893, British, ca. 1875 Today's Artwork: Hyde Park - John Martin, 1789–1854, British, ca. 1815 -- link -- Temple, Fountain and Cave in Sezincote Park - Thomas Daniell, 1749–1840, British, active in India, 1819 -- link -- Game Keeper and Boy Ferreting a Rabbit - John Frederick Lewis, 1804–1876, British, ca. 1828 -- link -- Kinchinjunga - Edward Lear, 1812–1888, British, 1877 -- link -- "The Lady of Shalott" - John Atkinson Grimshaw, 1836–1893, British, ca. 1875 -- link -- ​

Top of the Day: White mask - Fernand Khnopf, 1907 - 1907 Today's Artwork: La Belle Angèle - Paul Gauguin, 1889 -- link -- White mask - Fernand Khnopf, 1907 - 1907 -- link -- A Virgin - Artist: Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1892-1893 -- link -- The red tree - Odilon Redon, 1904/1905 -- link -- Landscape from Bretagne - Paul Gauguin, 1889 -- link -- ​

Top of the Day: Landscape with a Pig and a Horse (Hiva Oa) - Paul Gauguin, 1903 Today's Artwork: Woman with Figs - Paul Gauguin|Armand Séguin|Armand Séguin, 1894 -- link -- Landscape with a Pig and a Horse (Hiva Oa) - Paul Gauguin, 1903 -- link -- Spirit of the Dead Watching - Paul Gauguin, 1893–94 -- link -- Girl Herding Pigs - GAUGUIN,Paul, 1889 -- link -- ​A better copy of The Spirit of the Dead Watching -- link --

  Top of the day: Rainy Season in the Tropics by Frederic Edwin Church Aztec ?llamalitzli players, Christoph Weiditz - 1528 -- link -- Biscayan Woman, Christoph Weiditz - 1530-1540 -- link -- Wealthy Biscayan Woman, Christoph Weiditz - 1530-1540 -- link -- The Landing of Columbus, Albert Bierstadt - 1893 -- link -- Rainy Season in the Tropics, Frederic Edwin Church - 1866 -- link --

Top of the Day: Manteneia II - Frank Stella, 1968/1968 Today's Artwork: Lady in Yellow (Eleanor Reeves) - Susan Watkins Serpell, 1902 -- link -- Freedom - Whitfield Lovell, 2001/2001 -- link -- American Beauty - Walt Kuhn, 1934/1934 -- link -- Number 23, 1951 - Jackson Pollock, 1951/1951 -- link -- Manteneia II - Frank Stella, 1968/1968 -- link -- ​

Vintage  http://www.wendellcastle.com/portfolio/vintage/ Contemporary  http://www.wendellcastle.com/portfolio/contemporary/ Studio  https://www.woodworkingnetwork.com/community/show-us-your-shop/remembrance-wave-wendell-castle Extending Table  https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6211093 Lauding Wendell Castle  https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/wendell-castle-man-who-made-furniture-dance-dead-85-180967982/ NY Times Obit  https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/26/obituaries/wendell-castle-dies.html Examples of his work  https://www.surfacemag.com/articles/wendell-castle-agent Introspective  https://www.1stdibs.com/introspective-magazine/wendell-castle-friedman-benda/ Not Wendell Castle!  https://www.bobvila.com/slideshow/16-new-things-you-can-do-with-old-furniture-49928 More Crazy Chairs!  https://www.dezeen.com/2020/12/04/dezeen-top-10-quirky-furniture-designs-of-2020/ Wicker with Personality!  https://mossandfog.com/hilariously-fun-wicker-chairs-by-designer-chris-wolston

 WORST OF THE DAY!!! (Our usual Best transformed because....) :  The Hannibal Lecter Chair! Mathias De Ferm https://www.ofdesign.net/furniture-designs/wooden-furniture-with-architectural-aspect-of-mathias-de-ferm-3891 Chairs as Art http://www.home-designing.com/uniquely-artistic-modern-sculptural-chairs Bizarre Furniture https://homesthetics.net/40-of-the-most-unusual-and-bizarre-furniture-designs-you-have-ever-seen/

 Top of the Day: Cat Nip Cat!  I used every pic on this link including the one of him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Wain Here are some titles of the art from the above link: Realistic early cat 'Caught! Keep your mouth shut and let me open your mind for you' An early Louis Wain caricature, featuring bulldogs rather than cats Impatient Golfer: Finally!!!  Yule Log Catnip Cat Cats produced while in the sanitarium Psychedelic before his time! OTHER LINKS Bethlem Museum of the Mind  https://museumofthemind.org.uk/collections/gallery/artists/louis-william-wain Cute Cats & Psychedelia  https://illustrationchronicles.com/Cute-Cats-and-Psychedelia-The-Tragic-Life-of-Louis-Wain Google Arts & Culture  https://artsandculture.google.com/search?q=Louis%20Wain%20

Top of the Day: Slick - Barkley L. Hendricks, 1977/1977 Today's Artwork: Sundown - Rockwell Kent, 1921 - 1921 -- link -- The Maidservant - Camille Pissarro, 1875 -- link -- Orestes Pursued by the Furies - Adolphe William Bouguereau, 1862/1862 -- link -- Black Door with Red - Georgia O'Keeffe, 1954/1954 -- link -- Silver Skies - James Rosenquist, 1962/1962 -- link -- Homesicknessof an Engineer - Giorgio de Chirico, 1916/1916 -- link -- Slick - Barkley L. Hendricks, 1977/1977 -- link -- ​

  Today was a little different than usual.  We started with a random piece of art on Google Arts and Culture then followed links on that piece of artwork to the next piece of art.  The link could be the artist, the museum, a similar work, or the medium of the artwork.  It lead us to some pretty random places. Unknown title (Coty), Amadeo de Souza Cardoso -- link -- Krumau - Crescent of Houses (The Small City V) (Krumau Hauserbogen (die Kleine Stadt V)), Egon Schiele -- link -- Two Women Embracing, Egon Schiele -- link -- The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man, Jan Brueghel the Elder -- link -- The Madonna in the Church, Jan van Eyck -- link -- The Broken Column, Frida Kahlo -- link --

Top of the Day: Transformation and In Transition - Prachayaporn Vorananta Today's Artwork: Young Woman Wearing a Turban - Mary Ann Willson, 1800 - 1825 -- link -- Awaken Journey - Bunchongsri Phunlao -- link -- Thailand Seasonal - Supalak Tongsiri -- link -- Transformation and In Transition - Prachayaporn Vorananta -- link -- Shadow Box - Sarah Pucci, c.1970 -- link -- ​ James Hampton, Crown from The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations’ Millennium General Assembly, 1950-64 James Hampton, The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations’ Millennium General Assembl, 1950-64 James Hampton, The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations’ Millennium General Assembly, 1950-64 James Hampton, Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly, 1950-64 James Hampton, The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations’ Millennium General Assembly, 1950-64 James Hampton, The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations’ Millennium General Assembly, 1950-64 J

  Top of the Day: Miinnie Evans, Design Made at Airlie Gardens, 1967 Minnie Evans, Untitled (Three Faces in a Floral Design), n.d. Minnie Evans, Untitled (Flowering Tree), ca. 1942 Minnie Evans, Untitled (Starry Sky & Religious Figures), 1960, 63, 66 Minnie Evans, Untitled (Face with Eyes & Leaf Designs with Sunset Over Water), 1950 Minnie Evans, Untitled, 1951 Minnie Evans, Minnie Evans, Untitled, 1967, (1946, 1958, 1960, 1962) Minnie Evans Bottle Chapel photo with link to video (video below) https://airliegardens.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Minnie-Evans-PDF-with-link-to-video-.pdf Minnie Evans Sculpture Garden at Arlie Gardens

Top of the Day: La Princesse dans la tour - Maurice Denis (Granville 1870-Saint-Germain-en-Laye 1943), 1914 Today's Artwork: La Princesse dans la tour - Maurice Denis (Granville 1870-Saint-Germain-en-Laye 1943), 1914 -- link -- Nossas almas, em movimentos lentos, [da série] Amor - Maurice Denis -- link -- The Talisman - Paul Sérusier, 1888 -- link -- Madonna and Child by Red-Pot Pokers - Maurice DENIS, 1925 -- link -- The Infancy of Jupiter - Ker-Xavier Roussel, 1923/1924 -- link -- ​Distemper!!! The paint not the problem!  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distemper_(paint)

Top of the Day: La Colonie de Vacances (Summer Camp) - Maurice Denis, 1913 Today's Artwork: The Painter's Studio - Pierre Bonnard, 1905 -- link -- Illustratie met naakte vrouw bij gedicht in dichtbundel Sagesse van Paul Verlaine - Maurice Denis, 1895/1895 -- link -- La Colonie de Vacances (Summer Camp) - Maurice Denis, 1913 -- link -- Le Devoir - Henri-Gabriel Ibels, 1893 -- link -- Bataille de le Marne - Georges Hermann-Paul -- link -- Design for Program Cover for "Boubourouche", Le Theatre Libre - Henri-Gabriel Ibels, 1893 -- link -- ​

Top of the Day: Standing bull, ca. mid-1st millennium B.C. Today's Artwork: The Infancy of Zeus - Berchem, Nicolaes Pietersz, 1648 -- link -- Rainy Night, Downtown - Georgia Mills Jessup, 1967 -- link -- Mrs. Cézanne in Red - Paul Cézanne, 1890 - 1894 -- link -- Standing bull, ca. mid-1st millennium B.C. -- link -- Pendant - Unknown -- link -- Nude woman reading - Robert Delaunay, (1915) -- link -- ​

Top of the Day: Retrato de Lucy I - Lasar Segall, 1935 Today's Artwork: untitled - Klit and Vhils, 2011/2013 -- link -- Krishna Dancing with Gopis in Vrindavan, Folio from a Balagopalastuti (Praise for the Young Lord of the Cowherds) - Unknown, circa 1450-1475 -- link -- Projeto de cor para cenário do balé O Mandarim Maravilhoso - Lasar Segall, c.1954 -- link -- Retrato de Lucy I - Lasar Segall, 1935 -- link -- Embroidery; The Artist's Mother - Georges Seurat -- link -- ​

  Leslie-Anne, Bruno & Vera Show Out!  Leslie Ann's Van Gogh Experience photos and Bruno's French Countryside shots -- link -- Leslie Ann's Van Gogh Experience Video -- link -- Jean-Léon Gérôme, Pygmalion and Galatea, circa 1890 -- link --

Top of the Day: Futuristic City - Lazar Khidekel (1904-1986, painter and architect), 1926 Today's Artwork: Aero City - Lazark Khidekel (1904-1986, painter and architect) -- link -- Futuristic City - Lazar Khidekel (1904-1986, painter and architect), 1926 -- link -- The Swallows [Diving]. Design for postcard - Gustavs Klucis, 1928/1928 -- link -- Osnovnoye. Design for a stand at the entrance to an exhibition of works by the students of the Basic Course of VKhUTEMAS (Design project for the emblem of the Basic Course of VKhUTEMAS) - Gustavs Klucis, 1924/1926 -- link -- Women's mask. Sketch for costume for production of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. - Artist Alexandra Exter, 1921 -- link -- Volumetric Composition in the Brutalist Style - Lazar Khidekel (1904-1986, painter and architect), 1960 -- link -- ​