Art Detectives

​We viewed more works from the Harlem Renaissance today -- with little leaps into individual artists' work. The Top of the Day is this astounding mural by Charles Alston from 1949 called Exploration and Colornization. So much history and storytelling in this masterpiece! --  link  --  Today's Artwork: Mask - Sargent Claude Johnson, 1934 -- link -- Sunday Shoes - Palmer C. Hayden, 1963 -- link -- Grand Bois d’Illet - Loïs Mailou Jones, 1985 -- link -- Boy From Home - Palmer C. Hayden, 1948/1950 -- link -- Old Black Joe - Horace Pippin, 1943 -- link -- A Man Ain't Nothin' But A Man - Palmer C. Hayden, 1944/1947 -- link -- Head of a Girl - Sargent Claude Johnson (American, 1887-1967), 1935 -- link -- The Trial of John Brown - Horace Pippin (1888–1946), 1942 -- link -- Family Group - Charles Alston, 1950 -- link -- He Healed the Sick - Henry Ossawa Tanner, born Pittsburgh, PA 1859-died Paris, France 1937, ca. 1930 -- link -- High Peaks - William Henry

 THIS PAGE IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION Henry Ossawa Tanner  William H. Johnson  Carles Alston  Horace Pippin Sargent Claude Johnson  Palmer C. Hayden 

Top of the Day: Girl in a Large Hat - Caesar Boëtius van Everdingen, c. 1645 - c. 1650 Today's Artwork: Girl in a Large Hat - Caesar Boëtius van Everdingen, c. 1645 - c. 1650 -- link -- O Eremita penitente (Profeta) - Candido Portinari, 1943 - 1943 -- link -- Portrait of Juana of Austria, Princess of Portugal - Alonso Sánchez Coello, c.1557 -- link -- Bowl with Edging - unknown, Ming Dynasty -- link -- Breaking of Dawn - Yokoyama Taikan, 1940 -- link -- Pauline Hübner, born Bendemann - Julius Hübner, 1829 -- link -- Infanta Margarita Teresa in a Blue Dress - Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velázquez, 1659 -- link -- Tan, Orange, Yellow, Lavender - Georgia O'Keeffe, 1959-1960 -- link -- Water Lilies - MONET, Claude, 1908 -- link -- Pair of shoes - Unknown -- link -- I vespri siciliani - Francesco Hayez, 1846 -- link -- The milking shed - E Phillips Fox, (circa 1893) -- link -- ​

Top of the Day: I Love Nairobi 31 - Michael Soi Today's Artwork: Chokwe ancestor couple, 1800/1880 -- link -- Troia - Wolfgang Lettl, 1988 -- link -- Daughter of Esan (third generation) - Marcellina Akpojotor, 2018 -- link -- Couple on a walk - Gustave Cailllebotte, 1881 -- link -- 1917' souvenir embroidered silk postcard - Creator unknown, 1917 -- link -- Une longue chrysalide couleur de sang (A longchrysalis, the color of blood) - Odilon Redon, 1889 -- link -- PH-18 - Clyfford Still, 1955 -- link -- The Catskills - Asher Brown Durand (American, 1796-1886), 1859 -- link -- Liggend meisje en geesten van overledenen - Paul Gauguin, 1893/1894 -- link -- Self-Portrait Etching at a Window - Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) -- link -- Beer Glasses - E. Bakalowits & Söhne, Koloman Moser, designed 1899-1900 -- link -- Mount Kennedy, County Wicklow, Ireland - William Ashford, 1746–1824, British, 1785 -- link -- Petunia No. 2 - Georgia O'Keeffe, 1924

  Top of the Day is this vibrant Untitled work of Nigerian Master Chief Bob Aiwerioba from 2009. We went gaga for  his cubist shapes, deep lines, textures surfaces, and the COLORFUL worlds he creates.  Untitled, 2009 -- link --  Untitled XI, 2007 -- link --  Untitled, 2009 -- link --  Untitled, 2008 -- link --  Gossip Grupe, 2009 -- link --  Family, 2009 -- link -- 

Top of the Day: The Leap of the Rabbit - Amadeo de Souza Cardoso (Portuguese, 1887–1918), 1911 Today's Artwork: The Herring Net - Winslow Homer (American, 1836-1910), 1885 -- link -- Arlésiennes (Mistral) - Paul Gauguin (French, 1848-1903), 1888 -- link -- Black Cross, New Mexico - Georgia O’Keeffe (American, 1887-1986), 1929 -- link -- Painterly Realism of a Football Player – Color Masses in the 4th Dimension - Kazimir Malevich (Russian, born Ukraine, 1878–1935), summer-fall 1915 -- link -- Self-Portrait - Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890), 1887 -- link -- The Leap of the Rabbit - Amadeo de Souza Cardoso (Portuguese, 1887–1918), 1911 -- link -- After the Hurricane, Bahamas - Winslow Homer (American, 1836-1910), 1899 -- link -- Saint George Killing the Dragon - Bernat Martorell (Spanish, about 1400–1452), 1400/52 -- link -- The Laundress - Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919), 1877/79 -- link -- Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist -

Top of the Day: Figurine des bunten Teufels - Paul Klee, 1927/1927 Today's Artwork: The Green Hill - Winslow Homer, 1878 -- link -- André Breton - Man Ray, 1929 -- link -- Embroidery sample for a man’s suit -- link -- Figurine des bunten Teufels - Paul Klee, 1927/1927 -- link -- The Holy Family - Jan Gossaert, known as “Mabuse”, c.1525-1530 -- link -- The Lament - Edward Burne-Jones, 1866 -- link -- Un Avocat qui est... rempli de la conviction... intime... - Honoré Daumier, 1845 -- link -- ​

Top of the Day: 37c Audrey Hepburn stamp - United States Postal Service, 2003-06-11 Today's Artwork: 37c Audrey Hepburn stamp - United States Postal Service, 2003-06-11 -- link -- 15c XX Olympic Summer Games - Munich 1972 stamp, 1972-08-17 -- link -- 29c Northern Mariana Islands stamp - United States Postal Service, 1993-11-04 -- link -- 33c Jackson Pollock stamp - United States Postal Service, 1999-02-18 -- link -- 37c "Child in a Straw Hat" stamp - United States Postal Service, 2003-08-07 -- link -- 13c Valley Forge stamp, 1977-10-21 -- link -- ​We have been wanting to peruse stamp designs for a bit, so Jerry set up our Random Art machine using Google Arts & Culture. Today was especially fun as people showed off their stamps, told stamp stories & talked about collecting. We also introduced (more or less) Bruno to our Top of the Day, Audrey Hepburn!  Here are three other designs by Lance Wyman who designed the 1972 Winter & Summer Olympic

Top of the Day: Sailing Boats at Argenteuil - Gustave Caillebotte, circa 1888 Today's Artwork: The Circle of the Rue Royale - James Tissot, 1868 -- link -- Tiberius exiles - Félix Joseph Barrias, 1850 -- link -- Queen Victoria opening the 1851 Universal Exhibition, at the Crystal Palace in London - Thomas Abel Prior, 1851 -- link -- Toilet of the Duchess of Parma - François-Désiré Froment-Meurice, Circa 1847 -- link -- Sailing Boats at Argenteuil - Gustave Caillebotte, circa 1888 -- link -- Thatched Cottages at Cordeville - Vincent van Gogh, 1890 -- link -- Regattas at Argenteuil - Claude Monet, circa 1872 -- link -- Chair - Carlo Bugatti, 1902 -- link -- The Loing's Canal - Alfred Sisley, 1892 -- link -- The Rue Montorgueil in Paris. Celebration of June 30, 1878 - Claude Monet, 1878 -- link -- Angelica and Rogero Mounted on the Hippogryph - Antoine-Louis Barye, 1855 -- link -- Napoleon I as a Roman Emperor - Antoine-Louis Barye, 1860/1865 -- link -

Top of the Day: DYESEBEL - Raymond Legaspi, 2014 - 2014 Today's Artwork: DYESEBEL - Raymond Legaspi, 2014 - 2014 -- link -- Virgin - Unknown, First half of 14th century -- link -- Cope - Unknown, 1475/1500 -- link -- Windsor - Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British, ca. 1798 -- link -- Southern Cassowary - Jane Kim, Ink Dwell Studio, 2014-08/2015-12 -- link -- Farmhouse in Nuenen - Vincent van Gogh, 1885 -- link -- Otherworld － In repose - Xiang Jing, 2011 -- link -- Under the Poplars - Claude Monet, 1887 -- link -- Modello for the Fountain of the Moor - Gian Lorenzo Bernini, 1653 -- link -- Theodor Mommsen. Study - Franz von Lenbach, 1897 -- link -- Sunset number 1 - Diego Rivera, 1956 -- link -- ​

Top of the Day: The Swineherd - Paul Gauguin, 1888 Today's Artwork: Female Ascetics (Yoginis), circa 1730-1740 -- link -- The Swineherd - Paul Gauguin, 1888 -- link -- Don't scream, stupid - Francisco Goya y Lucientes, 1799 -- link -- Funerary Sculpture of a Chimera (Bixie) - Unknown, Eastern Han dynasty, 25-220 -- link -- The Stoning of Saint Stephen - Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, 1635 -- link -- Pornokrates' or 'La Dame au cochon' - Félicien Victor Joseph Rops, 1896 -- link -- Samanosuke Mitsutoshi with Fox Fires - Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1865, 2nd month -- link -- Prehistoric Painted Pottery Vessel - Unknown, circa 5000-4500 B.C. -- link -- The Entombment - Albrecht Dürer, 1512 -- link -- Baltimore Album Memorial Quilt - Unknown, circa 1848 -- link -- Portrait of Marie-Antoinette - Jean-François Janinet, 1777 -- link -- Stamp Seal, Gabled, Hemispheroid - Unknown, circa 4th millennium B.C. -- link -- Kintarō Seizes the Carp - Tsukioka Y

Top of the Day: left: Mummy portrait of a man in Antique Tempera Painting, middle: Mummy portrait of a woman in Encaustic, right: Mummy portrait of a boy in Cold Wax Painting Datierung [dateCreated]: links: 2. Hälfte 2. Jahrhundert – um 200, Mitte: 1. Hälfte 2. Jahrhundert, rechts: 2. Jahrhundert, left: 2nd half of the 2nd century – around 200; middle: 1st half of the 2nd century; right: 2nd century Today's Artwork: Salus Populi Romani, face of Mary, 12th to 13th century -- link -- A man in a blue cloak - Unknown, 1st century AD -- link -- left: Mummy portrait of a man in Antique Tempera Painting, middle: Mummy portrait of a woman in Encaustic, right: Mummy portrait of a boy in Cold Wax Painting Datierung [dateCreated]: links: 2. Hälfte 2. Jahrhundert – um 200, Mitte: 1. Hälfte 2. Jahrhundert, rechts: 2. Jahrhundert, left: 2nd half of the 2nd century – around 200; middle: 1st half of the 2nd century; right: 2nd century -- link -- Portrait of a thin-faced, bearded man --

Top of the Day: The Alarm Clock - Diego Rivera, 1914 Today's Artwork: Day Break at the Hermitage - Unknown, Mid 19th Century -- link -- Oh! These Rumors! - Paul Klee, 1939 -- link -- The Alarm Clock - Diego Rivera, 1914 -- link -- Dreams of Building-10 - Koh, Myung Keun, 2002 -- link -- Moon of Kintoki's mountain, from the series One Hundred Aspects of the Moon - Artist: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, Publisher: Kokkeido (Akiyama Buemon), 1890.1 -- link -- Hyacinthe Gabrielle Roland, Marchioness Wellesley, (formerly Countess of Mornington) - Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun -- link -- Get Erection, 2011-5 - Kim, Jonak, 2011 -- link -- Blue--A - Georgia O'Keeffe, 1959 -- link -- Bracelet - Unknown -- link -- Rain over Makura Bridge - Artist: Takahashi Shotei, Publisher: S. Watanabe Color Print Co., 1909-1915 -- link -- Plein air - Ramon Casas, Around 1890-1891 -- link -- Madame Hessel au Sofa (Madame Hessel on the Sofa) - Edouard Vuillard, 1900 -- link --

Top of the Day, of so many monumental works in the DuSable Museum, is this beautiful Quilt Cover created by Melvina Young --  link  --  Fred Hampton Memorial Poster -- link --  William Edouard Scott, George Washington Carver and Booker T. Washington in Carver's Laboratory, n.d. -- link --  Charles C. Dawson, Homecoming Day Tuskegee Institute -- link --  Elizabeth Catlett, Untitled -- link --  Charles White, Harvest Talk, 1953 -- link --  Elizabeth Catlett, Sharecropper, 1952 -- link --  Writing Desk of Ida B. Well-Barnett owned by her daughter Alfreda Barnett Duster -- link --  Archibald Motley, The History of America, 1938 -- link --  Ellis Wilson, African Mask -- link --  Henry Ossawa Tanner, Untitled (Moonlight Landscape), 1928 / 1936 -- link --  Charles White, Frederick Douglass, 1951 -- link --  Archibald Motley, Extra Paper, 1946 -- link --  Celementine Hunter, Minding Baby -- link -- Archibald Motley, Christmas Eve, 1945 -- link --  Elizabeth Catlett, Niño Negr

Top of the Day: Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) - Franz Marc and Wassily Kandinsky, published by R. Piper & Co., 1912 Today's Artwork: El pelele - Francisco de Goya, 1791-1792 -- link -- PH-80 - Clyfford Still, 1935 -- link -- Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) - Franz Marc and Wassily Kandinsky, published by R. Piper & Co., 1912 -- link -- A Potentate Accompanied by His Halberd Bearer - Jusepe de Ribera -- link -- The Infanta Marguerita after Velázquez - Édouard Manet|Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez), 1862–64 -- link -- Portrait of the opera singer Caroline Seidler-Wranitzky - Carl Begas d. Ä., 1825 -- link -- Merry Company - Hals, Dirck, 1633 -- link -- Bleu de ciel (Sky Blue) - Kandinsky, Vassily, 1940 -- link -- Button, ca. 1775 -- link -- Daisies - Gertrudes Altschul -- link -- Vercingétorix - Eugène Delacroix, 1829 -- link -- Model of a Woman Grinding Grain - Unknown, First Intermediate Period - early Middle Kingdom, 2134-1

Top of the Day: Reading the Story of Oenone - Francis Davis Millet, 1883 Today's Artwork: The Lonely Pine - George Inness, 1893 -- link -- Reading the Story of Oenone - Francis Davis Millet, 1883 -- link -- Evening - Paul Signac, 1898 -- link -- A Gallery at Gymnase - Edouard Vuillard, about 1900 -- link -- Dancers - Edgar Degas, 1897 -- link -- Child with a Biscuit - Pierre Auguste Renoir, 1898 /1899 -- link -- ​