Art Detectives

 We went back and looked at Monet to examine the progression of his work. -- link --  Cliff at Pourville, 1882 How can we choose just one? Please peruse the hundreds of paintings in the link above to see what you love & discern the evolution of Monet's work. Valley of the Creuse (Gray Day) surprised us. The Google Arts & Culture version is so much brighter -- link -- than the one in the MFABoston collection -- link --  In the Woods at Giverny: Blanche Hoschedé at Her Easel with Suzanne Hoschedé Reading, 1887,  is one of the paintings we loved which sent us down the rabbit hole to discover who these two women were -- link --  Blanche Hoschedé  -- link -- Blanche did this exquisite painting L.A. Moisson (The Harvest), circa 1885 -- link --  Suzanne  Hoschedé  -- link --  Suzanne was the model in the famous Woman with Parasol, 1886 -- link --  Suzanne was married to American Impressionist Theodore Earl Butler -- link --  Family portrait of the Monet & Hosched é f

Top of the Day: The Threatened Swan - Jan Asselijn , 1640 - 1652 Today's Artwork: The Threatened Swan - Jan Asselijn , 1640 - 1652 -- link -- Fantasy - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes , 1866 -- link -- Theseus Finding the Sword and the Shoes of his Father - Laurent de La Hyre , ca. 1635–1636 -- link -- Self-Portrait Sopina - Sopina Yulia , 2008 -- link -- Portrait of Anthony Valabrègue - Paul Cézanne , 1869–1871 -- link -- Peasant Girl Among Tulips - Berthe Morisot , 1890 -- link -- Le cabanon de Jourdan - Paul Cézanne , 1906 -- link -- Pèpinièriste - Jean Dubuffet , 1944 -- link -- Portrait of Elizabeth Roydon, Lady Golding - Hans Eworth , 1563 -- link -- Boys Crabbing - William Ranney , 1855 -- link -- Boat House at Ingleneuk - Frederic Remington , 1903 -- link -- Song of the Lark - Winslow Homer , 1874 -- link -- ​

Top of the Day: Sky Fire - Walter Yarwood , 1957 Today's Artwork: Sky Fire - Walter Yarwood , 1957 -- link -- Liber Studiorum: Procris and Cephalus - Joseph Mallord William Turner (British, 1775-1851) -- link -- ​We started looking at three of Walter Yarwood's rich abstracts then sequed into J.M.W. Turner's exquisite expressionistic paintings. As Diana said, the whispy quality of many of his paintings is soothing & some of us felt meditative as we examined JMW's works.  The other two Yarwood''s  - link - - link - Some of the Turner's we saw - link -  - link -  - link -  - link - - link - - link - - link - - link - - link - - link - - link - - link - Here's the larger list of Turner's so you can see many of your own favorites  - link - 

Top of the Day: Three Boys in a Dory with Lobster Pots - Winslow Homer, 1875 Today's Artwork: Saint Anthony of Padua - Raphael, c. 1502 -- link -- The Freedman - John Quincy Adams Ward, 1863 -- link -- Byzantine Mosaic - Jamini Roy (1887-1972) -- link -- Saint John's Vision of the Seven Candlesticks - Albrecht Dürer, c. 1496-1498, printed 1511 -- link -- Kalkbrander - James Abbott McNeill Whistler, 1859/1859 -- link -- Mrs. Abington as Miss Prue in "Love for Love" by William Congreve - Sir Joshua Reynolds RA, 1723–1792, British, 1771 -- link -- The Unsafe Tenement - James McNeill Whistler, 1858 -- link -- Bunch of flowers - Workshop of Concordi González and Sons, Around 1890-1892 -- link -- Chorinho - Portinari, Candido (1903 - 1962), 1942/1942 -- link -- Russian Girl with Knapsack - Diego Rivera, 1956 -- link -- permanent sunrise - Alejandro Propato, created 2013; exhibited Sculpture by the Sea Bondi 2014 -- link -- The procuress - Gerard

Top of the Day: The Bewitched Mill - Franz Marc (German, 1880–1916), 1913 Today's Artwork: Sunset - Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39), ca. 1861 -- link -- Imagined Memories 1 - Kwon IN Kyung, 2015/2015 -- link -- Plums - Edouard Manet, c. 1880 -- link -- Tree #1 - Myoung Ho Lee, 2006/2006 -- link -- Ganapathi with Riddhi and Siddhi - Ravi Varma Press, 1890 -- link -- The Miner - George Benjamin Luks, 1925 -- link -- Governors of the Leper Hospital at Haarlem - Jan Salomonsz de Bray, 1667 -- link -- Still Life with Mangoes and a Hibiscus Flower - Paul Gauguin, 1887 -- link -- Earrings - Unknown -- link -- Flowers and a Bowl of Fruit on a Table - Paul Gauguin, 1894 -- link -- Portrait of Mieczysław Gajewicz - Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, 1936 -- link -- Carmencita - William Merritt Chase, 1890 -- link -- St. Justina, Venerated by a Patron - Moretto da Brescia, 1530/1534 -- link -- The mask - Frida Kahlo, 1945 -- link -- Mor

Katherine showed a painting created by Chassidic artist Tully Filmus, so we leapt into his varied and intriguing work.  This is Katherine's painting! You can't see the beautiful frame,  Tully painted but it's called Chassid with Nude, oil on canvas. Here are some examples of Tully Filmus's work -- link --  More examples of Filmus's work -- link --  His painting, Gladys from 1944, exhibited at the Whitney Museum -- link --  Then as we were about to go into a random art mode, Luba suggested we look at art & photographs of D Day since today is June 6th, 79 years since the invasion of Normandy.  D Day Info 79th Anniversary D Day art and photographs as well as video -- link -- 

Top of the Day: Liquid Video Game Pop Head - Douglas Coupland , 2010 Today's Artwork: Le Tapis Vert - Hubert Robert , c. 1775-77 -- link -- Plum Trees in Blossom - Claude Monet , 1879 -- link -- The Late Empire: Honorius - Jean-Paul Laurens , 1880 -- link -- The Drinkers - Honoré Daumier , by 1861 -- link -- Seated Man - Paul Cézanne , (1889 eller 1900) -- link -- Female portrait - Joaquim Espalter i Rull , 1846 -- link -- Gypsy Dance in the Gardens of the Alcázar outside the Pavilion of Charles V - Alfred Dehodencq , 1851 -- link -- Liquid Video Game Pop Head - Douglas Coupland , 2010 -- link -- A Woman Gathering Faggots at Ville-d'Avray - Camille Corot , ca. 1871–74 -- link -- A Hermit Praying in the Ruins of a Roman Temple - Hubert Robert , about 1760 -- link -- Panacea phantastica - Adriana Varejão , 2003/2008 -- link -- ​