Art Detectives

Top of the Day: Dolls - Witold Wojtkiewicz , 1906 Today's Artwork: Dolls - Witold Wojtkiewicz , 1906 -- link -- ​

Top of the Day: Nature morte aux asphodèles (Still Life with Asphodels) - Henri Matisse , 1907 Today's Artwork: King Afonso VI - Unknown author , 17th century -- link -- Nature morte aux asphodèles (Still Life with Asphodels) - Henri Matisse , 1907 -- link -- Benacre Birch I, III - Julian Perry , 2015 -- link -- Portrait of Manuel Mª Gutiérrez - Antonio María Esquivel , 1834 -- link -- Gelmeroda IX - Lyonel Feininger , 1926 -- link -- Portrait of Queen Charlotte of England - Thomas Gainsborough, studio , 1781/1781 -- link -- Self-Portrait with Striped Shirt - Egon Schiele , 1910 -- link -- Untitled (Night Snow Scene) - George W. Sotter , 1949 -- link -- Letitia Wilson Jordan - Thomas Eakins , 1888 -- link -- ​

Top of the Day: Alice Nordin - Viggo Johansen , 1903 Today's Artwork: PH-651 - Clyfford Still , 1934 -- link -- Functionally Fixed and Functionally Unfixed Panels - Andrea Zittel , 1998 -- link -- Tritons - Rupert Bunny , circa 1890 -- link -- Landscape with Figure Blessing the Landscape - Sazhin Nikolay , 1988 -- link -- Wooded Landscape - Thorvald Erichsen , (1900) -- link -- Josef and his brothers - Gerbrand van den Eeckhout , 1657 -- link -- Young Woman with a Water Pitcher - Johannes Vermeer (Dutch, Delft 1632–1675 Delft) , ca. 1662 -- link -- Alice Nordin - Viggo Johansen , 1903 -- link -- Abbey among Oak Trees - Caspar David Friedrich , 1809/1810 -- link -- ​Today we went and looked at many of these artists in more detail.  They are great artists!!!

Top of the Day: The Purple Dress - William Glackens, born Philadelphia, PA 1870-died Westport, CT 1938 , 1908-1910 Today's Artwork: The Canoe on Epte - Claude Monet , circa 1890 -- link -- The Purple Dress - William Glackens, born Philadelphia, PA 1870-died Westport, CT 1938 , 1908-1910 -- link -- Detail of Ventania panel - Athos Bulcão , 1971 -- link -- Still glides the stream, and shall for ever glide' - Arthur Streeton , 1890 -- link -- Landscape with Rocks - Gustave Courbet , 1872 -- link -- Piccolo nero col rosa - Afro , 1963/1963 -- link -- Figure mitologiche - Tullio Garbari , 1930 -- link -- Romeo and Juliet - Ford Madox Brown , 1869/1870 -- link -- Dwight D. Eisenhower - Thomas Edgar Stephens , 1947 -- link -- Farmhouse in Nuenen - Vincent van Gogh , 1885 -- link -- Man sitting in the café - Vytautas Kasiulis (1918–1995) , 1950 -- link -- ​

Top of the Day: The Baptism of Christ - Joachim Patinir , 1510/1520 Today's Artwork: The hill of Montmartre with stone quarry - Vincent van Gogh , June 1886 - July 1886 -- link -- Beatrice meeting Dante at a marriage feast, denies him her salutation - Dante Gabriel Rossetti , 1852 -- link -- Cottages under the Tatra Mountains - Alexander ECKERDT , 1963 -- link -- Four Captive Demons -- link -- Five Recruits: Ummee Chund, Indur, Goolzaree, Bukhtawur and Juhaz - Artist: Attributed to the family of Ghulam Ali Khan , ca. 1815-1816 -- link -- Young Woman Seated in the Shade of a Tree - Antoine Cécile Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot , ca. 1830 -- link -- The Death of Priam - Antonio Canova , 1810/1820 -- link -- The Baptism of Christ - Joachim Patinir , 1510/1520 -- link -- Mother's Darling - Guy PÄ�ne du Bois , 1913/1913 -- link -- Perseus Freeing Andromeda - Peter Paul Rubens , 1638 -- link -- Henry Cabot Lodge - John Singer Sargent , 1890 -- link -- The Rue...

Top of the Day: The Sheepshearer (after Millet) - Vincent van Gogh , September 1889 - 1889 Today's Artwork: Island - Sidney Nolan , (1947) -- link -- Attention, Company! - William Michael Harnett , 1878 -- link -- Angel - Anita Malfatti , déc. 1920 -- link -- A View from Dosseringen near the Sortedam Lake Looking towards the Suburb Nørrebro outside Copenhagen - Christen Købke , 1838 -- link -- The Sheepshearer (after Millet) - Vincent van Gogh , September 1889 - 1889 -- link -- Haymaking - Leon-Augustin Lhermitte , 1844/1925 -- link -- Solitary Tree - Caspar David Friedrich , 1822 -- link -- Napoleon on the field of Wagram - Joseph Chabord  , 1810 -- link -- Self-Portrait - Carel Fabritius , circa 1645 -- link -- Portrait of Joseph Roulin - Vincent van Gogh , 1889 -- link -- ​

Top of the Day: My crown and sceptre - Thomas Cooper Gotch , 1891 Today's Artwork: Fishermen on Skagen Nordstrand. Summer evening - P.S. Krøyer , 1891 -- link -- Princess Mary, Daughter of Charles I - Anthony van Dyck , about 1637 -- link -- Afterglow (Summer evening) - Frederick McCUBBIN , 1912 -- link -- On stage: the miser - Assteas , -350 -- link -- The Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne - Alfred Sisley , 1872 -- link -- Patterdale landscape with cattle - John GLOVER , c.1833 -- link -- The Man With the Flower in His Mouth - An Act of Love and Life - Iberê Camargo , 1993 -- link -- Late Afternoon, New York, Winter - Frederick Childe Hassam , 1900 -- link -- Portrait of Alfonso d'Avalos, Marchese del Vasto, in Armor with a Page - Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) , probably January–February 1533 -- link -- Wooded hillside with a view of Bentheim Castle - Jacob van Ruisdael , 1655-1660 -- link -- We Have Crossed the Lake - Ian Woo , 2009 -- link -- Pontiac Cl...

Top of the Day: Theymoclea Throwing the Captain of Alexander the Great into the Well - Elisabetta Strani , 1659 Today's Artwork: Estació de França - Joan Colom Agustí , 1911 -- link -- Self-Portrait with Chinese Lantern Plant - Egon Schiele , 1912 -- link -- Old couple plucking gulls. Lars Gaihede and old Lene - Anna Ancher , 1883 -- link -- The Count's Court Jester - David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl , 1651 -- link -- Theymoclea Throwing the Captain of Alexander the Great into the Well - Elisabetta Strani , 1659 -- link -- Vocation of the Holy Apostles Peter and Andrew - Abadia Workshop , 1475/1499 -- link -- The Bridge at Le Pecq - André Derain (French, b.1880, d.1954) , 1904-1905 -- link -- Artist and Model - Liu Kang , 1954 -- link -- A Confraternity in Procession along the Calle Génova, Seville - Alfred Dehodencq , 1851 -- link -- Mount Olympus, Lake St Clair, Tasmania, the source of the Derwent - WC Piguenit , 1875 -- link -- Interior (Sisters) - Fritz v...

Top of the Day: Tamara - Jill Higginson , 2020 Today's Artwork: Canale dei Agni Santi, Campo San Sebastiano, Venice - Andrew Fisher Bunner -- link -- Dress - André Courrèges -- link -- View of Haarlem and the Haarlemmer Meer - Jan van Goyen , 1646 -- link -- Tamara - Jill Higginson , 2020 -- link -- ​

Top of the Day: The South Ledges, Appledore - Childe Hassam , 1913 Today's Artwork: Portrait Katharina von Bora - Lucas Cranach , 1529 -- link -- The South Ledges, Appledore - Childe Hassam , 1913 -- link -- Canvassing for a Vote - George Caleb Bingham , 1852 -- link -- Revolution - Edward Dwurnik , 1996 -- link -- The Battle of Lepanto - Andrea Michieli detto Vicentino , 1595 - 1605 -- link -- Studio portrait, Chelsea - Norah Simpson , 1915 -- link -- The Saint-Lazare Station - Claude Monet , 1877 -- link -- Pastoral Landscape - Claude Gellée (called Le Lorrain) , 1638 -- link -- A Storm on a Mediterranean Coast - Claude-Joseph Vernet , 1767 -- link -- Bottom of the Ravine - Paul Cézanne , c. 1879 -- link -- ​

Top of the Day: Musicians in the Orchestra (Portrait of Desire Dihau) - Edgar Degas Today's Artwork: Azulejos de residência na Gávea, Rio de Janeiro - Athos Bulcão , 1980 -- link -- The Crown of Flowers - Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot , c. 1865-1870 -- link -- Musicians in the Orchestra (Portrait of Desire Dihau) - Edgar Degas -- link -- Virtue and Nobility putting Ignorance to Flight - Tiepolo, Giambattista , c.1743 -- link -- Lady of Squire Williams House - Erastus Salisbury Field, born Leverett, MA 1805-died Plumtrees, MA 1900 , ca. 1829 -- link -- A Bolero Dancer - Antonio Cabral Bejarano , 1842 -- link -- Portrait of a Gentleman - Titian [Tiziano Vecellio] , 1561 -- link -- Muse on Pegasus - Odilon Redon , 1907/1910 -- link -- First News of the Battle of Lexington - William Tylee Ranney , 1847 -- link -- ​Today we took a look at: Remedios Varo - 112 artworks - painting (wikiart.org) .  Her art is very "out there", but fascinating.  Then we swi...

Today we explored the work of haute couture milliner (hat designer) Philip Treacy  He designed many of the grand hat that Isabella Blow, whose wonderful rich outfits we looked at last Thursday, wore. Katje asked if we could peruse his work & peruse we did! Philip Treacy working on a hat as Grace Jones patiently waits for the finish Philip Treacy's website -- link --  Philip Treacy Instagram with lots of his designs -- link --  Royal family hats -- link --  Met Museum Treacy Butterflies -- link --  Auction of a Treacy butterfly headdress -- link --  Butterfly headpieces -- link --  Luba spotted this unique design as we were looking through Philip's work. This butterfly hat looks like they're flying off the hat -- link --  Grace Jones & Philip Treacy (one of two hats is the main photo for the page today) -- link --  A plethora of really wild hats by Philip Treacy for late avant garde designer Alexander McQueen -- link -- 

Top of the Day: Idle Hours - H. Siddons Mowbray , 1895 Today's Artwork: Idle Hours - H. Siddons Mowbray , 1895 -- link -- 'Bahram Gur Slays the Rhino-Wolf', Folio 586r from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp - 'Abd al-'Aziz|Aqa Mirak|Abu'l Qasim Firdausi -- link -- Portrait of a Young Scholar - Jan van Scorel , 1531 -- link -- Portrait of Edward Shippen Burd of Philadelphia - Rembrandt Peale , ca. 1806-1808 -- link -- Melinois - Arsen Levonee , 2014 -- link -- Portrait of young Woman - Piero del Pollaiolo , Around 1470 -- link -- Still Life with Peaches, a Silver Goblet, Grapes, and Walnuts - Jean-Siméon Chardin , about 1759–1760 -- link -- The Hunt Breakfast - Carle (Charles André) Vanloo , ca. 1737 -- link -- Portrait of Rembrandt (1606-1669) with a Gorget - Rijn, Rembrandt van , after c. 1629 -- link -- ​

 We looked at two artists having nothing to do with each other except they were posted by my curator pal, the wonderful Joe Reorda!  Chen Danqing, Veil, 2017 Google Arts & Culture with a few Chen Danqing -- link --  ArtSpace has a couple of his fashion oriented work -- link --  Tang Contemporary Art Museum featuring Chen Danqing -- link --  YouTube video of Chen Danqing working -- link --  Will Barnet, Cat and Canary, 1977 Will Barnet likes Cats! -- link --  Will Barnet likes Cats A LOT! -- link --  Sooooo many Cats!!! -- link --  Woodcut ... Another Cat! -- link --