Art Detectives

Top of the Day: College of Animals , 1655 Today's Artwork: The Great Pine - Paul Cézanne , 1890 - 1896 -- link -- Christmas Morning, Breakfast - Horace Pippin (American, b.1888, d.1946) , 1945 -- link -- A Pensive Girl - COROT, Jean-Baptiste Camille , 1865/1870 -- link -- Still Life with Flask of Wine - Piero Marussig , c. 1930-35 -- link -- College of Animals , 1655 -- link -- Spring Rain - John Sloan , 1912/1912 -- link -- Life by the River - Liu Kang , 1975 -- link -- Pompeian bath - Niccolo Cecconi , post 1835 -- link -- In addition to these we also did a peek into Marsden Hartley.​

Top of the Day: Arrival of the Stagecoach - Carl Spitzweg , 1859 Today's Artwork: Arrival of the Stagecoach - Carl Spitzweg , 1859 -- link -- Spring - Thomas Wilmer Dewing , 1890 -- link -- No title - Per Kirkeby , 2006 -- link -- Etaples Fisher Folk - Henry Ossawa Tanner , 1923/1923 -- link -- Cascade in a Rocky Landscape - Courbet, Gustave , about 1872-1874 -- link -- Princess Eudoxia before the Tomb of Saint Stephen - Vergós Group , 1495-1500 -- link -- Dutch landscape - Eugen Jettel , 1874 -- link -- Etter badet - Auguste Renoir , ca. 1886 -- link -- Still Life with Apricotes and Butterflies - Jan Mortel , 1683 -- link -- ​

Top of the Day: Still Life - Qwek Wee Chiew , c. 1970s Today's Artwork: Rocks in the Forest - Paul Cézanne , 1890s -- link -- Admiral Reuter - Karel van Mander III , 1656 -- link -- The Cigar makers - Gonzalo Bilbao , 1915/1915 -- link -- Hudson River Series: Deer - Don Nice (b. 1932) , 1975 -- link -- Cain killing Abel - Adriaen de Vries , 1622 -- link -- Still Life - Qwek Wee Chiew , c. 1970s -- link -- Landscape with Dancing Satyrs and Nymphs - Claude Lorrain , 1646 -- link -- The Excursionist - Pierre-Auguste Renoir , circa 1888 -- link -- Still Life with Turkey Pie - Pieter Claesz , 1627 -- link -- Catani Gardens - Sidney Nolan , 1945 -- link -- Farmhouse at Balestrand - Amaldus Nielsen , 1865 -- link -- The still life shown isn't one of the crazy ones...but it is so soothing I had to select it.  Not only did we see the still lifes listed here....we saw some CRAZY ones in the museums when we wandered around.

A Dance Pattern, 2002    Google Arts & Culture link with 191 pieces of art -- link --  Article about Katya Medvedeva -- link --  Artist's life & statement (found by Michelle!) -- link --  Website (found by Michelle) -- link -- 

Top of the Day: The Marchesa Casati - Augustus Edwin John , 1919 Today's Artwork: Winter Landscape - Joose de Momper II (the Younger) , circa 1625 - 1630 -- link -- The Pink Peach Tree - Vincent van Gogh , 1888 -- link -- A Young Man - Piero di Cosimo , c.1500 -- link -- Red Sunset on the Dnieper - Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi , 1905–8 -- link -- Red Sunset on the Dnieper - Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi , 1905–8 -- link -- Mrs. George Watson - John Singleton Copley , 1765 -- link -- Folio of Calligraphy - Calligrapher: Mir Ali Haravi , 16th century -- link -- Oak Tree by the Elbe in Winter - Johan Christian Dahl , 1853 -- link -- Rooftops in the Snow (snow effect) - Gustave Caillebotte , 1878 -- link -- Seacost Bindy in Logonna Daoulas - Eugèn Boudin , 1871 -- link -- The Marchesa Casati - Augustus Edwin John , 1919 -- link -- A little tidbit about the Marchesa Casati....she died MASSIVELY in debt.​

Top of the Day: The Green Domino - Albert Bloch , 1913 Today's Artwork: Mariana - Sir John Everett Millais , 1851 -- link -- The Pond - Paul Cézanne , about 1877 - 1879 -- link -- Portrait of a Woman - Italian , c. 1575 - 1580 -- link -- Patterdale landscape with cattle - John GLOVER , c.1833 -- link -- The Green Domino - Albert Bloch , 1913 -- link -- Glass and Water Bottle - Juan Gris , 1917 -- link -- The Rebuke of Adam and Eve - Charles Joseph Natoire , 1740 -- link -- A Sani Festival - Yao Zhonghua , 1963 -- link -- The Dice Players - Simó Gómez , 1874 -- link -- Lady with a book of Petrarch's rhyme - Andrea del Sarto , 1528 -- link -- Building Site with Willows - Adolph Menzel , 1846 -- link -- ​

Top of the Day: Portrait of Gabriel Bernard de Rieux - Maurice-Quentin de La Tour , 1739–1741 Today's Artwork: New York Pavements - Edward Hopper , 1924/1925 -- link -- James II as Duke of York - Greenhill, John , Early 1660s -- link -- Sand Miners - Miloš Jiránek , 1910 -- link -- The Foolish Old Man Moves a Mountain - Xu Beihong , 1940 -- link -- Battle Between Carnival and Lent - Molenaer, Jan Miense , about 1633-1634 -- link -- Portrait of Gabriel Bernard de Rieux - Maurice-Quentin de La Tour , 1739–1741 -- link -- Meghdoot - Gulammohammed Sheikh , 1988/1989 -- link -- ​We had a fascinating day looking at the Portrait of Gabriel Bernard de Rieux,.  Go to the picture and then down below, there is information on how the artist used multiple sheets of paper to make this pastel painting.

Top of the Day: Portrait of Charles-Marie de la Condamine - Maurice-Quentin de La Tour , 1753/1753 Today's Artwork: The Bedroom - Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890) , 1889 -- link -- David with the Head of Goliath - Bernardo Strozzi (Italian, b.1581, d.1644) , Circa 1636 -- link -- At Lilydale - Louis Buvelot , 1870 -- link -- Rest - Isidre Nonell , 1903-1904 -- link -- The Spring - Jacob Grimmer , ca. 1577 -- link -- John Fitzgerald Kennedy - Aaron Shikler , 1970 -- link -- Spanish Blacksmiths - Ernst Josephson , 1882 -- link -- Houses at Vaugirard - Paul Gauguin , 1880 -- link -- The Ill-matched Couple - Lucas Cranach the Elder , ca. 1520–1522 -- link -- Portrait of Charles-Marie de la Condamine - Maurice-Quentin de La Tour , 1753/1753 -- link -- The bath of Diana, Van Diemen's Land - John GLOVER , 1837 -- link -- 'The Kitchen Maid' - Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn , 1651 -- link -- Granada landscape from la Vega - Marín Garés, I. , 1900 -...

Top of the Day: The Everlasting Bridegroom - Carl Spitzweg , ca. 1858-1860 Today's Artwork: Portrait of Silvio Palazzi - Ugo Celada da Virgilio , 1932 -- link -- The Everlasting Bridegroom - Carl Spitzweg , ca. 1858-1860 -- link -- Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni - Francesco Trevisani , 1700/1700 -- link -- Old Woman on a White Stool - Neganov Andrey , 2001 -- link -- Mistress of the fireplace. Left part (from triptych 'In the ancestor`s Land') - Osipov Afanasii Nikolaevich , 1971/1971 -- link -- Charles I (1600–1649), King of England - Daniël Mijtens , 1629 -- link -- Kelly - Sidney Nolan , 1946 -- link -- Self-Portrait - Christen Købke , About 1833 -- link -- Alleluia - Thomas Cooper Gotch , 1896 -- link -- Daisies, Arles - Vincent van Gogh , 1888 -- link -- The Outlier - Frederic Sackrider Remington , 1909 -- link -- Ricordo di Tivoli - Anselm Feuerbach , 1866/1867 -- link -- The triumph of Apolo - Urbanus Leyniers, Jan Van Orley, and Augustin Copp...

Top of the Day: Morning, Looking East Over the Hudson Valley from the Catskill Mountains - Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900) , 1848 Today's Artwork: Fanatics of Tangier - Eugène Delacroix , 1837/1838 -- link -- Black Cross, New Mexico - Georgia O’Keeffe (American, 1887-1986) , 1929 -- link -- The Coffee Sorters - Isaac Israëls , 1886 -- link -- Morning, Looking East Over the Hudson Valley from the Catskill Mountains - Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900) , 1848 -- link -- The hill of Montmartre with stone quarry - Vincent van Gogh , June 1886 - July 1886 -- link -- La Tirana - Francisco de Goya , 1792 -- link -- Portrait of an Old Man - Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn , 1645 -- link -- Jesús descendido de la Cruz (Jesus down from the Cross - Pedro de Campaña , 1560/1560 -- link -- Charles IV - Francisco de Goya y Lucientes , 1789 -- link -- The Punishment of the Forger - Paolo Caliari detto Veronese , c. 1555 -- link -- One Hundred Famous Views of Edo “Kiyomizu H...

Top of the Day: Three Smiths at Hornbæk, Denmark - Peder Severin Krøyer , 1877 Today's Artwork: Three Smiths at Hornbæk, Denmark - Peder Severin Krøyer , 1877 -- link -- Prayer in the Mosque - Jean-Léon Gérôme , 1871 -- link -- Portrait of Modesto Sánchez Ortiz - Santiago Rusiñol i Prats , 1897 -- link -- The Swing - Auguste Renoir , 1876 -- link -- Fiord Landscape - Jens Søndergaard , 1945 -- link -- Hillary Rodham Clinton - Ginny Stanford , 2006 -- link -- Peasant girl - Eugenio Hermoso Martínez , 1904/1904 -- link -- Schloss Kammer on Lake Attersee III - Gustav Klimt , 1909/1910 -- link -- The Victorian Chair - Childe Hassam , 1906 -- link -- Points - Wassily Kandinsky , 1920 -- link -- Resting - Amrita Sher-Gil , 1940 -- link -- ​

Top of the Day: Hunter by the lake - Vytautas Kasiulis (1918–1995) , 1960s Today's Artwork: Swamp landscape - Ladislav Mednyánszky , 1880 - 1900 -- link -- Apollo - Artus Quellinus , 1651 -- link -- Portrait of Mrs. V, Mrs. Herman Duryea - John White Alexander , 1898 -- link -- King João V - Carlos Antonio Leoni , 18th century -- link -- Krumau - Crescent of Houses (The Small City V) (Krumau Hauserbogen (die Kleine Stadt V)) - Egon Schiele , 1915 -- link -- Low Tide, Riverside Yacht Club - Theodore Robinson , 1894 -- link -- Art For Sale - Ostretzov Georgiy , 2011 -- link -- Hunter by the lake - Vytautas Kasiulis (1918–1995) , 1960s -- link -- Lucy Ebberton - Knapton, George , c.1745-50 -- link -- Boyarina Morozova - Vasily Surikov , 1887 -- link -- ​

Top of the Day: A Sailing Party (Going for a Sail) - Edward H. Potthast (American, b.1857, d.1927) , Circa 1924 Today's Artwork: Still Life with Oysters, a Rummer, a Lemon and a Silver Bowl - Willem Claesz. Heda , 1634 -- link -- The Neophyte (First Experience of the Monastery) - Gustave Dore , ca.1866-68 -- link -- Portrait of Peter III - Aleksey Antropov , 1762 -- link -- Shepherd Tending His Flock - Jean-François Millet , early 1860s -- link -- Dance of love (rasa lila) - Unknown , 19th century -- link -- Woman reading by a window - Jacob Sømme , 1890 -- link -- Vase with Flowers - Ruysch, Rachel , 1700 -- link -- Study - Arcadi Mas i Fondevila , Rome, 1878 -- link -- Winter at the Sognefjord - Johan Christian Dahl , Februar 1827 -- link -- Concord - Antonio Vassillacchi detto Aliense , 1585 -- link -- Christ as the Suffering Redeemer - Andrea Mantegna , 1495-1500 -- link -- Diane and Endymion - Pier Francesco Mola , 1660 circa -- link -- At the Mi...

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