Art Detectives

Top of the Day: The Shoppers - William James Glockens , 1907-08 Today's Artwork: The Shoppers - William James Glockens , 1907-08 -- link -- Travels in the 16days of peanut butter(detail) - Park Mi-gyeong , 2011 -- link -- Portrait of dom Pedro II - Félix Émile Taunay , 1837 -- link -- Stetind in Fog - Peder Balke , 1864 -- link -- Demon (sitting) - Mikhail Vrubel , 1890 -- link -- Prince Christian of Denmark - Michael Ancher , 1895 -- link -- Retrato de d. Teresa Cristina - Josephine Houssay -- link -- St. Claire - Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli , ca. 1530 -- link -- Untitled - Athos Bulcão , 1974 -- link -- Still Life - Claude Monet , c. 1872 -- link -- Cardsharps and Fortune Teller - Nicolas Regnier , ca. 1623–1626 -- link -- Saint Bruno of Cologne visits Pope Urban II - Zurbarán , 1655/1655 -- link -- ​

Leslie Anne took some wonderful photos of the MC Escher exhibit when it toured Florida.  We looked at some of her great photos and researched each photo as we went. We will revisit another time to look at the rest of her great pics.   

Top of the Day: Market Scene, Northern Town - LS Lowry , 1939 - 1939 Today's Artwork: Spring Evening - Arnold Böcklin , 1879 -- link -- The Canal, Brittany Landscape - La Fresnaye, Roger de , 1909 -- link -- In the Arabah Desert - Eugen Bracht , 1882 -- link -- Tronie' of a Man with a Feathered Beret - Rijn, Rembrandt van , c. 1635 -1640 -- link -- Karampot (Meagre) - Alfredo Manrique , c. 1978 -- link -- The Evangelist Marco - Andrea Michieli detto Vicentino , 1542 - 1617 -- link -- Market Scene, Northern Town - LS Lowry , 1939 - 1939 -- link -- The Flax Barn at Laren - Max Liebermann , 1887 -- link -- Hurry to the band - Kurchatova Zinaida Kapitonovna , 1983/1983 -- link -- Portrait of D. Pedro II - François René Moreaux (Atribuído) , 1848 - 1850 -- link -- Spring in Vethuil - Claude Monet , 1880 -- link -- A Young Lady Aged 21, Possibly Helena Snakenborg, Later Marchioness of Northampton - British School 16th century , 1569 -- link -- Portrait o...

Top of the Day: PH-343 - Clyfford Still , 1937 Today's Artwork: Nasturtiums - E Phillips Fox , circa 1912 -- link -- The Birth of the Virgin Mary - Giovanni Francesco Caroto , c. 1550 -- link -- PH-343 - Clyfford Still , 1937 -- link -- Susan Walker Morse (The Muse) - Samuel F. B. Morse , ca. 1836–37 -- link -- ​

Top of the Day: Cat Knocking over a Vase of Flowers - Abraham Mignon , 1806 Today's Artwork: Cat Knocking over a Vase of Flowers - Abraham Mignon , 1806 -- link -- Girl in the field (back) - Arcadi Mas i Fondevila , 1900 -- link -- The wreck of 'George the Third' - Knut BULL , 1850 -- link -- Three Miracles of Saint Zenobius - Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi) , 1500–1510 -- link -- The Little Maure Mountains - Henri-Edmond Cross , 1909 -- link -- A Calm at a Mediterranean Port - Claude-Joseph Vernet , 1770 -- link -- Vase decorated with woman's figure - Antoni Serra , Around 1901-1907 -- link -- ​We did a deep dive on Henri-Edmond Cross today.

Top of the Day: Golden autumn. Slobodka - Isaac Levitan , 1889 Today's Artwork: Golden autumn. Slobodka - Isaac Levitan , 1889 -- link -- Friends at dinner - Abelló Prat, Joan , 1951 -- link -- Bamboo Town and Anchorage at Whampoa Island - Gift of Mr. Antony J. Hardy , 1860 -- link -- Surrender of a Confederate Soldier - Julian Scott, born Johnson, VT 1846-died Plainfield, NJ 1901 , 1873 -- link -- Thomson Red Sky - Douglas Coupland , 2010 -- link -- Wall - Lee, Suk-ju , 1977 -- link -- John Jacob Astor - John Wesley Jarvis , c. 1825 -- link -- Amphion - Artus Quellinus , 1655 -- link -- General Andrew Jackson - John Wesley Jarvis , ca. 1819 -- link -- The Vagrants - Frederick Walker , 1868 -- link -- Vétheuil - Claude Monet , 1902 -- link -- Susana y los viejos - Pedro Pablo Rubens , 1609/1610 -- link -- Saint Carlo Borromeo Receiving the Oblates - Alessandro Magnasco , 1667 - 1745 -- link -- ​

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 -...