"Infantry" 1946
Alex Colville (1920 - 2013)
Mr. Colville said he modeled the lead soldier's hands after his own, and the face after his father's.
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"Infantry" 1946
Alex Colville (1920 - 2013)
Mr. Colville said he modeled the lead soldier's hands after his own, and the face after his father's.
"Flood" 1938
lithographer Frank Cassara (1913 - 1971)
#art #artlover #lithograph #flood #FrankCassara
"WTH? AC running in March?" Roman *hates* AC!
If Not, Not 1975 R.B. Kitaj "T.S. Eliot’s poem The Waste Land famously realized in his masterpiece, a visual allegory of poem & Holocaust. Auschwitz gatehouse looming over desolate 'waste' landscape. Portrait of Eliot-lower-left corner, hearing aid & gray suit supported by a woman." #art #RBKitaj
"Italian Store in the Ward" 1922.
Canadian artist Lawren S. Harris (Canadian 1885–1970)
Moses! I have one coat and it's 10+ years! SAFE
Key & Window -Happy Birthday Robert Vickery 1926-2011!
"Robert Vickery, MA based artist & author specialized in the ancient medium of egg tempera. His paintings are surreal dreamlike visions of sunset bicycle shadows, nuns in front of mural-painted brick walls & children playing." #art #artlover
Fur Collar/Baskerville Portrait 1925 Ivan Le Lorraine Albright 1897-1983 "Themes of works: death, life, spiritual vs physical & effects of time. Titles were complex. He wouldn't name a painting until complete at which time he would come up with several possibilities before deciding. #art #artlover
A bit of yellow for me! Love yellow.
"Black Windows 2" 2017
Danish artist Kenneth Blom (b. 1967)
The Roc’s Egg 1868
Happy Birthday Elihu Vedder 1836–1923 "Painting shows scene from legend of Sinbad the sailor. On his 2nd voyage he is abandoned on island with roc eggs. Rocs: legendary huge birds. Sailors cook eggs on fire. He uses a roc to obtain diamonds before going to Baghdad." #art #Sinbad
Flower Garden & Bungalow, Bermuda (1899)
Happy Birthday to Winslow Homer (1836 - 1910)!
#WinslowHomer #art #artlover #watercolor #Bermuda
"The Tancarville Bridge" (Normandy France) 2024
Swiss/French artist Jurg Kreienbuhl (1932 - 2007)
"Kreienbuhl's work is uncompromising realism. Willing to show the reality in the raw, he made himself the witness or the chronicler of the end times." #art #painting #artlover #cowart
Eleven years ago, Roman was a babycat and still mostly white except for his face. But he was in Winter Survival mode for sure.
#cat #cats #catsky #catsofbluesky #catpics #catlover #catlove #BlueSkyCats #petsofbluesky #photography #petpics
Happy Birthday Nina Hamnett 1917 by Roger Fry Her dress designed by Vanessa Bell.
"Hamnett died 1956 -complications after falling from a window, impaled on a fence 40 feet below. Debate has always been: Suicide attempt? A drunken accident? Last words 'Why don't they let me die?'" #art #impaled
🐠🍤Roman says Good Night, kitty cats🐠🍤
#cats #catlovers #catsofbluesky #pets
“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight."
Let Sleeping Dogs Lie 1979 Happy Birthday painter, sculptor Roy De Forest! 1930-2007 "‘Let Sleeping Dogs Lie’ reminiscent of a Chagall dreamscape. De Forest called art 'one of the last strongholds of magic'; his colored & fantasy worlds as unknowable though hauntingly familiar." #art #artlover #dogs
Let Sleeping Dogs Lie 1979 Happy Birthday painter, sculptor Roy De Forest! 1930-2007 "‘Let Sleeping Dogs Lie’ reminiscent of a Chagall dreamscape. De Forest called art 'one of the last strongholds of magic'; his colored & fantasy worlds as unknowable though hauntingly familiar." #art #artlover #dogs
Just love this so much!
Winter Eastern Townships *Phillip Surrey 1910-1990 "A child Surrey lived at Raffles Hotel Singapore, Grand Hotel Calcutta. Known at prep school as Surrey boy, stranger, lonely exotic; had ridden camels&elephants, walked with pet orangutang, talked with snake charmers." #art #artlover #PhillipSurrey
Posted this yesterday, but forgot to post the painting!
☀️I know I’d feel wonderful if this was in my living room☀️
“The Sunny Street” 1922
Swiss artist Félix Vallotton
#art #FelixVallotton #artlover #painters
"Still Life" George Schrimpf 1889-1938
"Died from heart failure just months after he was fired from professorship by the Nazi regime. Late works such as Am Morgen 1938 show intensified melancholy. 'Tremendous silence' in last works shift from utopian calm to oppressive isolation." #StillLife #art
Cat at Window - 1928
Artist Mabel Dwight (1875/1876 - 1955)
Today is her birthday!
#art #MabelDwight #cats #catlover
'Le Chapeau Bleu' c 1910–12.
Happy Birthday to Dutch-French painter Kees van Dongen! 1877-1968 This wonderful woman is his 1st wife Augusta Preitinger. "Woman dominated van Dongen's art at this time. However commissioned portraits were still rare & he favored portraits of friends." #art #vanDongen
I wish for pink, but never really acquire much.
Then I see painting with a hint (or more) of pink and I'm in a dither. A DITHER for pink.
Greek artist George Rorris
Born in the village of Kosmas of Kynouria - 1963
#art #artlover #GeorgeRorris #pinkpainting
Conversation Pieces Night" 1990-91
William Utermohlen 1933-2007
"American figurative artist known for his late-period self-portraits completed after his diagnosis of probable Alzheimer's disease. He was diagnosed in 1995, having had progressive memory loss since 1991." #art #Utermohlen #Alzheimer's
Tinus van Doorn 1905-1940 "1933 van Doorn moved to Achterhoek near the German border. Depressed about the political situation, knowing he wouldn't be allowed to paint as he pleased under Nazis, moved to Belgium, 1938. 1940 German army occupied Brussels he &his wife committed suicide." #art #painters
"a pale desert of gigantic water-lilies. Sigh one unto the other in that solitude, stretch towards the heaven their long & ghastly necks, nod to & fro their everlasting heads. Indistinct murmur comes out from among them like the rushing of subterrain water; they sigh one unto the other." #Poe #lily
🌞🥶the struggle is real🥶🌞
#wintersun #WV #photograph #CountryRoads