A major project which he eventually abandoned, the remaining studies might today appear cryptic. There is more than one story behind them.
Category Archive: Painting
After 1900, New York City became a more dominant theme in the works of major East Coast artists.
Time to add a second narrative thread based on an ‘authority’, and link it in with the main spine.
How did great painters of the East Coast paint the cities in which they lived and worked?
Uniquely, he worked as a surgeon before becoming a full-time painter. He eventually became Slade Professor too.
From success to success, she painted the President’s family, and France’s elder statesman and a good friend of Monet.
Her portraits are of the New Woman: well-educated, thoughtful, and increasingly in control of their own destiny.
Why did he paint so many still lifes? And why did so many of them feature fresh fish?
In the 1870s, four major artists painted scenes of rowing and similar watersports – apparently independently.
Their working methods could hardly have been more different, but they shared a common interest.
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