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Carroll Beckwith’s paintings 2: The Spanish dancer and a jealous husband

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Nesbit’s new husband shot dead the acclaimed architect Stanford White in Madison Square Garden, in a fit of insane jealousy.

June 12, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Carroll Beckwith’s paintings 1: Paris and the under-age model

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By 1901, he was fast approaching his fifties and rather staid. This portrait of Evelyn Nesbit was quite out of character, and nearly got him killed later.

June 11, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Gorgeous Landscapes 2: Lessing to Hodler

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More gorges from Edward Lear, Frederic Church, Signac, Thoma, Hodler and others, from the Alps to Iran.

June 5, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Landscape Composition: 13 Little people

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Staffage – people, animals, birds, carts and ships – make a big difference to many landscape paintings. Have you met the Wanderer too?

November 24, 2021 General, Life, Painting

River in Flight: paintings of waterfalls 2

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From Church’s view of Niagara, Bierstadt in the Sierra Nevada, to two early landscape views of Ferdinand Hodler.

July 25, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Painting Within Tent: Albert Bierstadt in the Rockies 1

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Trained in Düsseldorf, he undertook two major trips to the Rocky Mountains, in 1859 and 1863, and painted awe-inspiring views of the peaks and valleys.

June 2, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Painting Within Tent: Frederic Edwin Church in detail 2

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His ‘Heart of the Andes’ was viewed by more than 12,000 when shown in New York. Many of them brought opera glasses to see its fine details.

May 27, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Painting Within Tent: Frederic Edwin Church in detail 1

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His working methods were traditional, in making copious drawings and oil sketches in front of the motif, then composing those into large finished oil paintings.

May 26, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Painting Within Tent: Edward Lear in the Land of the Jumblies 2

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Edward Lear paints his visits to Palestine, Greece, Albania, and India, including a breathtaking view of Kangchenjunga from Darjeeling.

May 20, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Painting Within Tent: Marianne North’s plants of the world 1

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After a series of family tragedies, she decided to travel the world painting its plants. Now one of the most celebrated woman artists of the age.

April 28, 2021 General, Life, Painting

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