A fascinating and eclectic year in art, as the Masters of the 19th century handed over to the tigers of the 20th.
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Towards the end of his career, he campaigned for students at the Royal Academy Schools to have proper life classes with nude models. And a nude got him into trouble.
After 1900, New York City became a more dominant theme in the works of major East Coast artists.
How did great painters of the East Coast paint the cities in which they lived and worked?
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.
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.
It has been claimed that she “gave up painting” after marrying her more famous husband in 1884. Did his best student really stop painting like that?
With Chase, colleagues, and their students, he laid the foundations of American painting in the 20th century. But the nudes got him into trouble!
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