From Albert Bierstadt’s visit to the Farallon Islands in 1872, to George Bellows in 1917, with paintings from Mannheim, Granville Redmond and others in between.
history of painting
In each of his interiors from the late 1870s to the early 20th century, there’s something not quite right, starting with a painting hanging at an odd angle.
Knitting shepherdesses, peasant girls, smallholders, a goose girl, fisher girls, by Millet, Breton, LA Ring, Winslow Homer and others.
Knitting and crochet as a sign of history, Welsh identity, the bored chaperone, the height of a party, or a peaceful and productive pastime.
Apollo’s discus strikes Hyacinthus in the face. As he dies from that wound, his spilt blood is turned into the hyacinth flower in his memory.
Interior design by the wives of Carl Larsson (Sweden), LA Ring (Denmark), Nikolai Astrup (Norwegian) and others.
William Penn’s treaty, Peace and War just before the Franco-Prussian War, its Armistice in 1871, and finally paintings of the end of the First World War and the original Cenotaph in London.
Allegories using classical deities, by Tintoretto and Rubens. Accounts of how the Sabine women brought peace to Rome, and peace treaties of Charlemagne and Barbarossa.
Stories of the origin of the Italian pine and cypress trees, and a far more dubious account of Jupiter’s abduction that’s found in an advert for beer.
Beauties by William Holman Hunt, Gustave Doré, Bruno Liljefors, Vincent van Gogh, Odilon Redon, Richard Dadd and others.
The Eclectic Light Company 