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Fog on the Thames 1844-1899

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Paintings starting with JMW Turner in 1844, through Monet in 1871, Winslow Homer, Jules Bastien-Lepage, Tom Roberts, Pissarro, and Childe Hassam.

December 6, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Medium and Message: Watercolour on paper

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Huge paintings using opaque watercolour paint, layered combinations of transparent and opaque, scratching out, wax resist and even grains of salt.

August 12, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Painting the summer storm 2

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Summer storms from Constant Troyon, Albert Bierstadt, Volodymyr Orlovsky, Winslow Homer, Gustav Klimt, Pierre Bonnard and others.

August 10, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Dressed for a Dip: paintings of beach dress to 1885

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Our ancestors went to the beach and swam there for health. They soon wrapped themselves up in clothing, though, and only in late 19th century dared to dress for the beach.

July 26, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 179 Knitting, poverty

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Knitting shepherdesses, peasant girls, smallholders, a goose girl, fisher girls, by Millet, Breton, LA Ring, Winslow Homer and others.

December 4, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 174 Butterfly, narrative and symbolic

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Associated with the fire of the underworld, painted into life by Jupiter, attracted by Psyche, hunted on expeditions, in vanitas paintings, or just for their beauty.

November 19, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Gloucester Harbour: 1850-1910

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Paintings by Fitz Henry Lane, Winslow Homer, Willard Metcalf, Frederick Childe Hassam, and Frank Duveneck.

November 2, 2024 General, Life, Painting

The Coast of Maine: 19th century paintings

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Paintings from 1845 by Thomas Cole, Frederic Edwin Church his pupil, Winslow Homer, and other American artists from the 18th century.

September 28, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Back to school: paintings 1860-1907

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Led by progressive administrations in the French Republic and Scotland, secular classes improved discipline and improved their pupils.

September 1, 2024 General, Life, Painting

A to Z of Landscapes: X marks the spot

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Sixteen views of the River Thames and Houses of Parliament, painted between 1745 and 2006, showing where they were painted from.

July 26, 2024 General, Life, Painting

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