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Painting the Grain Harvest: Sheaves, stooks and threshing

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The harvest painted by Anna Ancher, Lhermitte, Adrian Stokes, Nikolai Astrup, John Linnell, Félix Vallotton, PS Krøyer, Gérôme, and others.

August 24, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Strolling the Valèncian shore with Sorolla’s paintings: 2 Ladies

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In the early years of the 20th century, Sorolla started painting well-dressed young ladies strolling along the beaches of his native València.

March 9, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Interiors by Design: The silence of Vilhelm Hammershøi

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Forgotten until revived in 2005, his paintings now fetch millions. Hauntingly empty, almost monochrome, and often with his wife facing away from the viewer.

February 13, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 165 Group portraits B

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More from Raphael, Reynolds, and the artist’s family of Frédéric Bazille, Lovis Corinth and others. All you need to know is who, where and when.

October 9, 2024 General, Life, Painting

The Real Country: 5 Threshing and processing grain

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Threshing cut cereal using flails, horses towing a roller, oxen trampling the corn, a sledge, a hand-cranked machine, and a large threshing machine. With Monet’s grainstacks.

September 19, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Paintings from Pont-Aven: 1860 to Gauguin

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This artist’s colony developed in the 1860s, and soon became popular with Americans studying in Paris. It attained fame with Paul Gauguin, who first visited in 1886.

January 6, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Midsummer in Paintings: Midsummer Eve

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Strictly the Eve of Saint the Baptist, it’s marked in the Nordic and other European countries with bonfires, feasting and dancing.

June 17, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Dressed for the beach 1892-1922

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In the early 20th century, some bathers opted for trunks, a few still bathed naked in seclusion, and modern clothes broke out on occasion.

June 11, 2023 General, Life, Painting

A weekend with painters in Skagen 2

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With PS Krøyer, Laurits Tuxen, and a British visitor to the artists’ colony at Skagen, Adrian Stokes.

May 14, 2023 General, Life, Painting

In memoriam Léon Bonnat: Teacher

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The art of Thomas Eakins, Gustave Caillebotte, John Singer Sargent, Harriet Backer, Toulouse-Lautrec, Edvard Munch and others were enabled by Bonnat.

September 8, 2022 General, Life, Painting

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