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Leaf peeping: painting autumn 1900-1945

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Paintings by Paul Signac, Evelyn De Morgan, Marsden Hartley, Tom Thomson, Egon Schiele, Julian Onderdonk, Paul Nash, and others.

October 4, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Leaf peeping: painting autumn 1650-1899

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Paintings by Paulus Potter, George Inness, Claude Monet, Winslow Homer, Alfred Sisley, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, William Merritt Chase, and others.

October 3, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Portraits of trees: Pine

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Scots pines from Northern Europe, a huge umbrella pine in Saint-Tropez, and maritime pines from the Mediterranean coast, painted by Théo van Rysselberghe among others.

September 30, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Painting la Manche: le Havre to Ouessant

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Paintings by Paul Signac, Claude Monet, Félix Vallotton, Millet, John Singer Sargent, Maurice Denis, and others.

September 20, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Anarchy in paint: the politics of Neo-Impressionism 2

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Neo-Impressionist and their anarchism from 1890, including Maximilien Luce, Paul Signac, Henri-Edmond Cross and Théo van Rysselberghe.

September 13, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Anarchy in paint: the politics of Neo-Impressionism 1

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The close group of Neo-Impressionists were also anarchists. This traces their politics in paintings by Paul Signac and Camille Pissarro, including a portrait of Félix Fénéon, later suspected of bombing a restaurant.

September 12, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Brushstrokes: Henri-Edmond Cross

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Initially his Pointillist views used fine dots and contrasting colours. Over time he explored limited palettes, increasing size of marks, and smooth transitions.

September 2, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Brushstrokes: Paul Signac

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Initially he applied coarser dots on areas of more even colour, used simultaneous colour contrast, then his blobs grew to become patches of paint resembling the tesserae of mosaics.

August 20, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Medium and Message: Mosaic

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Popular in ancient times, those in Ravenna inspired Klimt. Luc-Olivier Merson and Elihu Vedder created their own, Sichulski imitated them, and Signac used similar patches of paint.

April 14, 2026 General, Life, Painting

On Reflection: Divisionism

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Technically challenging for painstaking Divisionist techniques, those who chose to depict reflections used studies to help, and Seurat was generally optically faithful. But the best of all was Théo van Rysselberghe.

April 9, 2026 General, Life, Painting

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