Parrots in still life paintings from the Dutch Golden Age, accompanying a Turkish page, in English summer, or passing Pierre Bonnard in Saint Tropez.
Tonks
Parrots as extras in myths, witnessing Eve taking the apple from the serpent, and as companions to a succession of beautiful women.
His major commission of the First World War, ‘Gassed’, and final large masterpieces for the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
Originally the toilet, this is where ladies prepared themselves for the day. Paintings from Hogarth. Degas, Vallotton, Pierre Bonnard and others.
Fireplaces and hearths, from a small town in the country, a dozing fisherman’s wife copied by Vincent van Gogh, a fire in a studio, and those in suburban homes.
Two paintings by van Gogh, and others show open fires and stoves heating homes and other places up to 1930.
Twentieth-century paintings of Spring, from Renoir to Grant Wood, with the help of Bonnard, JW Waterhouse, Granville Redmond and others.
From 1875 on, paintings of surgical procedures, heroes of medical and surgical advances, and the new clinical look of hospitals.
List of all the artists and subjects covered in this series, with brief summary of each artist, sample painting, and links.
Initiated by Whistler from 1860, it became popular with artists returning from training in Paris in the 1880s, then Sargent, Sickert, and teachers Tonks and Clausen.
