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Whistler

Henry Clay Frick and his collection

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Controversial and an ardent anti-unionist, Frick was an eclectic collector of art. Three Vermeers, Rembrandt, Goya, Renoir, and Whistler are among its treasures.

December 2, 2019 General, Life, Painting

A Song at Twilight: Paintings of John Atkinson Grimshaw 2

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He travelled further afield in the 1880s, focussing on his nocturnes and paintings of twilight, which retain their fine detail.

November 22, 2019 General, Life, Painting

A Song at Twilight: Paintings of John Atkinson Grimshaw 1

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A painter of nocturnes greater than Whistler, he developed a great love for night scenes, and was commercially successful.

November 21, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Misfit: Henri Fantin-Latour 1 First flowers

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Not an Impressionist by any means, he was a close friend of Whistler and Manet, who painted some of the major group portraits of the late 1800s.

June 14, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Pigment: The first modern pigment, Prussian Blue

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For once the name is accurate: it originated in the Prussian Empire around 1704, and by 1730 had established itself as a standard if not entirely reliable pigment. Watteau, Canaletto, Hogarth, Blake, Monet, and van Gogh all used it.

May 4, 2018 General, Life, Painting, Technology

It takes two: The model and the artist

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We don’t know their names as well, but we know the faces and bodies of those who model for artists. They achieve some kind of immortality.

January 20, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Loving Beauty: Gustav Klimt, 2, portraits and vacations

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A portrait of a lasting friend and patron, drawings of the female form, and some strangely restrained landscapes from summer holidays. His style evolves.

January 9, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Coast: Scottish seas by William McTaggart

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He kept returning to the coast, and continued to paint its seasons and moods, its fury and its peace.

September 13, 2017 General, Life, Painting

Charles-François Daubigny: the first Impressionist? 2

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Not only did he help advance the mainstream Impressionists and their careers, but he led the way in his paintings. Happy 200th birthday!

February 15, 2017 General, Painting

Movement in Painting: migrant artists

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Many of the great painters have been migrants. Here are examples from Canaletto to Sargent. Suppress migration, and art will be stifled.

December 18, 2016 General, Life, Painting

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