Street to Mbari by Jacob Lawrence https://www.nga.gov/artworks/79459-street-mbari
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000, p. 156, no. P64-03.
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000, p. 156, no. P64-03.
The crest bearing three cows’ heads, visible on the wall behind the sitter, indicates that this young man is a member of the prosperous Coymans family of Haarlem. The cows’ heads refer directly to the Dutch family name, which translates as „cow man.“ Archival and genealogical information, combined with the Latin inscription „AETA SVAE.22 / 1645“ below the shield, identifies the sitter as Willem Coymans, who was twenty-two years old in 1645.
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Around the turn of the 17th century, a number of Flemish painters presented sumptuous tabletop still lifes to delight the viewer, and none surpassed Osias Beert. The carefully crafted objects and expensive delicacies that he depicted celebrate a world of abundance and beauty in a style that shows off Beert’s mastery of textural effects and realistic detail.
On View West Building Main Floor, Gallery 50-B Artwork overview Medium oil on
Homer developed a penchant for forceful realism early in his career. Following an apprenticeship in a Boston lithography shop, he supported himself as a freelance illustrator, creating a wide variety of popular images that subsequently were published as wood engravings in national periodicals like Harper’s Weekly .
Louchheim, Aline B.
Roses was painted shortly before Van Gogh’s release from the asylum at Saint–Rémy. He felt he was coming to terms with his illness—and himself.
M.54, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles: Stockbook No. 8, p.75
Accession Number 1952.5.46.b Associated Artworks Saint Veronica [obverse] Hans
Right and Left refers to the shooting of two birds, one just after the other, with a double barreled shotgun. Winslow Homer may have seen hunters perform this feat at sea near his studio overlooking the Atlantic Ocean in Prouts Neck, Maine.
The Art Quarterly (Summer 1946): 227, repro. 229. 1947 Louchheim, Aline B.
[3] See Knoedler stock book no. 8, p. 156 and Knoedler sales book no. 13, p. 366
The short biblical account of the Flight into Egypt (Matt. 2:13–14) was elaborated upon by Early Christian and medieval theologians.
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Above all, Johannes Vermeer was a painter of light. In this exquisite painting, diffused light softly illuminates the tabletop, the woman’s face, and her rich lemon-yellow morning jacket.
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