Hendrick ter Brugghen excelled at capturing the rhythms of music in the very way he composed his paintings. In this remarkable image a bagpipe player, seen in strict profile, squeezes the leather bag between his forearms as he blows through the instrument’s pipe and fingers a tune on the chanter.
_Die Kunst und das Schöne Heim _ 52 (4 January 1954): 124. 1955 Nicolson, Benedict
A play and a painting appear to have merged in Jan van Eyck’s dramatic Annunciation , which is rich with Christian symbolism. The rainbow-winged archangel Gabriel tells the Virgin Mary that God has chosen her to bear his son.
William II, King of the Netherlands [d. 1849], in Brussels until 1841, thereafter
New York, Inc., Wildenstein and Co., New York, 1960, no. 104 (as Danseuse en Scène
Discover works by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and learn about the artist
Geneva, 1966 (English edition, New York, 1979). 1975 Toussaint, Hélène.
early in the century, including George Bellows (American, 1882 Р1925) and Guy P̬ne
To brighten Cézanne’s dark palette knife, his friend Camille Pissarro told him, „Never paint except with the three primary colors. .
collection was inherited by his son and daughter, Jean-Victor Pellerin and Mme Réne
Charles Sheeler was a master of both painting and photography, and his work in one medium influenced and shaped his work in the other.[1] In 1927, he was commissioned to photograph the Ford Motor Company’s new River Rouge Plant near Detroit. Then the world’s largest industrial complex, employing more than 75,000 workers, the plant produced Ford’s Model A, successor to the famed Model T.
Ford [d. 1943], Dearborn, Michigan; by inheritance to his wife, Mrs. Edsel B.
The Iowa painter Grant Wood, along with John Steuart Curry and Thomas Hart Benton , was one of the leading midwestern American regionalist painters. Created in 1939, just as the country was beginning to recover from the ravages of the Great Depression, Haying and its companion New Road are representative examples of the idealized landscapes of rural Iowa that the artist had begun to paint in 1930.
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE; Davenport Museum of Art, IA, and the Worcester Art
français de Poussin à Corot, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1925, no. 121, as Scène
The Iowa artist Grant Wood was one of the leading midwestern American regionalist painters. Created in 1939 after a three-year period in which Wood concentrated on lithography, New Road and its companion Haying are representative examples of the idealized rural landscapes that the artist had begun to paint in 1930.
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE; Davenport Museum of Art, IA, and the Worcester Art
