You may know Georgia O’Keeffe, but have you heard of Tonita Peña? Learn about the many artists inspired by the Southwest.
Albers recommended her for a fellowship at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in Los
Are artists sinners or saints? Gauguin paints himself as both.
Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, 1997: 165-167, fig. 98. 1998 Boeckl, Christine
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.
Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los
Like Jacques Onésime de Bergeret, Lalive de Jully (1725-79) was an influential collector, amateur, and painter in the Parisian art world of the 1750s and 1760s. One of Jean-Baptiste Greuze’s first patrons, Lalive is depicted seated on a chair he had commissioned as part of a suite of furniture à la grecque.
(Duveen Brothers Records, Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
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.
1970, no. 22. 1973 Winslow Homer, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Los
Like Duccio’s The Nativity with the Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel , this small panel was part of the Maestà , one of the most important masterpieces in the history of Western painting.
Records, accession number 960015, Special Collections, Getty Research Institute, Los
in Paris – My name is Laila Lalami and I am a novelist and essayist based in Los
Pieter de Hooch worked in the small and relatively quiet city of Delft from 1652 to about 1660. Like other Delft artists, most notably Carel Fabritius and Johannes Vermeer, De Hooch painted everyday scenes that are remarkable for their clarity of perspective and harmony of light.
Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los
Seville’s most popular painter in the later 17th century was Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. While Murillo is well known for works with religious themes, he also produced a number of genre paintings of figures from contemporary life engaged in ordinary pursuits.
1617-1682): Paintings from American Collections, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth; Los
Here he had numerous opportunities to paint portraits in which he was marvelously successful and had few equals. He painted Cavaliers and Ladies of our city and all of them so lifelike and invested with a certain air, that .
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