Meet the daring artist whose weavings and prints changed the way we see textiles.
In 1963 Josef Albers had a fellowship at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in Los
Baby at Play is the final work in a series of intimate portraits of family and friends created by Eakins between 1870 and 1876. The painting depicts the artist’s two–and–a–half–year–old niece, Ella Crowell.
Records, accession number 2012.M.54, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los
Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Pierre Apraxine and Maria Umali, Gilman Paper Company
In the tradition of his Flemish predecessors, Memling’s painting contains a wealth of religious meaning; it is filled with symbols which explain the importance of Christ’s mission on earth.
Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los
Orazio Gentileschi was one of the earliest and most gifted painters to be inspired by the genre scenes of Caravaggio in Rome. Here, he must have had in mind Caravaggio’s famous picture on the same theme.
Museum of Western and Eastern Art, 1979 (organized by the Armand Hammer Foundation, Los
Thomas Eakins made his career portraying upper-middle class residents of his native Philadelphia. Such depictions are anything but static likenesses;
Paintings of Everyday Life 1765-1915, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Los
It might be said that with paintings like this one, Annibale Carracci invented the landscape as a subject for Italian baroque painting. Nature here is appreciated first and foremost for herself and not as the backdrop for a story.
DK-1 (Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles; copies in NGA curatorial files).
This bucolic landscape depicts two horsemen who have stopped on a small rise overlooking a broad river valley to ask local herdsmen for directions. With figures and cattle silhouetted against an expansive sky and late afternoon light bathing the scene in a golden glow, the painting conveys the sense of peace and tranquility that pervaded the Netherlands after the signing of the Treaty of Münster in 1648 that ended the war against Spain and finally established the Dutch Republic.
Records, accession number 2012.M.54, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los
Vincent van Gogh painted 36 self-portraits. This was one of his last.
Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, 1997: 165-167, repro. 2000 Shackelford, George
This large painting of the Madonna and Child was in the center of an altarpiece devoted to Saint John the Baptist, which also featured The Baptism of Christ and The Birth, Naming, and Circumcision of Saint John the Baptist (see Reconstruction ). The altarpiece’s original location is not known, though it was probably featured in a church dedicated to the saint in what is today the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, close to Giovanni Baronzio’s home in Rimini.
Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los
