Bazille spent a month working in Aigues-Mortes, a fortified medieval town in Southern France. This painting, one of three he produced there, is awash in color.
Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1973-1978, unnumbered checklist. 1986 Gifts to the Nation
Cezanne was deeply attached to Provence, the region in southern France where he was born and raised. He often painted its sundrenched terrain.
with permanent collection, Munch Museum, Oslo, 1981-1982. 1986 Gifts to the Nation
Childe Hassam was a regular visitor to the Isles of Shoals, nine small, rocky, treeless islands off the New Hampshire coast. His acquaintance with the islands was due to his poet friend Celia Thaxter, whose house on Appledore Island was a summer mecca for writers, painters, illustrators, musicians, and other artistic visitors.
Kelly, published in the National Gallery of Art exhibition catalogue, Art for the Nation
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Paul Mellon, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1999-2000. 2000 Art for the Nation
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Jan van Huysum’s lasting fame centers on his exuberant arrangements and technical virtuosity. More than any other artist before or after, he was able to capture the dynamic energy of a profuse array of flowers and fruit.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1999, no. 19, fig. 60. 2000 Art for the Nation
Among the most memorable characters in Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s hugely popular novel The Last Days of Pompeii (1834) is Nydia, a blind flower seller. In love with the noble-born Glaucus, who is engaged to Ione, Nydia knows the hopelessness of her position and endures her suffering with quiet courage.
Kelly, published in the National Gallery of Art exhibition catalogue, Art for the Nation
Vuillard belonged to a quasi-mystical group of young artists that arose in about 1890 and called themselves the Nabi, a Hebrew word for prophet. The Nabi rejected impressionism and considered simple transcription of the appearance of the natural world unthinking and unartistic.
Vuillard, Frankfurter Kunstverein, 1964. no. 26, repro. 1986 Gifts to the Nation
