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Adriaen Brouwer was one of the most expressive artists of the 17th century. His great contribution to genre painting was to give a face to the peasant, to infuse his images of these lower-class individuals with recognizable and vividly expressed human emotions—anger, joy, pain, and pleasure.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1998: 65, no. 8. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.
Imported olives and a simple roll rounded out the feast, which would have been washed
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.
Washington, D.C., 1996: 162-167, color repro. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.
Marisa Bass, Yale University (chair) September 2022–August 2025 Valerie Cassel Oliver
Washington, D.C., 2000: 208-213, color repro. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.
According to legend, Martin of Tour was a soldier in the army of Constantine the Great serving in Gaul, near the French city of Amiens, in the fourth century. On a winter’s day Martin encountered a poor beggar at the city gates and cut his military cloak in half to help shield the shivering man from the cold.
Apollo 34 (December 1941): 152, repro., as by Van Dyck. 1963 Millar, Oliver.
[11] Oliver Millar, Van Dyck in England (London, 1982), 103, no. 63.
A painting may provide a “window� into a different world. Here, the painting is itself a window, and it reveals a world dizzy with color and movement.
Henri Matisse. 1994: repro. 40. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.
Latin America, with its rich histories and cultures — as well as dense jungles, towering volcanoes, and mountain ranges — fascinated American artists in the mid-19th century. Frederic Edwin Church traveled in the tropics and used the sketches he made in different locations to create popular landscape paintings.
London, 1996: no. 213, repro. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.
Milan, 2002: no. 92/3, repro. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.
