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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.
A pleasant sense of ease and harmony pervades this landscape of almost photographic clarity. The large areas of brilliant sunshine and cool shade, the rambling line of the fence, and the beautiful balance of trees, meadow, and river are evidence of the artist’s creative synthesis of the actual site.
, Realism, and the Nineteenth-Century World, 1998: 1, repro. 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.
In this Arcadian portrait, Anthony van Dyck pictures Philip, 4th Baron Wharton, standing before a shimmering green drapery against a rocky backdrop, while holding a shepherd’s houlette in the crook of his arm. His regal pose and his sumptuous attire with its rich golden-yellow, purple, and emerald tones convey both grace and elegance, while his gaze exudes self-confidence.
[1] Oliver Millar, „Philip, Lord Wharton, and His Collection of Portraits,“ The
National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 436, repro. 1986 Hand, John Oliver
Through the 1920s, Matisse stayed in Nice from late fall to early spring of each year, while his wife and family remained in Issy-les-Moulineaux outside Paris. Pianist and Checker Players is set in Matisse’s Nice apartment and shows the artist’s favorite model, Henriette Darricarère, and her two brothers.
New Haven, 2000: 264 2004 Hand, John Oliver.
Renoir had his girlfriend Lise Tréhot pose as the ancient Roman goddess Diana. He chose a mythological subject and painted it at grand scale in hopes of getting this picture into the largest art show of the time, the Salon.
Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998: 58-60, repro. no. 29. 2004 Hand, John Oliver
Milan, 2002: no. 92/3, repro. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.
Black White and Blue was painted at a critical juncture in Georgia O’Keeffe’s life. In 1929 she began to spend several months of each year in New Mexico, away from both New York and her husband, Alfred Stieglitz, the photographer and promoter of American modernist painting and photography.
Hand, John Oliver.
Vincent van Gogh painted 36 self-portraits. This was one of his last.
New York, 2000: 54, repro. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.
