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Van Gogh found inspiration for this portrait in the bold complementary colors and contrasting patterns of the Japanese woodblock prints he collected. He fantasized about Japan as a utopia of bright light and color different from the dark, crowded western capitals he lived in.
F 431 JH 1519. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.
Crawford Notch, a deep valley in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, gained notoriety in 1826 when nine lives were lost in a catastrophic avalanche nearby. Cole’s painting depicts the site of an earlier landslide whose destruction prompted the victims—Mr.
Washington, D.C., 1996: 87-95, color repro. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.
This group portrait represents George Washington’s military, political, and family life. The president, in a Revolutionary War uniform, rests his hand on a plan for Washington, DC, the site for the new US capital.
Washington, D.C., 1995: 146-158, color repro. 147. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.
peacock’s beak, is complemented by an array of foods, including a roasted pheasant, olives
It is impossible to guess what 16-year-old Ginevra de’ Benci was thinking as she sat for this portrait to commemorate her upcoming marriage. The young Florentine woman has a distant gaze.
Washington, 2003: 357-369, color repro. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.
In 1632 Anthony van Dyck was invited to England to work at the court of King Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria. In Van Dyck, the royal couple and the English aristocracy found an artist whose gifts perfectly matched their artistic sensitivities as well as their political needs and aspirations.
New Haven, 2004: IV.119 Hand, John Oliver.
How do portraits influence the way we see historic figures? David shows Napoleon Bonaparte working tirelessly for the people of France.
Washington, D.C., 2000: 196-208, color repro. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.
Lured to Tahiti in 1891 by reports of its unspoiled culture, Gauguin was disappointed by its civilized capital and moved to the countryside, where he found an approximation of the tropical paradise he had expected. The Tahiti of his depictions was derived from native folklore supplemented by material culled from books written by earlier European visitors and overlaid with allusions to western culture.
Exh. cat., Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, 2001: 117-118, repro. 2004 Hand, John Oliver
Pieter de Hooch excelled in the sensitive depiction of people going about their daily lives, be it inside their houses or in the sheltered environment of an urban courtyard. His masterly control of light, color, and complex perspectival construction can be compared to the work of Johannes Vermeer, his contemporary and colleague in Delft.
London, 2003: 2:71. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.
Homer developed a penchant for forceful realism early in his career. Following an apprenticeship in a Boston lithography shop, he supported himself as a freelance illustrator, creating a wide variety of popular images that subsequently were published as wood engravings in national periodicals like Harper’s Weekly .
Berkeley, 2003: 42-43, 321, fig. 13. 2004 Hand, John Oliver.
