Philips Wouwerman, a prolific painter of equestrian scenes, hailed from Haarlem, where he was baptized on May 24, 1619. The eldest of three sons born to the painter Pouwels Joosten and Susanna van den Bogert, Pouwels’ fourth wife, Wouwerman probably first learned to paint from his father.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Aelbert Cuyp, one of the foremost Dutch landÂscape painters of the seventeenth century, was born in Dordrecht in October of 1620. His father, Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp (1594–1652), was a successful porÂtrait painter in the city, and from him Aelbert received his earliest training, assisting his father by painting landscape backgrounds for porÂtrait commissions.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Philadelphia Museum of Art.
A play and a painting appear to have merged in Jan van Eyck’s dramatic Annunciation , which is rich with Christian symbolism. The rainbow-winged archangel Gabriel tells the Virgin Mary that God has chosen her to bear his son.
and fig. 2 (detail). 1998 Recognizing Van Eyck, The National Gallery, London; Philadelphia
at Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania: British and Modern French Schools, Philadelphia
Known for playfully sensuous terracotta nymphs and satyrs, Clodion also portrayed more serious subjects from Classical myth and history. An ancient draped figure at the Uffizi in Florence, then known as a vestal, inspired him during a stay in Italy to make several statuettes of a priestess of the Roman hearth goddess Vesta, pouring out oil to feed the sacred fire.
Exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2000: 250-251, under no. 127. 2005 Baillio
In One Year the Milkweed , one of several so-called color veil paintings Gorky made in 1944, films of paint have been washed unevenly across the canvas, and evocative but indistinct forms have been brushed in. Overall green and brown hues suggest a landscape, but there are no identifiable landscape forms and no spatial recession.
York; Phoenix Art Museum, 2005, pl. 85. 2009 Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective, Philadelphia
With „The Skater,“ Stuart blazed a new path in British portraiture. Its details tell the story of skating in 18th-century Britain.
skater and skating scholar Dick Button, the Serpentine Greeting was also called the Philadelphia
Painted in August 1907, Forty-two Kids depicts a band of nude and partially clothed boys engaged in a variety of antics—swimming, diving, sunbathing, smoking, and possibly urinating—on and near a dilapidated wharf jutting out over New York City’s East River. A sharp observer of urban life, George Bellows has sketched his streetwise subjects with characteristic vigor and economy of means, and he has carefully rendered their varied ethnic backgrounds.
History 1908 103rd Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
works from the Eddleman and Fisher collections at the Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia
Woman Holding a Balance is a superb example of Johannes Vermeer’s exquisite sense of stability and rhythm. A woman dressed in a blue jacket with fur trim stands serenely at a table in a corner of a room.
Chicago, 1933, no. 80. 1984 Masters of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting, Philadelphia
