Guy Pène du Bois painted Pierrot Tired while living in France in the 1920s. Although the artist’s strained finances forced him to live some 30 miles outside Paris, his fascination with that city’s café society and expatriate culture led him to paint many views of well-to-do restaurant and nightclub patrons.
no. 10. 1932 127th Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
at Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania: British and Modern French Schools, Philadelphia
More information on this object can be found in the Gallery publication Western Decorative Arts, Part I: Medieval, Renaissance, and Historicizing Styles Including Metalwork, Enamels, and Ceramics , which is available as a free PDF https://www.nga.gov/content/dam/ngaweb/research/publications/pdfs/western-decorative-arts-part-i.pdf
Philadelphia, 1935: 32. 1942 Works of Art from the Widener Collection.
19th-century institutions on the East Coast, like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia
Institute, Pittsburgh, 1931, no. 9 Living Artists, The Pennsylania Museum of Art, Philadelphia
Is a picture a portrait if it doesn’t include a face? Alfred Stieglitz took hundreds of photographs of his wife, artist Georgia O’Keeffe.
Collection Collection of Ydessa Hendeles The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 573.1980 Philadelphia
Pieter Molijn, born in London of Flemish parents, was baptized on April 6, 1595. It is not known when he left England or where and with whom he studied painting.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Philadelphia Museum of Art.
The creation of works of art during the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance was often a collaborative process. This triptych was painted by two artists:
Educational and Charitable Trust Exhibition History 1926 Sesquicentennial Exhibition, Philadelphia
The creation of works of art during the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance was often a collaborative process. The partnership of the two artists here— Puccio painted the center and right-hand panel of this tryptych and Allegretto the left—is a bit unusual, since they were not based in the same city.
Educational and Charitable Trust Exhibition History 1926 Sesquicentennial Exhibition, Philadelphia
Edouard Manet offers an intriguing study in contrasts and ambiguity in The Railway , starting with the relationship between the two figures. Are they mother and daughter?
World’s Fair, May-October 1940, no. 280, repro. 1951 Diamond Jubilee Exhibition, Philadelphia
