The Sisters by Berthe Morisot https://www.nga.gov/artworks/42285-sisters
Impressionist, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec City; Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia
Impressionist, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec City; Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia
The Longshoremen’s Noon represents a casual gathering of longshoremen—men who labor „along shore“—on a busy Hudson River wharf. It is one of John George Brown’s most celebrated scenes of urban life.
American Artists at the Universal Exposition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
In 1909, Hamilton Easter Field, a Brooklyn painter and critic, asked Picasso to create a group of eleven paintings as a decoration for his library. Picasso accepted but, although he worked on the commission intermittently over the next several years, he never completed all eleven of the panels.
94, repro., as Standing Figure. 1945 The Callery Collection: Picasso-Léger, Philadelphia
Pieter de Hooch worked in the small and relatively quiet city of Delft from 1652 to about 1660. Like other Delft artists, most notably Carel Fabritius and Johannes Vermeer, De Hooch painted everyday scenes that are remarkable for their clarity of perspective and harmony of light.
Philadelphia Museum of Art; Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz
Filippino Lippi was the son of the painter Fra Filippo Lippi, who was undoubtedly the boy’s first master. After his father died in 1469, he became a pupil of Botticelli, who had a profound influence on his style.
Although the two authors erroneously report its location as the Johnson Collection in Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1959-1960, no. 25, repro.
Landscapes 1865-1883, The National Gallery, London; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Philadelphia
Fresno Art Museum, 2006, no. 1, repro. 2009 Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective, Philadelphia
As the oldest son of Charles Willson Peale, Raphaelle Peale was the first in a dynasty of painters and botanists burdened by the names of famous artists and scientists that their father admired. In the first history of American art, published nine years after Raphaelle Peale’s death and one of the very few notices taken of him, William Dunlap wrote that Peale, like his father, was „a painter of portraits in oil and miniature, but excelled more in compositions of still life.
.; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1988-1989, no. 2, repro.,
unnumbered catalogue, repro. 2002 Degas and the Dance, Detroit Institute of Arts; Philadelphia