The Virgin Annunciate by Giovanni di Domenico https://www.nga.gov/artworks/1471-virgin-annunciate
Philadelphia, 1935: 49, as Italian (Florence), fifteenth century, probably designed
Philadelphia, 1935: 49, as Italian (Florence), fifteenth century, probably designed
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
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.
1908, no. 167. 103rd Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
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
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
Impressionist, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec City; Barnes Foundation, 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
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
Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1996, no. 110, color repro. 2002 Barnett Newman, Philadelphia
Mythological Painting from Watteau to David, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris; Philadelphia