it first appeared in the portrait Isaac Abrahamsz Massa (Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Charles Sheeler was a master of both painting and photography, and his work in one medium influenced and shaped his work in the other.[1] In 1927, he was commissioned to photograph the Ford Motor Company’s new River Rouge Plant near Detroit. Then the world’s largest industrial complex, employing more than 75,000 workers, the plant produced Ford’s Model A, successor to the famed Model T.
Landscape Painting from Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Moon was painted during the fall of 1935 and depicts a tree covering the glowing moon. Arthur Dove lived and worked at his family home in Geneva, New York, from 1933 to 1938.
Newark, London, and Toronto, 1984: 57, 232-234, no. 36.8. "Moon."
Like many American artists of his generation, George Bellows was interested in the various urban construction projects that transformed New York City into an ultramodern metropolis. By the time he commenced work on The Lone Tenement in December 1909, he had completed four paintings devoted to the excavation site of the new Pennsylvania Station, culminating in the Gallery’s Blue Morning (painted in March 1909).
artist’s Record Book]. 1915 Department of Fine Arts, Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto
Information on this painting can be found in the Gallery publication American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I, pages 318-322, which is available as a free PDF at https://www.nga.gov/content/dam/ngaweb/research/publications/pdfs/american-paintings-19th-century-part-1.pdf
New York, 1950, no. 31. 1961 American Painting 1865-1905, The Art Gallery of Toronto
Boulevard—Paris) 1897, Calcutta (no. 209, as A Wet Day on the Boulevard) 1897, Toronto
Vlaminck is often portrayed as the most unruly painter of the fauve school, an impression that reflects both on his personality (as it is revealed in his biography and writings) and his work. A self-taught artist, Vlaminck insisted that painting should be the unmediated expression of an artist’s temperament, „emotive, tender, ferocious, as natural as life itself.“ [1] Indeed, having been an anarchist sympathizer during the prewar period, he would later link the strident colorism and bold brushwork of his work to social and political dissent, a connection that was actually made by several art critics.
York; Minneapolis Institute of Art; San Francisco Museum of Art; Art Gallery of Toronto
Minneapolis Institute of Arts; San Francisco Museum of Art; The Art Gallery of Toronto
Before establishing himself as a pioneering member of the dada movement during and after World War I, Picabia experimented with various forms of modernist painting. Procession, Seville belongs to a group of works from 1912 in which the artist demonstrates a sophisticated and highly idiosyncratic assimilation of recent developments in cubism and futurism.[1] Fragmented planes, shallow space, and an allover pattern of flickering lights and darks are all associated with the analytic cubism of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque;
Guggenheim Museum, New York; Cincinnati Art Museum; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Braque was raised in the Normandy port town of Le Havre, where he first studied art. His early work was characterized by a conservative impressionist manner derived from artists such as Eugène Boudin and Johan Barthold Jongkind.
York; Minneapolis Institute of Art; San Francisco Museum of Art; Art Gallery of Toronto
