Still Life with Pineapple by Henri Matisse https://www.nga.gov/artworks/53136-still-life-pineapple
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Never associated with any specific art movement, Lamar Dodd was a southern painter who worked in various styles throughout his long career. This depiction of Athens, where Dodd lived and taught at the University of Georgia, was influenced by the urban realism of the Ashcan school as well as the regionalist movements of the 1930s.
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Walt Kuhn painted Pumpkins on the porch of his cottage on Lake Buel in the Berkshires, near Great Barrington, Massachusetts, during early autumn 1941. At that time he was struggling to recover some of the creative energy of his youth, and he informed his wife that “the two pumpkin paintings have got my swing back.
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Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet, 1694-1778) returned from exile in Switzerland to Paris in February 1778. A clamorous welcome awaited the eighty-four-year-old genius, admired by his contemporaries as a playwright, historian, poet, novelist, political and social commentator, and eloquent champion of human rights against oppression and intolerance.
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Information on this painting can be found in the Gallery publication American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century , pages 224-227, which is available as a free PDF https://www.nga.gov/content/dam/ngaweb/research/publications/pdfs/american-paintings-18th-century.pdf
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William Merritt Chase (1849–1916), one of New York’s most prominent artists in the 1880s, surpassed all others in the use of pastel. In his adept hands, pastel’s chalky matter rivaled the authority of oil paint, though with greater receptivity to light and an unmatched velvety texture.
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Washington, 1968: 102, repro. Berenson, Bernard.
Information on this painting can be found in the Gallery publication American Naive Paintings , pages 64-65, which is available as a free PDF https://www.nga.gov/content/dam/ngaweb/research/publications/pdfs/American%20Naive%20Painting.pdf
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