Completed in February 1911, New York is a large, ambitious painting in which George Bellows captures the essence of modern life in New York City. Although the viewer looks uptown toward Madison Square from the intersection of Broadway and 23rd Street, Bellows did not intend to represent a specific, identifiable place in the city.
CHARLES BROCK: What I love about it is its wild ambition.
It reads, “S R Gifford 1865.� On View West Building Main Floor, Gallery 65
The Minnesota artist’s humanist, ecological pottery contains operating instructions for our shared survival.
He’d get donations of wild rice hulls from the White Earth and Red Lake Indigenous
Still lifes with hunting motifs became popular in Dutch art in the latter part of the seventeenth century, at a time when Dutch society grew wealthier and more refined. Willem van Aelst, who worked in Paris and Florence before settling in Amsterdam, was one of the first still-life painters to depict hunting trophies.
This kill includes a white rooster, a wild hare, a partridge, and several songbirds
Venus, as if filled with foreboding about Adonis’s fate, desperately clings to her lover, while he pulls himself free of her embrace, impatient for the hunt and with his hounds straining at the leash. The goddess’s gesture is echoed by that of Cupid, who anxiously watches the lovers’ leave-taking while clutching a dove—a creature sacred to Venus.
™s love for the beautiful young huntsman Adonis, who was tragically killed by a wild
On View West Building Main Floor, Gallery 9 Artwork overview Medium marble
Peter Paul Rubens’s enormous painting, based on the Old Testament story of Daniel, puts us right in the lions’ den. The Jewish youth was condemned to spend the night with the brutal beasts for worshipping his God rather than the Persian king Darius.
worship the Babylonian king, has thrown him into a lions’ den, expecting the wild
in June 1913 during Henri’s first visit to Achill Island, County Mayo, off the west
The door has crushed a wild-haired demon with red-colored skin against the pebble-strewn
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Head of a Woman (English) Transcript NARRATOR: Many early twentieth century Western
