Showing posts with label Sports & Recreation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sports & Recreation. Show all posts
Thursday, December 29, 2016

Gone Fishing - with the dog

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Philip Stretton (British artist, 1865–1919) Left in Charge
Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Gone Fishing - in 1600s England

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Wenceslaus Hollar (European-born English artist, 1607-1677) Angling Wenceslaus Hollar (European-born English artist, 1607-1677) Ri...
Friday, December 23, 2016

Waterside with Canadian Paul Peel 1860-1892

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Paul Peel (Canadian-born artist, 1860-1892) The Young Botanist 1888-90 Paul Peel was a Canadian academic painter. Having won a medal a...
Monday, December 19, 2016

Waterside with Frenchman Édouard Manet 1832-1883

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Édouard Manet (French artist, 1832-1883) The Beach at Boulogne in 1868 Édouard Manet (French artist, 1832-1883) On The Beach 18...
Saturday, December 17, 2016

Waterside with Frenchman Claude Monet 1840-1926

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Claude Monet (French artist, 1840-1926) Camille Monet on the Beach at Trouville 1870 Claude Monet (French artist, 1840-1926) River Sc...
Thursday, December 15, 2016

Waterside with Frenchman Pierre Auguste Renoir 1841-1919

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Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) Children on the Seashore Guernsey 1883 Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) On the Beach, Figures unde...
Thursday, January 14, 2016

Off to the fair with Camille Pissarro 1830-1903

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Camille Pissarro (French artist, 1830-1903) The Fair Goers
Monday, December 7, 2015

Bathing Beauties by Stanley Spencer 1891-1959

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Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891-1959) Girls Returning from a Bathe 1936 "Everything has a sort of double meaning for me, ...
Saturday, December 5, 2015

Bathing by Camille Pissarro 1830-1903

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 Camille Pissarro (French artist, 1830-1903) Bather  Camille Pissarro (French artist, 1830-1903) Bathers  Camille Pissarro (French ar...
Sunday, November 1, 2015

The earliest Picnics occured after the Hunt in the 18C

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Food historians tell us picnics evolved from the elaborate traditions of outdoor feasts enjoyed by the wealthy. Medieval hunting feasts ...
Friday, October 16, 2015

1935 Picnic in California

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1935 Picnic in California
Wednesday, October 14, 2015

1910-1925 American Picnic

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1910-1925 American Picnic. Photo by John Johnson. Johnson was born in Lincoln in 1879 to Harrison Johnson, an escaped slave and Civil War...
Saturday, October 10, 2015

1920 Picnic in North Carolina

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1920 Picnic in North Carolina
Thursday, October 8, 2015

1915 Picnic in Seattle, Washington

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1915 Picnic in driftwood at beach below Magnolia Bluff, Seattle, Washington
Sunday, October 4, 2015

1894 Maine Picnic

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1894 An outing in the Maine woods
Thursday, September 24, 2015

1738 Unusual Gardens flanking the courtyard of this hunting-lodge castle

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Charles Leopold van Grevenbroeck (c 1731-1799)  Arrival of King Louis XV (1723–1774) at La Muette Castle in 1738. Detai The castle was ...