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Sunday, May 18, 2014

Paintings of Berthe Morisot 1841-1895 by Édouard Manet 1832–1883

1868 Édouard Manet (French artist, 1832–1883) The Balcony. Berthe Morisot, seated. Standing is the violinist Fanny Claus, with the painter Antonin Guillemet, who exhibited at the 1869 Paris Salon.

Berthe Morisot became the sister-in-law of her friend & colleague, Édouard Manet, when she married his brother, Eugene.

1868 Édouard Manet (French artist, 1832–1883) Detail from the painting The Balcony

1868-69 Édouard Manet (French artist, 1832–1883) Portrait of Berthe Morisot (French artist, 1841-1895) with a Muff

1869 Édouard Manet (French artist, 1832–1883) Portrait of Berthe Morisot (French artist, 1841-1895)

1870 Édouard Manet (French artist, 1832–1883) Portrait of Berthe Morisot (French artist, 1841-1895)

1870 Édouard Manet (French artist, 1832–1883) Portrait of Berthe Morisot (French artist, 1841-1895) with a pink shoe

1872 Édouard Manet (French artist, 1832–1883) Portrait of Berthe Morisot (French artist, 1841-1895) con ramillete de violetas

1872 Édouard Manet (French artist, 1832–1883) Portrait of Berthe Morisot (French artist, 1841-1895) con un abanico (Same pink shoe?)

1872-3 Édouard Manet (French artist, 1832–1883) Portrait of Berthe Morisot (French artist, 1841-1895) on a divan

1873 Édouard Manet (French artist, 1832–1883) Portrait of Berthe Morisot (French artist, 1841-1895)

1874 Édouard Manet (French artist, 1832–1883) Portrait of Berthe Morisot (French artist, 1841-1895) t à l’éventail

1874 Édouard Manet (French artist, 1832–1883) Portrait of Berthe Morisot (French artist, 1841-1895) with Hat, in mourning

Bertha Morisot, 1875

Friday, May 16, 2014

Color in the garden by Henri Matisse & Tara Dillard

One of my favorite blogs is Tara Dillard Garden and Home. I never fail to learn something or to smile, when I read her "tough love" approach to gardening. Henri Matisse (1869-1954) anticipated Tara's use of color on furniture & iron in her garden in his paintings.

Tara's use of color

Henri Matisse (1869-1954). Young Women in the Garden, 1919.

From Tara's home garden

Henri Matisse (1869-1954). Moraccan Garden

Haseley Court, Oxfordshire

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

A weird garden gate by Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin 1848-1903

Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (1848-1903). The Gate

Sunday, May 4, 2014

At Home with Stanley Spencer 1891-1959

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Love Letters

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Adjusting the Collar

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891-1959) The Chest of Drawers 1936

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891-1959) Dusting the Shelves 1936

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Hilda and I at Pond Street

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Hilda with Bluebells 1955

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959)

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) On the Landing Looking at a Drawing

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891-1959) Hilda Welcomed 1953

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891-1959) Choosing a Petticoat 1936

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891-1959) Neighbors 1936

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891-1959) Village Gossips 1939-40

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891-1959) The Dustbin 1956

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891-1959) Silent Prayer

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891-1959) Going to Bed

Friday, May 2, 2014

Englishmen Working by Stanley Spencer 1891-1959

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Workmen in the House 1935

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Workmen in the House 1935

Stanley Spencer painted men working for decades. He was an Official War Artist in both World Wars. His great cycle of wall paintings in the National Trust Sandham Memorial Chapel, Burghclere commemorate his experiences in the RAMC and infantry during the First World War.

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Shipbuilding on the Clyde

The Imperial War Museum in London loaned paintings to augment an exhibition of Stanley Spencer's series on WWII British shipbuilding in 2012. An introduction to the exhibition written by Stanley Spencer Gallery's Curator, Carolyn Leder, explains...

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Garage 1929

In 1939, Spencer urged his dealer Dudley Tooth to find him 'a war job, some sort of official art employment.' The art market was slack and as Tooth noted Spencer was 'terribly in debt all round'. On Tooth's writing to Sir Kenneth Clark, Director of the National Gallery, and Chairman of the War Artists' Advisory Committee (WAAC) under the Ministry of Information, Spencer was interviewed and appointed. His initial suggestion of a Crucifixion with predella panels to show the Nazi conquest of Poland was rejected.

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959)

Instead, he agreed to depict a shipyard, paying his first visit to the suggested 'Kingston' yard, owned by Sir James Lithgow, at Port Glasgow on the river Clyde in May 1940. He responded to the place with enthusiasm...The strong sense of community reminded him of Cookham: 'many of the places in and corners of Lithgow's factory moved me in much the same way as I was by rooms in my childhood.'

Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959)

During WWII, Spencer depicted all the major trades involved in the building of the ships, including developments in technology, such as the use of welding, which gradually superseded riveting as a method of joining steel plates...They fully engaged his creative imagination: 'The point is that whatever may be thought of these shipbuilding pictures of mine, I am much moved by what I see up here and experience joy in attempting to express the feeling I have about it all…'