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.
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Haseley Court, Oxfordshire
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
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…'
Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) The Builders
Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Plumbers
Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Laundry
Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Filling Tea Urns
Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Shipbuilding on the Clyde Burners
Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Shipbuilding on the Clyde Riveters 1946
Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Shipbuilding on the Clyde Riveters
Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891 – 1959) Shipbuilding on the Clyde Welders
Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891-1959) Mending Cowls, Cookham 1915
Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891-1959) Bedmaking 1927-32
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