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FEATURE Image: Paris Bordon/e (1500-1571). Gladiator fight, c. 1560, oil on canvas, 218 × 329 cm, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Gemäldegalerie. ITALY. Venetian art in the 16th Century: Bellini, Conegliano, Carpaccio, Giorgione, del Piombo, Vecchio, Cariani, Lotto, Bordon/e. – CORRIDORS│An Educational Website in the Arts and History. Featuring My Photography and Videos.
ITALY. Two Flower Paintings from 1608 in the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan, Italy by Flemish artist Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568-1625), nicknamed the “Flower” and “Velvet” Artist.
Feature Image: Flowers in a Vase and Flower Vase with Jewel, Coins, and Shells, both 1608, oil on copper, by Jan Brueghel the Elder and in the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan, Italy. Jan Brueghel the Elder (Flemish, 1568-1625) produced hundreds of paintings by his own hand and in collaboration with other master painters. His painterly skill…
ITALY. 550th Anniversary of the Birth of Italian Renaissance Artist Michelangelo Buonarroti (March 6, 1475-1564). 17 Artworks & Illustrations.
FEATURE Image: Portrait of Michelangelo, Marcello Venusti (1510-1579), after 1550. Casa Buonarroti, Florence, Italy. see – https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/ritratto-di-michelangelo/AgFcI66SXt6qGg?hl=it – retrieved March 6, 2025. The Italian Renaissance artist was born in Florentine territory in Caprese in the provinces of Tuscany where his father was a government bureaucrat. The family soon relocated to Florence where Michaelangelo grew up.…
ITALY. Venetian art in the 16th Century: Bellini, Conegliano, Carpaccio, Giorgione, del Piombo, Vecchio, Cariani, Lotto, Bordon/e.
FEATURE Image: Paris Bordon/e (1500-1571), Fisherman Presenting a Ring to the Doge Gradenigo, 1534, oil on canvas, 370 x 301 cm (145.7 in × 118.5 in), Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice. INTRODUCTION TO PART 1. Venice is one of the great Italian cities for Renaissance art and its wide-ranging influences. Reflecting a city in the sea, its art…
SPAIN. EL GRECO (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)(Greek, 1541-1614), Brilliant painter of mystical events.
FEATURE Image: El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos), Laocoön, oil on canvas, 1604-1614, 55 7/8 x 76″, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. In Greek and Roman mythology, Laocoön is a Trojan priest who warned the Trojans to destroy the Trojan Horse sent by the Athenians and is punished with death by the gods for it. See…
ITALY. CARAVAGGIO (ITALIAN, 1571-1610), BAROQUE MASTER OF DARKNESS. (50+ artworks).
FEATURE Image: Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi), Judith Beheading Holofernes, c. 1598, oil on canvas, 56 ¾ x 76 ¾” 145 x 195cm Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica, Rome. https://barberinicorsini.org/opera/giuditta-e-oloferne/ – retrieved October 12, 2024. INTRODUCTION. The chalk portrait above is probably the most faithful likeness of Caravaggio. Born Michelangelo Merisi in 1571, Caravaggio became an influential figure…
ITALY. RAPHAEL (ITALIAN, 1483-1520), HIGH RENAISSANCE MASTER. (50+ artworks).
FEATURE Image: Raphael, Portraits of Agnolo Doni and Maddalena Doni, c. 1506, oil on panel, 24 ¾ x 17 ¾” Pitti Gallery, Florence. INTRODUCTION. Born in Urbino in 1483, an environment rich in the arts and humanist learning, Raphael had a remarkable capacity for personal growth and branded new incarnations of his artistic style regularly.…
UNITED STATES. My Art Photography: FERNAND HARVEY LUNGREN (1857-1932), The Café, 1882/84, oil on canvas. The Art Institute of Chicago.
FEATURE Image: Fernand Harvey Lungren (1857-1932), The Café, 1882/84, oil on canvas. The Art Institute of Chicago. 9/2014. The artist, born in Sweden, moved with his family to Toledo, Ohio, as a child. Lungren wanted to be an artist but his father objected, wanting him to be a mining engineer. For a brief time, in 1874,…
AUSTRIA. My Art Photography: OSKAR KOKOSCHKA (Austrian, 1886-1980), Lady In Red, c. 1911, oil on canvas, Milwaukee Art Museum.
Oska Kokoschka in 1916. Photography by Marta Wolff (1871-1942), a Berlin-based photographer. On September 1, 1942 Marta Wolff was taken from her last place of residence in Wiesbaden to Theresienstadt. She died there of pneumonia on September 22, 1942. see – https://oskar-kokoschka.ch/fr/1001/Biographie – retrieved May 1, 2024. When Oskar Kokoschka (Austrian, 1886-1980) painted Lady In Red that…
LOW COUNTRIES. A 2005 Visit to VINCENT VAN GOGH’s Auvers-Sur-Oise, France where his final paintings and drawings, May- July 1890, make an enduring contribution to artistic modernism.
FEATURE Image: Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890), L’église d’Auvers-sur-Oise, vue du chevet (“The Church at Auvers”), June 1890, oil on canvas, 94 cm x 74 cm (37 in x 29.1 in), Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890), staying in Auvers starting on May 20, 1890 liked the country town with its artistic pedigree (Corot, Daubigny,…
LOW COUNTRIES. Flemish art in the 15th Century.
FEATURE Image: Petrus Christus (c. 1395-1472), Pietà, c. 1455–60. 39 ¾ x 75 ½ inches, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels. Brief Introduction to Flemish art in the 15th century. Flemish art, as the name suggests, originates in Flanders which includes the Low Countries (Netherlands and Belgium) as well as northeastern France. The…
BRITAIN. James McNeill Whistler’s favorite contemporary British artist: ALBERT JOSEPH MOORE (1841–1893). Four meticulously painted large-format visions of human figures in a mysterious, at once ancient and modern, idealized natural world that pursued beauty.
FEATURE image: Albert Joseph Moore (1841-1893), READING ALOUD, 1884, oil on canvas, 42.24 x 81 in., Glasgow Art Gallery & Museum. INTRO: Albert Joseph Moore was born in 1841 into a family of artists in North Yorkshire in England. Moore through his own advanced aesthetic experiments in the milieu of theoretical and practical advancements of…
UNITED STATES. My Art Photography: JOAN MIRÓ (1893-1983, Spanish), Joan Miró’s Chicago, 1967 (installed 1981), Chicago, Illinois.
FEATURE image: Joan Miró, Joan Miró’s Chicago (sometimes Miss Chicago), steel reinforced-concrete, colored ceramics, 1967, Brunswick Building Plaza, 69 W. Washington Street, Chicago. This artwork is Miró’s only monumental sculpture. Text & artwork photograph by author. Joan Miró (1893-1983) is a Catalan who is a major dadaist artist “Dada” is a nonsense word but its…
FRANCE. My Art Photography: Cathédrale de Chartres, ROYAL (WEST) PORTAL (12th century), anonymous, Chartres, France.
FEATURE image: “Chartres, North Porch, Central Portal, LeftJamb” by profzucker is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. The North Porch was constructed at the start of the 13th century. The North Porch, like the North Rose Window (below) crafted in the same time, depicts the glories of the Virgin Mary along with Old Testament figures. I visited Chartres Cathedral…
UNITED STATES. My Art Photography: Gettysburg National Military Park, PA, 1888 bronze of Brigadier General Gouverneur Kemble Warren by Karl Gerhardt (1853-1940).
FEATURE image: Brigadier General Gouverneur Kemble Warren, 1888, by Karl Gerhardt. Gettysburg National Military Park. Author’s photograph taken in April 2006 (65%). One of Gettysburg’s most famous statues among the park’s many hundreds of monuments, markers and plaques, Gouverneur (his first name, not his title) Kemble Warren (1830-1882) was a civil engineer and U.S Army…
UNITED STATES. My Art Photography: THE WORKER, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), 2001, Willow Springs, Illinois. (7 Photos & Illustrations).
FEATURE Image: Cook/DuPage Cos., Willow Springs, IL. The Worker, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Camp Chicago-Lemont, Company 612, est. June 4, 1933. Author’s photograph, 6/2018 6mb. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a major program in President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. Called “Mr. Roosevelt’s Tree Army,” there were over 50 such camps in Illinois alone and over…
UNITED STATES. My Art Photography: Bronze, 1930, Capt. A. Lincoln, Illinois Volunteer Militia, Black Hawk War, 1832, by LEONARD CRUNELLE (1872-1944), on the Rock River in Dixon, Illinois.
FEATURE image: The large bronze statue was the first prominent public depiction of the 16th U.S. president as a young adult man. Author’s photograph, June 2017. 4.70mb. Capt. Illinois in the early 1830s was the edge of the American frontier and virtually wilderness. The Native American tribes were being expelled from the northern tier of…
FRANCE. French art in the 17th Century: SIMON VOUET (1590-1649).
https://johnpwalshblog.com/2022/12/07/french-art-in-the-17th-century-simon-vouet-1590-1649/ FEATURE Image: Simon Vouet (1590-1649), Self-portrait, c. 1626–1627, Musée des Beaux-arts de Lyon. https://www.mba-lyon.fr/fr/article/simon-vouet In Simon Vouet’s self portrait painted in his final years in Rome he displays his signature rapid brushwork and desire for movement in the picture. Simon Vouet was born into modest circumstances in Paris on January 9, 1590. After stays…
FRANCE. French art in the 17th Century: VALENTIN DE BOULOGNE (1591-1632).
FEATURE IMAGE: Valentin de Boulogne (1591-1632), Allegory of Rome, 1628, oil on canvas, 330 x 245 cm, Villa Lante (Institutum Romanum Finlandiae Foundation). Villa Lante in Rome is an example of the work of the 16th century Raphael school in the reign of the Medici popes. The Renaissance villa, which was a residence for Roman…
UNITED STATES. My Art Photography: RICHARD HUNT (1935-2023, American), We Will, 2005, Chicago, Illinois.
Chicagoan Richard Hunt has over 150 large-scale installations around the world. Since 2005, Richard Hunt’s We Will has stood proudly on the sidewalk by the intersection of Randolph Street and Garland Court near Chicago’s Cultural Center and Millennium Park. We Will stands 35 feet tall and is made of welded stainless steel. The public art…
UNITED STATES. My Art Photography: ALEXANDER CALDER (American, 1898-1976), Flamingo (1974), Federal Center Plaza, Chicago, Illinois.
FEATURE Image: Flamingo by Alexander Calder is a masterwork stabile in Chicago’s downtown. It was unveiled on October 25, 1974 in a dedication ceremony with the artist. It is one of Chicago’s iconic outdoor public artworks. 6/2022 7.73 mb In downtown Chicago’s Federal Center Plaza on South Dearborn Street between Adams Street and Jackson Boulevard…
FRANCE. French Impressionist EUGÈNE BOUDIN (1824-1898) who Camille Corot called “King of The Skies!”
FEATURE image: Eugène Boudin, The Beach at Villerville, 1864, Oil on canvas, 18 × 30 1/16 in. (45.7 × 76.4 cm), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. In 1893, in the last years of his long and successful art career, 69-year-old Eugène Boudin returned to the Normandy coast for which this French painter of skies…
FRANCE. French art in the 16th Century.
FEATURE image: Ulysses and Penelope, Francesco Primaticcio called Le Primatice (1504-1570), Toledo Museum of Art, c. 1560, oil on canvas, 44 3/4 x 48 3/4 in. (113.6 x 123.8 cm). Jean Perréal’s most important attribution is this portrait of Louis XII who was King of France from 1498 to 1515. Louis XII was married three…
FRANCE. French art in the 15th Century.
FEATURE image: DETAIL, Henri Bellechose (1415-1440), École de Bourgogne, Retable de saint Denis, 1416, https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010063178 Retable de Saint Denis, (above), was completed in 1416 for the church of the Charterhouse of Champmol that is adjacent to Dijon. The artwork’s attribution has long been debated between Bellechose and Jean Malouel (1370-1415). Written evidence points to Bellechose possibly only…
UNITED STATES. My Art Photography: BIAGIO GOVERNALI, Bronze Doors, Mysteries of the Rosary (2004)—Shrine of Our Lady of Pompeii, Chicago, IL.
FEATURE IMAGE: CENTRAL Bronze Door -Sorrowful Mysteries panel (detail), The Shrine of Our Lady of Pompeii, Chicago. 12/2013 1.55 mb INTRODUCTION. Our Lady of Pompeii was originally established in Chicago in 1911 as an Italian national parish. The present church building at 1224 West Lexington Street in Chicago’s westside University Village/Little Italy neighborhood was constructed…
UNITED STATES. My Art Photography: JACOB WATTS (b., American), Moose Bubblegum Bubble, 2014, 33 E. Congress (South Wall), Chicago, Illinois.
Jacob Watts is a photographer and visual storyteller based in Chicago, Illinois. A graduate of Oswego (Illinois) High School (class of 2008), Watts received his B.F.A. from Columbia College Chicago in 2012. The photo-illustration of a moose blowing bubblegum hangs on a blue wall in the South Loop of Downtown Chicago at a size of…
UNITED STATES. My Art Photography: RUTH AIZUSS MIGDAL (b. 1932, American), Here, 2012, Chicago, Illinois.
Ruth Aizuss Migdal was born in Chicago. The artist was educated at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (B.F.A.) and the University of Illinois at Urbana (M.F.A). Migdal was awarded an honorary doctorate from U of I, her alma mater, in 2019. Classically educated and trained in painting and printmaking, initially she created…
Painting and graphic art of EDVARD MUNCH (1863-1944), Norway’s Symbolist/Expressionist Artist who, making “The Scream” depicted the individual’s anguish in modern society.
FEATURE image: Edvard Munch, The Scream, 1895, pastel on cardboard, private collection. By John P. Walsh Edvard Munch (1863-1944) was a Symbolist and Expressionist artist from Norway. In the 1890s, anti-naturalism mainly took the form of Symbolism – that is, the fascination with many types of literature and the inclination to draw upon these sources…
UNITED STATES. My Art Photography: EDUARDO KOBRA (b. 1975, Brazil), Muddy Waters, King of the Blues (2017), 17 N. State Street, Chicago, Illinois.
FEATURE image: Muddy Waters, King of the Chicago Blues, by Brazilian artist Eduardo Kobra in a photograph taken in May 2021. The 10-story mural tribute was painted in 2017 and is located on State Street in Downtown Chicago. This 100-foot-tall (10 stories) mural of legendary Chicago blues musician Muddy Waters (1913-1983) was dedicated in June…
UNITED STATES. My Art Photography: BOB MANGOLD (b. 1930, American), Anemotive Kinetic, Rockford, Illinois.
As a kinetic (movement) artist, Mangold’s sculptures explore concepts of space and motion. In 1962, Mangold began his Anemotive series of spherical, wind-propelled kinetic sculptures. As with this art installation in Rockford, Anemotive Kinetic, the anemotives are characterized by cup-like shapes mounted on arms which allow for motion in nature. text&photo:
UNITED STATES. My Art Photography: JERRY PEART (b. 1948, American), Wildflower, Rockford, Illinois.
Nicholas Conservatory & Gardens along the Rock River in Rockford, Illinois. opened in October 2011. It offers a main exhibition house, greenhouses, classrooms, a roof garden, a lagoon, walking trails, outdoor gardens, and more. The 20-foot painted aluminum sculpture called Wildflower in a fountain setting stands near the entrance of the conservatory & gardens. Jerry…
SPAIN. My Art Photography: PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973, Spanish). Gift to the People – The Chicago Picasso in Daley Plaza (1967).
FEATURE image: Chicago’s Picasso in Daley Plaza. Author’s photograph (July 2015). Chicago’s “Picasso” in today’s downtown Daley Plaza was officially unveiled on Tuesday, August 15,…
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JAPAN. UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1858). Ukiyo-e Master.
FEATURE image: Memorial Portrait of Hiroshige, 1858, Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865), Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Hiroshige is best known for his horizontal-format landscape series The…
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UNITED STATES. My Art Photography: MARION KRYCZKA (b., American). Chevy Dealership: A Tribute to Route 66 (2007), Joliet, Illinois.
FEATURE image: Chevy Dealership: A Tribute to Route 66, 2007, 396 N. Chicago Street, Joliet, Illinois. Tribute mural on Motor Row. Joliet, Illinois, is a…
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RUSSIA. From 1889 to the Blue Rider in Munich in 1911, Russian émigré artist ALEXEI VON JAWLENSKY (1864-1941) and the origins of German Expressionist Painting.
FEATURE Image: Jawlensky, Hügel (Hills), 1912, oil on hardboard, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund. Alexei von Jawlensky (1864-1941), Russian-émigré German Expressionist painter. SUMMARY: Alexei von Jawlensky…
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FRANCE. My Art Photography: MARC CHAGALL (1887-1985, Belarusian-French), Four Seasons, 1974, Chase Tower Plaza, Chicago, Illinois.
Feature Image: East side (detail), Marc Chagall, Four Seasons, 1972, Chase Tower Plaza, Chicago. 5/2014 7.44 mb 92%. Composed of thousands of inlaid chips in…
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ITALY. Italian art in the 13th-18th Centuries.
FEATURE image: Dosso Dossi (c. 1489–1542), Melissa, 1520s. 69.25 x 68.5 inches, Borghese Gallery, Rome. Duccio Di Buoninsegna (c.1255-c.1319). The artistic tradition of the Sienese…
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ITALY. In Florence, THE BATTLE OF ANGHIARI (1503-06) by Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) and his fabled competition with Michelangelo for the laurel of Greatest High Renaissance Artist.
FEATURE image: Peter Paul Rubens, Copy of Leonardo’s Battle of the Standard (from the Battle of Anghiari), 1603, Louvre. On May 2, 2019, the world…
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UNITED STATES. My Art Photography: GAMALIEL RAMIREZ (1949-2018, Puerto Rico), Sea of Flags (2004). Street mural in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood.
FEATURE Image: Sea of Flags, Gamaliel Ramirez, 2004, Humboldt Park, Chicago. The mural entitled Sea of Flags depicts Fiesta Boricua (De Bandera a Bandera), an…
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UNITED STATES. My Art Photography: THE SHRINE OF CHRIST’S PASSION, St. John, Indiana. (73 Photos & Video).
FEATURE image: (detail) Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene, John 20:11-18. INTRODUCTION One hour’s drive (about 40 miles) south of downtown Chicago—and 90 minutes drive from…
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UNITED STATES. LEE MILLER (1907-1977), Photographer, Surrealist, and Aesthete, Part 1: the Poughkeepsie years, 1907-1925.
FEATURE image: The Millers in 1920. Lee, Erik, Theodore, Florence and John. The Millers, Theodore, Elizabeth Lee, Erik, John and Florence, in 1923. By John…
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FRANCE. Photographic Portraits by NADAR (1820-1910) of 19th Century French Cultural Figures in Paris.
FEATURE image: Nadar, Rosine Stolz (1815-1903), Paris, c.1857. Rosine Stoltz was a French mezzo-soprano. By John P. Walsh. This presentation is excerpted from content of university…
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FRANCE. Dans Le Vieux Paris: EUGÈNE ATGET (1857-1927), photographer.
FEATURE image: Eugène Atget, Place Saint-Médard, 1889-99. Eugène Atget, Photographer’s Studio, c. 1910. Atget was born in 1857 near Bordeaux (Libourne) and after his parents…
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UNITED STATES. My Art Photography: OVER THE TOP TO VICTORY or “Doughboy,” 1921, in Wheaton, Illinois, by John Paulding (American, 1883-1935).
FEATURE image: Over the Top to Victory (“Doughboy”), 1921, John Paulding, Memorial Park, Wheaton, Illinois. “Over the Top to Victory” is a bronze sculpture that…
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FRANCE. COMPLETE 31 Mass-Produced COLOR Posters, 1891-1900, of HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (1864-1901).
FEATURE image: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), La Revue Blanche, 1895, Paris. Lithograph in four colors. By John P. Walsh The nineteenth century in France brought…
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FRANCE. Martyr-Maid of France, St. JOAN OF ARC (1412-1431), in paintings.
FEATURE image: King’s Coronation at Reims Cathedral. France was divided in the early 15th century when a teenage girl called Joan of Arc heard her…
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BRITAIN. HANS HOLBEIN THE YOUNGER (German, 1497-1543): Humanist Portraits in England, 1526-1528.
Featured Image: Self-Portrait, Hans Holbein the Younger, 1542/3, black and colored chalks, 23 x 18 cm, Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi. This is the only confirmed self portrait…
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UNITED STATES. Former Miss Denmark to Playboy Model DANE ARDEN (ELSA SØRENSEN) poses as a carhop in a 1950’s Glamour Photograph. Historical Context.
FEATURE image: “Galaxy Carhop” by JackAZ Photo is marked with CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. By John P. Walsh Dane Arden (1934-2013) was an international magazine model in the 1950’s and…
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BRITAIN. Complete signed, dated, documented, inscribed artwork (33 paintings) of MARCUS GHEERAERTS THE YOUNGER (c. 1562-1636).
FEATURE image: Detail, Queen Elizabeth I. Ditchley portrait. Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, 1592. Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, Captain Thomas Lee in Irish Dress, oil on…
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UNITED STATES. JOHN SINGER SARGENT (1856-1925, American): Portraits of the 1870’s and 1880’s.
FEATURE image: Margaret Stuyvesant Rutherfurd White (Mrs. Henry White), 1883, oil on canvas, 225.1 × 143.8 cm (88 5/8 × 56 5/8 in.), National Gallery…
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SPAIN. Francisco de GOYA (1746-1828), Madrid, Spain, First Suites of Tapestry Cartoons for the Princes of Asturias, 1775 to 1778.
FEATURED image: Francisco de Goya (1746-1828), The Kite (detail), 1777/78. Oil on canvas, 269 x 285 cm. These are a selection of the first two suites…
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UNITED STATES. Works of DAVID ADLER (1882-1949), Chicago Beaux-Arts architect of “the Great House.”
FEATURE image: Staff members of The Charles A. Stonehill Estate on the beach, c. 1912. By John P. Walsh David Adler (January 3, 1882 – September…
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FRANCE. My Art Photography: The Art Institute of Chicago’s Grand Staircase, ENCHAINED ACTION (1906) by ARISTIDE MAILLOL (1861-1944).
N.B. When this post was published in July 2016, Aristide Maillol’s Enchained Action — a torso cast in bronze and created in 1905 in France…
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LOW COUNTRIES. Review: VAN GOGH’S BEDROOMS, The Art Institute of Chicago, February 14-May 10, 2016.
FEATURE image: The Bedroom (1889) by Vincent Van Gogh. Original from the Art Institute of Chicago. “The Bedroom (1889) by Vincent Van Gogh. Original from…
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FRANCE. OVIRI (SAVAGE), the mysterious she-wolf figure exhibited in Paris in 1895 by PAUL GAUGUIN (1848-1903).
FEATURE image: Paul Gauguin, Oviri (Savage),1894, stone, 75 x 19 x 27 cm, Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Public Domain. By John P. Walsh By 1887 French…
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FRANCE. Tahitians Fishing/Tahitian Landscape/Tahitian Idol the Goddess Hina. Three monotypes produced in Paris inspired by Tahiti, 1893-1895, by PAUL GAUGUIN (1848-1903).
FEATURE Image: Paul Gauguin, Tahitian Idol-The Goddess Hina, 1894/95 – woodcut in black ink, over ochre and red, with touches of white and green inks,…
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FRANCE. Savagery In Civilization: Tahiti-inspired graphic art in Paris, 1893-1895, by PAUL GAUGUIN (1848-1903).
FEATURE image: Gauguin, Self-Portrait with Palette, winter 1893-94 or 1894-95, 92 x 73 cm (35 7/8 x 28 1/2 in.), private collection. By John P.…
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BRITAIN. Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792).
FEATURE image: Reginald Pole, 1743-44, 76 x 86.5 cm, Trustees of the Carew Pole Family Trusts, Antony House, Cornwall. See no. 2 below for the…
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ITALY. Art of Connoisseurship, or How THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO’S TITIAN PAINTING was revealed to be artwork by an “Imitator.”
FEATURE image: Allegory of Venus and Cupid, c. 1600, Imitator of Titian (Tiziano Vecellio, Italian, c. 1485/90-1576), oil on canvas, 51 1/8 x 61 1/8…
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SPAIN. Review: PICASSO AND CHICAGO, The Art Institute of Chicago, February 20–May 12, 2013.
FEATURE image: Pablo Picasso IN STUDIO, c. 1915. Public Domain. Armory Show, International Exhibition of Modern Art. The Cubist room, Gallery 53 (northeast view), Art…
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