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The painting shows a tired, faceless Black woman sitting on the edge of her bed about start her workday. The artist first conceived of the painting while getting ready to catch a bus to work on a cold winter morning. [9] As of 2011, Blue Monday was the most mass-produced and popular painting of the artist. [10]
Olympia is an 1863 oil painting by Édouard Manet, depicting a nude white woman ("Olympia") lying on a bed being attended to by a black maid. The French government acquired the painting in 1890 after a public subscription organized by Claude Monet. The painting is now in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
English: "Lady in Black" by William Merritt Chase (oil on canvas, 74 1/4 x 36 5/16 inches), ... Metropolitan Museum of Art: Permission (Reusing this file)
Sleeping Lady with Black Vase (Hungarian: Alvó nő fekete vázával) is a 1927–1928 oil painting by Róbert Berény. It is a depiction of the painter's wife reclining asleep in a blue dress behind a table on which is set a black vase. The painting was sold in 1928 and was considered lost after World War II.
The painting was initially purchased by Thomas B. Clarke, a private collector from New York. It changed hands again when Clarke sold his collection in 1899. It was then acquired by William T. Evans, who donated it to the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., where it was displayed under the title The Visit of the Mistress. [3]
William Edmondson (c. 1874–1951) was the first African-American folk art sculptor to be given a one-person show exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City (1937). Biography [ edit ]
The Black Boy, 1844 by William Lindsay Windus. The Black Boy is an 1844 painting by William Lindsay Windus in the collection of the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool, England. [1] The painting is an oil on canvas painting measuring 76.1 x 63.5cm and depicts a black child looking at the viewer. [2] He is wearing torn clothing. [1]
He was born in Liverpool, England, was initially taught art by William Daniels (1813–1880), then went on to study at the Liverpool Academy. On a visit to London in 1850 he became converted to the Pre-Raphaelite style. He exhibited his new style of painting with the work Burd Helen at the Royal Academy, London in 1856.