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Alain J. Picard (born April 30, 1974) is an American figurative, landscape, and portrait pastel painter, art instructor, and writer.He resides in Southbury, Connecticut. [1] [2] He has lectured and demonstrated at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Arts Club in New York City, Vose Galleries in Boston, Massachusetts, the International Association of Pastel Societies Convention in ...
Cassatt's compelling motivation in her images of children was their care, reflecting the most advanced ideas of the time concerning maternity and the raising of children. The pastel Mother and Child, for example, continues her Degas-like preoccupation with pattern but primarily addresses the strong emotional bond between mother and child. [18]
30 in x 25 in (76.2 cm x 63.5 cm) Subject: Elizabeth Tyson Russell (as child). Study for Portrait of My Daughters: pastel on paper: 1907: 19.1 in x 15.1 in (48.5 cm x 38.4 cm) SIRIS Collection Number 20110007 [3] Portrait of My Daughters: oil on canvas: 1907: Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
The use of crayon or pastel sticks of ground pigments in various levels of saturation is also considered a highly skilled colourist's domain, as it requires knowledge of drawing techniques. Like oils, crayons and pastels generally obscure the original photograph, which produces portraits more akin to traditional paintings.
List of paintings created during 1858–1871 1872–1878 1878–1881 1881–1883 1884 1884–1888 1888 1888–1898 1899–1904 1900–1926 This is a list of works by Claude Monet (1840–1926), including all the extant finished paintings but excluding the Water Lilies, which can be found here, and preparatory black and white sketches. Monet was a founder of French impressionist painting, and ...
One of Gegoux's finest portraits is a "The Portrait of Two Sisters" 1908, which is a portrait of Agnes Louis Flanders (1905–1979) and Helen Mary Flanders (1903–1994) commissioned by their grandfather and executed in oil on canvas. [19] One of Gegoux's finest pastel works is the "Keewaydin Mansion in Moonlight" c. 1895.
Henrietta Door, 1814, Princeton University Art Museum, an example of Phillips's earlier work. Phillips was born in Colebrook, Connecticut, on April 24, 1788, to Samuel Phillips (1760–1842), a farmer by trade and veteran of the Revolutionary war, and Millea Phillips (1763–1861), as one of eleven children, beginning a life that spanned the period from George Washington's presidency to the ...
The family traveled throughout New England region as itinerant portrait painters, looking for work and making inexpensive copies from the originals portraits they had made of popular and well-known figures, such as George Washington and James Madison. The Sharples family built both a reputation for accurate portraits and a modest fortune.