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A Girl with a Watering Can is an 1876 Impressionist oil painting on canvas by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. The work was apparently painted in Claude Monet's famous garden at Argenteuil, and may portray one of the girls in Renoir's neighborhood in a blue dress holding a watering can. [1] The painting is in the National Gallery of Art, in Washington, D.C..
The Joy of Painting is an American half-hour instructional television show. Created and hosted by painter Bob Ross, it ran from January 11, 1983, to May 17, 1994. In most episodes, Ross taught techniques for landscape oil painting, completing a painting in each session. Occasionally, episodes featured a guest artist who would demonstrate a ...
The painting was one of 18 works by Monet exhibited at the second Impressionist exhibition in April 1876, at the gallery of Paul Durand-Ruel.Ten years later, Monet returned to a similar subject, painting a pair of scenes featuring his second wife's daughter Suzanne Monet in 1886 with a parasol in a meadow at Giverny; they are in the Musée d'Orsay.
A Girl in the Street, Two Coaches in the Background Artist Vincent van Gogh Year 1882 Catalogue F13 JH179 Medium Oil on canvas on panel Dimensions 42.0 cm × 53.0 cm (16.5 in × 20.9 in) Location Villa Flora, Winterthur A Girl in the Street, Two Coaches in the Background (F13, JH179) is an oil painting by Vincent van Gogh. It is one of his very early works, painted in The Hague in August 1882 ...
Girl in White in the Woods Artist Vincent van Gogh Year 1882 Catalogue F8 JH182 Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 39.0 cm × 59.0 cm (15.4 in × 23.2 in) Location Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo Girl in White in the Woods is an oil painting created in 1882 by Vincent van Gogh. Of a study that Van Gogh made for Girl in a Wood or Girl in White in the Woods, he remarked at how much he enjoyed the ...
Girls in Green, also known as Girls under Trees, is an oil-on-canvas painting by the German painter August Macke, executed in 1914. It depicts a number of girls among the trees on the edge of a lake, where the color areas of the figures and the environment seem to merge. The painting is in the collection of the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich.
In Thomas Wolfe's 1929 novel Look Homeward, Angel, the protagonist Eugene Gant wins a prize for writing an essay on the painting. In February 2014, actor Bill Murray said at a press event for the film, The Monuments Men , that a chance encounter with The Song of the Lark at the Art Institute of Chicago helped him in his early career when he was ...
Images of peasant girls spinning wool were a popular subject and appeared frequently in the works of nineteenth century artists, to whom the theme offered opportunities to romanticize rural life, document regional costume, as well as conjure up the iconography of Clotho and the Fates or Moirai of classical mythology, who are primeval goddesses that spin, apportion and eventually cut the thread ...