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The Fraser Gallery was either of two Washington, D.C. (1996-2011) or Bethesda, Maryland (2002-2011) art galleries founded by Catriona Fraser, [1] an expatriate British photographer and art dealer in Washington.
Fraser established the Fraser Gallery in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC in 1996 when she was 25 years old. [1] She opened a second gallery in nearby Bethesda, Maryland, part of the Greater Washington, DC region in 2002. [3] [4] [5] The galleries closed in 2011.
Bethesda Fountain is the central feature on the lower level of the terrace. The pool is centered by a fountain sculpture designed by Emma Stebbins in 1868 and unveiled in 1873. [ 29 ] Also called the Angel of the Waters , the statue refers to the biblical healing of a disabled man at Bethesda , a story from the Gospel of John about an angel ...
Merritt, the house's second owner, engaged Davis as his architect, and in 1864–1865 doubled the size of the house, renaming it "Lyndenhurst" after the estate's linden trees. Davis' new north wing included an imposing four-story tower, a new porte-cochere (the old one was reworked as a glass-walled vestibule), a new dining room, two bedrooms ...
A Friendly Call is an oil-on-canvas painting executed in 1895 by the American painter William Merritt Chase. It was acquired by the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., in 1943 as part of the Chester Dale collection. [1]
The Blue Kimono, 1914, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma; One of a number of Chase's paintings with Oriental motifs and inspired by Diego Velázquez and seventeenth-century Dutch masters, a fleeting moment is captured with the model striking a "studious yet captured pose", according to the painting's description at the Philbrook Museum of Art Web site.
Armia Khalil carved out of a single piece of ash wood over the course of five months. Now, its on display in an exhibit at the Met, where he works as a security guard.
Merritt escaped censure by choosing a child to portray Cupid, rather than an adult, such as her Eve had been. [2] As a notable work by an American painter, Love Locked Out was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World. [3] The title also became the title for the compilation of Anna Lea Merritt's memoirs, published by Galina ...