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The woman is dressed in a colonial print apron evoking 20th-century rural Americana while the man is adorned in overalls covered by a suit jacket and carries a pitchfork. The plants on the porch of the house are mother-in-law's tongue and beefsteak begonia, which also appear in Wood's 1929 portrait of his mother, Woman with Plants. [4]
Grant Wood's boyhood home, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is listed as one of the most endangered historic sites in Iowa. [2]Wood was born in rural Iowa, 4 mi (6.43 km) east of Anamosa, on February 13, 1891, the son of Hattie DeEtte Weaver Wood and Francis Maryville Wood.
Blind Man's Bluff (French: Le collin maillard) is a painting by the French Rococo painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard, produced around 1750 in oil on canvas.It is held by the Toledo Museum of Art in Toledo, Ohio, United States, which purchased it with funds from the Libbey Endowment, a gift of the glass manufacturer Edward Libbey who founded the museum in 1901.
Painting Andrea Mantegna: St. Sebastian: Painting Andrea Mantegna: An Old Man and his Grandson: Painting Domenico Ghirlandaio: Pastoral Concert: Painting Titian: Madonna of the Rabbit: Painting Titian: Woman with a Mirror: Painting Titian: Venus and Cupid with a Satyr: Painting Antonio da Correggio: Susanna and the Elders: Painting Tintoretto ...
100 Great Paintings is a British television series broadcast in 1980 on BBC Two, devised by Edwin Mullins. [1] He chose 20 thematic groups, such as war, the Adoration , the language of colour, the hunt, and bathing, picking five paintings from each. [ 2 ]
Study of an Old Man's Head: 1883: Private collection, Switzerland 88: Head of an Old Man with Beard: 1883: Private collection 89: Study of an Old Man's Head: 1883: Burton Kassell 90: Afternoon at Olaf Rye's Square: 1883: Moderna Museet, Stockholm 91: Street Corner on Karl Johan, Grand Café: 1883: Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway 92: Christian Munch ...
The Ugly Duchess (also known as A Grotesque Old Woman) is a satirical portrait painted by the Flemish artist Quinten Matsys around 1513.. The painting is in oil on an oak panel, measuring 62.4 by 45.5 cm. [1] It shows an old woman with wrinkled skin and withered breasts.
The painting was executed two years after the revolutions of 1848 that provided a shock to the stable world embodied in the dusty solitude of the library. In the lower left corner of the painting an old faded globe can be seen; the bookworm is not interested in the outside world, but in the knowledge of the past.