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Mountains and Sea is a 1952 painting by American abstract expressionist painter Helen Frankenthaler. [2] [3] Painted when Frankenthaler was 23 years old, it was her first professionally exhibited work. [4] Though initially panned by critics, Mountains and Sea later became her most influential and best known canvas. [5] [6]
Connemara Girl (National Gallery of Ireland) A Connemara Girl is an early 1870s painting by the Irish artist Augustus Nicholas Burke (July 28, 1838 – 1891). [1] One of the most identifiable paintings in Ireland, it depicts a young girl in traditional Connemara attire carrying a bundle near the shore. It is one of many paintings Burke created ...
[1] [2] It is a prominent example of the shanshui genre, dedicated to mountains and waterscapes done with brush and ink from the era, and is the only extant surviving piece by Zhao Gan. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] From the seal impressions annotating the piece, it was a prominent piece in the collections of Chinese imperial families across multiple dynasties.
drypoint etching/print: 1918: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH: 8 in x 5.9 in (20.3 cm x 15 cm) Portrait of Augustus Hemenway: drypoint etching on laid paper/print: 1919: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA: 9 in x 7 in (22.9 cm x 17.8 cm) Hemenway (1853–1931) was a Bostonian philanthropist and public ...
Christina's World is a 1948 painting by American painter Andrew Wyeth and one of the best-known American paintings of the mid-20th century. It is a tempera work done in a realist style, depicting a woman in an incline position on the ground in a treeless, mostly tawny field, looking up at a gray house on the horizon, a barn, and various other small outbuildings are adjacent to the house. [1]
The theme of the painting is a walk in the park. Macke had developed this favorite motive since the beginning of his career. The artist creates around the characters a world in which the people seem to match their stylized environment: the ladies appear in elegant tight dresses and fashionable hats while men wear dark suits and bowler hats.
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In a vertical oval-shaped painting, the only character represented is a young girl dressed in a low-cut white dress with balloon sleeves. She is holding an armful of roses in one side of her apron, she also wears a ribbon with three flowers, and has a rose on her bodice. She carries the broken vessel, the object of the painting, on her right arm.