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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.
The Angelus (French: L'Angélus) is an oil painting by French painter Jean-François Millet, completed between 1857 and 1859.. The painting depicts two peasants bowing in a field over a basket of potatoes to say a prayer, the Angelus, that together with the ringing of the bell from the church on the horizon marks the end of a day's work.
The Chicago Picasso, 1967 In 1964, Pablo Picasso approved the construction of one of his sculptures, depicting his wife Jacqueline, to be erected in Kristinehamn (Sweden) at Strandudden by lake Vänern. Carl Nesjar was commissioned to carry out the construction. The Picasso sculpture in Kristinehamn Sweden was inaugurated in 1965, is 15 meters high, and is the largest Picasso sculpture in the ...
Portrait of a 41-year-old Man, possibly Pieter Sijen: 1633: Oil on panel: 69.3 x 54.8: Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena: 119a: Companion piece to 119b Portrait of a 40-year-old Woman, possibly Marretje Cornelisdr van Grotewal: 1634: Oil on panel: 69 x 55: Speed Art Museum, Louisville: 119b: Companion piece to 119a Portrait of Maerten Soolmans ...
Egyptian Fellah Woman with her Child, at and by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann Adoration of the Magi , by Fra Angelico and Filippo Lippi (edited by Coldcreation ) The Denial of St. Peter , at and by Gerard Seghers
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 Son of Man (French: Le fils de l'homme) is a 1964 painting by the Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte. It is perhaps his best-known artwork. [1] Magritte painted it as a self-portrait. [2] The painting consists of a man in an overcoat and a bowler hat standing in front of a low wall, beyond which are the sea and a cloudy sky. The man ...