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American Gothic is a 1930 oil on beaverwood painting by the American Regionalist artist Grant Wood.Depicting a Midwestern farmer and his daughter standing in front of their Carpenter Gothic style home, American Gothic is one of the most famous American paintings of the 20th century and is frequently referenced in popular culture.
A Rake's Progress (or The Rake's Progress) is a series of eight paintings by 18th-century English artist William Hogarth. [1] The canvases were produced in 1732–1734, then engraved in 1734 and published in print form in 1735. [ 2 ]
Soon after, Hogarth published his second series of satirical and moralistic images, A Rake's Progress, [5] followed ten years later by Marriage à-la-mode. [ 6 ] The original paintings were destroyed in a fire at Fonthill House in 1755, the country house of William Beckford (1709–1770), a politician and father of William Thomas Beckford (1 ...
This portrait, and his unfinished oil sketch of a young fishwoman, entitled The Shrimp Girl (National Gallery, London), [54] may be called masterpieces of British painting. There are also portraits of his wife, his two sisters, and of many other people; among them Bishop Hoadly and Bishop Herring .
The Shrimp Girl is a painting by the English artist William Hogarth.It was painted around 1740–1745, and is held by the National Gallery, London. [1]The painting, a relatively late work by Hogarth, is one of several in which he experimented with a loose, almost impressionistic style comparable to the work of Fragonard.
While you may be quick to answer that there are clearly two girls depicted in the image, a closer examination of their bracelets (and their "reflection's" bracelets) might make you start to second ...
Netflix has dropped their newest true crime doc, Girl in the Picture.Strap in, because this one’s a doozy. Basically, the documentary covers the crimes of Franklin Delano Floyd (a.k.a Clarence ...
Chuck Donovan is a not so successful agent in New York who is hired by some television producers for a special job. He is to find the real identity of the woman who modeled for commercial sketch artist Bob Randolph as he created the famous "Randolph Girl". No one besides Randolph, not even the artist's secretary, Miss Brooks, has ever met the ...