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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]
Maria covers her face with her hand against the sun shining in front and seems to be reading a book lying in front of her on the meadow. The mountains of the Bavarian Prealps are shown in the background . The light colors are applied with a broad brushstroke. Instead of a lifelike reproduction, Marc captures the mood of the scene.
Girls in Green, also known as Girls under Trees, is an oil-on-canvas painting by the German painter August Macke, executed in 1914. It depicts a number of girls among the trees on the edge of a lake, where the color areas of the figures and the environment seem to merge. The painting is in the collection of the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich.
Susie M. Barstow was the daughter of old-time New York City tea merchant Samuel Barstow (1805-1884) and Mary Tyler Blossom (1813-1895), whose lineage traces back to one of the original passengers of the Mayflower.
The branches of the trees extend from each other almost at right angles; their drawing was borrowed by Macke from the A Treatise on Painting, compiled from the theoretical works of Leonardo da Vinci. Macke studied the book at his stay in Berlin in 1907–1908, during his studies with fellow painter Lovis Corinth. The houses on both banks of the ...
Labeled as Portrait of a Girl, the piece sold for $1.4 million in an auction. "On house calls, we often go in blind, not knowing what we'll find," Veilleux told the Associated Press .
Brenda Irene Chamberlain (17 March 1912 – 11 July 1971) was a Welsh artist, poet and writer. She won the first two Gold Medals awarded by the National Eisteddfod of Wales in the Fine Art category, for her paintings Girl with a Siamese Cat (1951) and The Cristin Children (1953), and her written works include Tide-race, a memoir of 15 years spent living on Bardsey Island.
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