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THE STUFF OF MYTH
Unidentified Man, J.C. Leyendecker, Unidentified Woman, and Norman Rockwell, April, 1925Photo by White Studio, New York, New York.Norman Rockwell Museum Collectionsleifpeng's photostreamSartorial...
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DUTCH CARAVAGGISSTI
Hendrick Jansz ter Brugghen (or Terbrugghen) (b. 1588 probably The Hague, The Netherlands, d. 1629 Utrecht, The Netherlands) was a Dutch painter, and a leading member of the Dutch followers of...
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IMAGES OF THE DOMESTIC WOMAN
Edward Antoon Portielje (1861 - 1949), a late nineteenth-, early twentieth-century Belgian painter from Antwerp, showed an interest in seemingly disparate subjects; on the one hand, his images of the...
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THE HOMECOMING
The Homecoming From wallpapers-free.co.uk The May 26, 1945 SEP CoverFrom platytera.blogspot.comNorman Rockwell, typically topical, shows us an American serviceman returning home to his loved ones...
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NO SWIMMING
No Swimming The Saturday Evening Post, June 4, 1921 (cover) Oil on canvas The Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge (Massachusetts) From .artchive.com These boys sure are hightailing it out of there!...
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GLADIATOR
Pollice Verso, 1872 Thumbs Down Source phxart.org : Gallery Current Loc Phoenix Art Museum From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Pollice verso or verso pollice is a Latin phrase, meaning "with a turned...
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GASSED
'Gassed', 1918 Current Loc Imperial War Museum London Source jssgallery.org From en.wikipedia.org Gassed From travel.webshots.com In 1918, the British Ministry of Information commissioned the American...
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THE GARE SAINT-LAZARE
The Gare Saint Lazare, 1876 huile sur toile. ParisMusée d'Orsay From cartage.org.lb After his return to France from London, Monet lived from 1871-78 at Argenteuil, on the Seine near Paris. In...
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HIDE AND SEEK
Hide and Seek, 1877 Oil on wood Source and Loc National Gallery of ArtWashington, D.C., USA From ibiblio.org Several children are playing a game of hide and seek in the home and studio of the French...
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NAPOLEON CROSSING THE ALPS
Napoleon on Horseback at the St. Bernard Pass, 1800 Napoleon Crossing the AlpsCurrent Loc Musée national du château de Malmaison R.M.N. Rueil-Malmaison, France Source histoire-image.org From...
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THE MILKMAID
The Milkmaid, c. 1658 The Kitchen Maid Current Loc Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Source artchive.com From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Milkmaid (De Melkmeid or Het Melkmeisje), sometimes called The...
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OPHELIA
Ophelia is a fictional character in the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare. She is a young noblewoman of Denmark, the daughter of Polonius, sister of Laertes, and potential wife of Prince Hamlet. In...
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SPRINGS
Spring 1894 The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center From wikipaintings.org Spring, (1894) depicts the festival of Cerealia in a Roman street. One of Tadema's most famous and popular works, it took...
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WATER LILIES
Claude Monet (CLAWD maw NEH) (1840–1926) was born in Paris, France. Even as a young teenager it became apparent that he had artistic ability. He would draw caricatures of his teachers on his...
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MINUTE MAN
Minute Man Date: June 6, 1929 Copyright: 1929 SEPS. All Rights Reserved from saturdayeveningpostcovers.comAlthough the terms militia and minutemen are sometimes used interchangeably today, in the 18th...
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GEORGE WASHINGTON AT VALLEY FORGE
George Washington at Valley Forge From jcleyendecker.tumblr.com In the fall of 1777, General George Washington's Continental Army moved south from New Jersey to defend the capital of Philadelphia from...
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AMERICAN MASTER
Richard Schmid (born 1934 in Chicago, IL) is an American realist painter and author. His earliest artistic influence came from his maternal grandfather, Julian Oates, an architectural sculptor....
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GREE-LEE
Martin Grelle In his Studio From cowboyartistsofamerica.com Whether painting the Native Americans in a dramatic, picturesque setting, or the American cowboy in the dusty cattle-working pens, Martin...
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REMBRANDT SELF PORTRAIT
Rembrandt Self-Portrait with Velvet Beret, 1634 Current Loc Gemäldegalerie, Berlin From commons.wikimedia.org Very few artists of the modern period have left as many self-portraits as Rembrandt van...
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IVAN AIVAZOVSKY
Ivan AivazovskyFrom tanais.info\Self-portrait, 1874From citelighter.comIvan Aivazovsky's success was well-earned, for no other artist managed to capture with such brilliance, conviction and apparent...
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