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"Untitled (Yellow House with Yellow Roses)," Matilda Browne, after 1918.
Browne (1869-1947) was an American Impressionist artist, and a noted member of the Old Lyme, CT artists' colony...in fact, the only female painter they took seriously.
She showed talent as a child, and luckily was a neighbor of Hudson School painter Thomas Moran, who taught the young Matilda and encouraged her gifts. By age 12 she had a painting accepted as part of an exhibit at the American Academy of Design.
She traveled Europe, where she learned from many significant painters, and returned to the US where she earned a reputation as a skilled artist of landscapes, animals, and florals. She also married author Frederick Van Wyck, and had a long and successful career.
Here's the house she lived in at Old Lyme, in the summer with the roses blooming...
Happy Flower Friday!
From a private collection.
#Art #MatildaBrowne #Impressionism #AmericanArt #WomenArtists #FlowerFriday
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"Untitled (Yellow House with Yellow Roses)," Matilda Browne, after 1918.
Browne (1869-1947) was an American Impressionist artist, and a noted member of the Old Lyme, CT artists' colony...in fact, the only female painter they took seriously.
She showed talent as a child, and luckily was a neighbor of Hudson School painter Thomas Moran, who taught the young Matilda and encouraged her gifts. By age 12 she had a painting accepted as part of an exhibit at the American Academy of Design.
She traveled Europe, where she learned from many significant painters, and returned to the US where she earned a reputation as a skilled artist of landscapes, animals, and florals. She also married author Frederick Van Wyck, and had a long and successful career.
Here's the house she lived in at Old Lyme, in the summer with the roses blooming...
Happy Flower Friday!
From a private collection.
#Art #MatildaBrowne #Impressionism #AmericanArt #WomenArtists #FlowerFriday
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"Untitled (Yellow House with Yellow Roses)," Matilda Browne, after 1918.
Browne (1869-1947) was an American Impressionist artist, and a noted member of the Old Lyme, CT artists' colony...in fact, the only female painter they took seriously.
She showed talent as a child, and luckily was a neighbor of Hudson School painter Thomas Moran, who taught the young Matilda and encouraged her gifts. By age 12 she had a painting accepted as part of an exhibit at the American Academy of Design.
She traveled Europe, where she learned from many significant painters, and returned to the US where she earned a reputation as a skilled artist of landscapes, animals, and florals. She also married author Frederick Van Wyck, and had a long and successful career.
Here's the house she lived in at Old Lyme, in the summer with the roses blooming...
Happy Flower Friday!
From a private collection.
#Art #MatildaBrowne #Impressionism #AmericanArt #WomenArtists #FlowerFriday
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"Untitled (Yellow House with Yellow Roses)," Matilda Browne, after 1918.
Browne (1869-1947) was an American Impressionist artist, and a noted member of the Old Lyme, CT artists' colony...in fact, the only female painter they took seriously.
She showed talent as a child, and luckily was a neighbor of Hudson School painter Thomas Moran, who taught the young Matilda and encouraged her gifts. By age 12 she had a painting accepted as part of an exhibit at the American Academy of Design.
She traveled Europe, where she learned from many significant painters, and returned to the US where she earned a reputation as a skilled artist of landscapes, animals, and florals. She also married author Frederick Van Wyck, and had a long and successful career.
Here's the house she lived in at Old Lyme, in the summer with the roses blooming...
Happy Flower Friday!
From a private collection.
#Art #MatildaBrowne #Impressionism #AmericanArt #WomenArtists #FlowerFriday
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"Untitled (Yellow House with Yellow Roses)," Matilda Browne, after 1918.
Browne (1869-1947) was an American Impressionist artist, and a noted member of the Old Lyme, CT artists' colony...in fact, the only female painter they took seriously.
She showed talent as a child, and luckily was a neighbor of Hudson School painter Thomas Moran, who taught the young Matilda and encouraged her gifts. By age 12 she had a painting accepted as part of an exhibit at the American Academy of Design.
She traveled Europe, where she learned from many significant painters, and returned to the US where she earned a reputation as a skilled artist of landscapes, animals, and florals. She also married author Frederick Van Wyck, and had a long and successful career.
Here's the house she lived in at Old Lyme, in the summer with the roses blooming...
Happy Flower Friday!
From a private collection.
#Art #MatildaBrowne #Impressionism #AmericanArt #WomenArtists #FlowerFriday
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Introduction to the Digital Collections of the Libraries and Archives of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
#DigitalCollections #Libraries #Archives #Museums #AmericanArt #LatinAmericanArt #ArtistBooks #Photography #Manuscripts #DecorativeArts
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"Moonlight Seascape, Gloucester Harbor," Mary Blood Mellen, c. 1870s.
Mellen (1819-86) was the major female member of the Hudson River School, a group of artists of the 19th century who specialized in sweeping Romantic-style landscapes of North America.
Born in Massachusetts, she learned to paint early on, but her marriage to the Universalist Rev. Mellen was a turning point. The couple became acquainted with Fitz Henry Lane, a great painter and teacher, and through him she developed her skill and talent.
New England, especially the coastal areas of Massachusetts and Maine, were her specialty, including a number of marine subjects. Most of her work is undated so we can only guess at when it was painted, but it is known she collaborated with Lane several times.
After her husband's death in 1866 she moved to Hartford, CT, supporting herself with her work, which was evidently popular. Her passing from typhoid generated a number of complimentary obits, praising her work.
From a private collection.
#Art #MaryBloodMellen #HudsonRiverSchool #AmericanArt #WomenArtists #Moonlight
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"Moonlight Seascape, Gloucester Harbor," Mary Blood Mellen, c. 1870s.
Mellen (1819-86) was the major female member of the Hudson River School, a group of artists of the 19th century who specialized in sweeping Romantic-style landscapes of North America.
Born in Massachusetts, she learned to paint early on, but her marriage to the Universalist Rev. Mellen was a turning point. The couple became acquainted with Fitz Henry Lane, a great painter and teacher, and through him she developed her skill and talent.
New England, especially the coastal areas of Massachusetts and Maine, were her specialty, including a number of marine subjects. Most of her work is undated so we can only guess at when it was painted, but it is known she collaborated with Lane several times.
After her husband's death in 1866 she moved to Hartford, CT, supporting herself with her work, which was evidently popular. Her passing from typhoid generated a number of complimentary obits, praising her work.
From a private collection.
#Art #MaryBloodMellen #HudsonRiverSchool #AmericanArt #WomenArtists #Moonlight
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"Moonlight Seascape, Gloucester Harbor," Mary Blood Mellen, c. 1870s.
Mellen (1819-86) was the major female member of the Hudson River School, a group of artists of the 19th century who specialized in sweeping Romantic-style landscapes of North America.
Born in Massachusetts, she learned to paint early on, but her marriage to the Universalist Rev. Mellen was a turning point. The couple became acquainted with Fitz Henry Lane, a great painter and teacher, and through him she developed her skill and talent.
New England, especially the coastal areas of Massachusetts and Maine, were her specialty, including a number of marine subjects. Most of her work is undated so we can only guess at when it was painted, but it is known she collaborated with Lane several times.
After her husband's death in 1866 she moved to Hartford, CT, supporting herself with her work, which was evidently popular. Her passing from typhoid generated a number of complimentary obits, praising her work.
From a private collection.
#Art #MaryBloodMellen #HudsonRiverSchool #AmericanArt #WomenArtists #Moonlight
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"Moonlight Seascape, Gloucester Harbor," Mary Blood Mellen, c. 1870s.
Mellen (1819-86) was the major female member of the Hudson River School, a group of artists of the 19th century who specialized in sweeping Romantic-style landscapes of North America.
Born in Massachusetts, she learned to paint early on, but her marriage to the Universalist Rev. Mellen was a turning point. The couple became acquainted with Fitz Henry Lane, a great painter and teacher, and through him she developed her skill and talent.
New England, especially the coastal areas of Massachusetts and Maine, were her specialty, including a number of marine subjects. Most of her work is undated so we can only guess at when it was painted, but it is known she collaborated with Lane several times.
After her husband's death in 1866 she moved to Hartford, CT, supporting herself with her work, which was evidently popular. Her passing from typhoid generated a number of complimentary obits, praising her work.
From a private collection.
#Art #MaryBloodMellen #HudsonRiverSchool #AmericanArt #WomenArtists #Moonlight
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"Moonlight Seascape, Gloucester Harbor," Mary Blood Mellen, c. 1870s.
Mellen (1819-86) was the major female member of the Hudson River School, a group of artists of the 19th century who specialized in sweeping Romantic-style landscapes of North America.
Born in Massachusetts, she learned to paint early on, but her marriage to the Universalist Rev. Mellen was a turning point. The couple became acquainted with Fitz Henry Lane, a great painter and teacher, and through him she developed her skill and talent.
New England, especially the coastal areas of Massachusetts and Maine, were her specialty, including a number of marine subjects. Most of her work is undated so we can only guess at when it was painted, but it is known she collaborated with Lane several times.
After her husband's death in 1866 she moved to Hartford, CT, supporting herself with her work, which was evidently popular. Her passing from typhoid generated a number of complimentary obits, praising her work.
From a private collection.
#Art #MaryBloodMellen #HudsonRiverSchool #AmericanArt #WomenArtists #Moonlight
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"The Witch And Her Companions" - a very enigmatic picture by American artist Ernest Haskell (pre-World War One). They look like standing stones to me... #StandingStoneSunday #witch #AmericanArt #artsky
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"The Witch And Her Companions" - a very enigmatic picture by American artist Ernest Haskell (pre-World War One). They look like standing stones to me... #StandingStoneSunday #witch #AmericanArt #artsky
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"View of Alpine" -- Moya del Pino -- oil on masonite -- 1940.
A US Post Office mural created for Alpine, TX, by Jose Moya del Pino ( 1891- 1969), a Spanish born artist who worked for most of his life in Bay area California.
#Art #Painting #JoseMoyadelPino #USArt #AmericanArt #NewDealArt #20thCenturyArt #PublicArt #PostOfficeMurals #Alpine #Texas #Masonite
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Jared French -- Cavalrymen Crossing a River -- 1939.
>> French's central mural for the Parcel Post Building in Richmond, Virginia, is now displayed at the Lewis F. Powell Jr. United States Courthouse. "Life" magazine reported that French painted himself into the mural as the figure wearing suspenders.<<
I find it fascinating to see the implicit but powerful eroticism at work in a 1930s New Deal art commission.
Image: By Carol M. Highsmith - Library of Congress Catalog: http://lccn.loc.gov/2010719844 -- Wikimedia Commons
#Art #JaredFrench #NewDeal #USArt #AmericanArt #Painting #1930s
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Jared French -- Cavalrymen Crossing a River -- 1939.
>> French's central mural for the Parcel Post Building in Richmond, Virginia, is now displayed at the Lewis F. Powell Jr. United States Courthouse. "Life" magazine reported that French painted himself into the mural as the figure wearing suspenders.<<
I find it fascinating to see the implicit but powerful eroticism at work in a 1930s New Deal art commission.
Image: By Carol M. Highsmith - Library of Congress Catalog: http://lccn.loc.gov/2010719844 -- Wikimedia Commons
#Art #JaredFrench #NewDeal #USArt #AmericanArt #Painting #1930s
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Jared French -- Cavalrymen Crossing a River -- 1939.
>> French's central mural for the Parcel Post Building in Richmond, Virginia, is now displayed at the Lewis F. Powell Jr. United States Courthouse. "Life" magazine reported that French painted himself into the mural as the figure wearing suspenders.<<
I find it fascinating to see the implicit but powerful eroticism at work in a 1930s New Deal art commission.
Image: By Carol M. Highsmith - Library of Congress Catalog: http://lccn.loc.gov/2010719844 -- Wikimedia Commons
#Art #JaredFrench #NewDeal #USArt #AmericanArt #Painting #1930s
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Jared French -- Cavalrymen Crossing a River -- 1939.
>> French's central mural for the Parcel Post Building in Richmond, Virginia, is now displayed at the Lewis F. Powell Jr. United States Courthouse. "Life" magazine reported that French painted himself into the mural as the figure wearing suspenders.<<
I find it fascinating to see the implicit but powerful eroticism at work in a 1930s New Deal art commission.
Image: By Carol M. Highsmith - Library of Congress Catalog: http://lccn.loc.gov/2010719844 -- Wikimedia Commons
#Art #JaredFrench #NewDeal #USArt #AmericanArt #Painting #1930s
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Jared French -- Cavalrymen Crossing a River -- 1939.
>> French's central mural for the Parcel Post Building in Richmond, Virginia, is now displayed at the Lewis F. Powell Jr. United States Courthouse. "Life" magazine reported that French painted himself into the mural as the figure wearing suspenders.<<
I find it fascinating to see the implicit but powerful eroticism at work in a 1930s New Deal art commission.
Image: By Carol M. Highsmith - Library of Congress Catalog: http://lccn.loc.gov/2010719844 -- Wikimedia Commons
#Art #JaredFrench #NewDeal #USArt #AmericanArt #Painting #1930s
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William H. Johnson
Blossoming Trees
1938
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Edward Hicks, urodzony 4 kwietnia 1780 roku, był jednym z najważniejszych malarzy amerykańskich, związanym z ruchem kwakrów. Jego najsłynniejsze dzieło, cykl "Peaceable Kingdom", to nie tylko afirmacja pokoju i harmonii, ale także przykład amerykańskiego malarstwa naiwnego. Hicks doskonale łączył proste, wiejskie wizje z głębokimi ideami filozoficznymi. Jego prace nadal inspirują i zachęcają do refleksji. (fot. Wikipedia) #EdwardHicks #PeaceableKingdom #AmericanArt
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"Still-Life," Robert Duncanson, 1849.
Duncanson (c. 1821-72) was mostly known as a landscape artist of the Hudson River School (and the later, lesser known Ohio Valley School), and still lifes by him are few and far between.
He was the first Black American artist to achieve international renown, and was prominent in abolitionist circles, both in activism and to sell his work.
Self-taught, he first made a living painting portraits, but as his skill and technique grew, and he attracted patrons, he began to focus more on landscapes. He fled to Canada and the UK when the Civil War broke out, and returned to his beloved Cincinnati, Ohio (then an arts hub, called "the Athens of the West") in 1866. He developed dementia (or schizophrenia), possibly as a result of lead poisoning, and passed away in Detroit at the age of 51.
The Taft Museum in Cincinnati now has an artist-in-residence program for contemporary Black American artists in Duncanson's honor.
From the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
#Art #RobertDuncanson #AmericanArt #StillLife #BlackAmericanArtists #BlackHistory
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https://livingnewdeal.org/sites/newark-museum-aerial-map-mural-newark-nj/
Only two of the ten murals Arshile Gorky painted while working in the WPA Federal Arts Project for the Newark Airport Administration Building survive.
As has happened with a number of other New Deal artworks, the other eight have been lost or destroyed.
#Art #TwentiethCenturyArt #NewDeal #FederalArtsProject #FAP #WPA #WorksProgressAdministration #ArshileGorky #NewarkAirport #USArt #AmericanArt
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https://livingnewdeal.org/sites/newark-museum-aerial-map-mural-newark-nj/
Only two of the ten murals Arshile Gorky painted while working in the WPA Federal Arts Project for the Newark Airport Administration Building survive.
As has happened with a number of other New Deal artworks, the other eight have been lost or destroyed.
#Art #TwentiethCenturyArt #NewDeal #FederalArtsProject #FAP #WPA #WorksProgressAdministration #ArshileGorky #NewarkAirport #USArt #AmericanArt
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https://livingnewdeal.org/sites/newark-museum-aerial-map-mural-newark-nj/
Only two of the ten murals Arshile Gorky painted while working in the WPA Federal Arts Project for the Newark Airport Administration Building survive.
As has happened with a number of other New Deal artworks, the other eight have been lost or destroyed.
#Art #TwentiethCenturyArt #NewDeal #FederalArtsProject #FAP #WPA #WorksProgressAdministration #ArshileGorky #NewarkAirport #USArt #AmericanArt
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https://livingnewdeal.org/sites/newark-museum-aerial-map-mural-newark-nj/
Only two of the ten murals Arshile Gorky painted while working in the WPA Federal Arts Project for the Newark Airport Administration Building survive.
As has happened with a number of other New Deal artworks, the other eight have been lost or destroyed.
#Art #TwentiethCenturyArt #NewDeal #FederalArtsProject #FAP #WPA #WorksProgressAdministration #ArshileGorky #NewarkAirport #USArt #AmericanArt
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https://livingnewdeal.org/sites/newark-museum-aerial-map-mural-newark-nj/
Only two of the ten murals Arshile Gorky painted while working in the WPA Federal Arts Project for the Newark Airport Administration Building survive.
As has happened with a number of other New Deal artworks, the other eight have been lost or destroyed.
#Art #TwentiethCenturyArt #NewDeal #FederalArtsProject #FAP #WPA #WorksProgressAdministration #ArshileGorky #NewarkAirport #USArt #AmericanArt
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13 lutego przypada rocznica urodzin Granta Wooda (1891–1942), amerykańskiego malarza związanego z regionalizmem. Jego „American Gothic” to prawdopodobnie jedno z najbardziej znanych dzieł sztuki w USA. Wood portretował życie na Środkowym Zachodzie z ironią i dbałością o szczegół.
(fot. Wikipedia)
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It’s Been Called the ‘Sistine Chapel of the New Deal.’ Don’t Destroy It.
The rare #murals in the Cohen Federal Building celebrate vital American values of dignity and community. Now they could meet the same fate as the White House’s East Wing. Gift article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/arts/design/wilbur-cohen-building-murals-guston-shahn.html?unlocked_article_code=1.KFA.qFyn.wElOFv3eXH7I&smid=url-share
#NewDealArt #AmericanArt #ArtHistory #CulturalHeritage #CulturalPreservation #Modernism -
"Country Doctor (Night Call)," Horace Pippin, 1935.
I've talked about Pippin (1888-1946) before; he was a self-taught Black American artist who took up art as a sort of therapy after being injured in WWI. He painted scenes of everyday Black American life, and what he lacked in formal training, he made up for with passion, depth, a remarkable eye for design, and a flair for storytelling and depicting people's lives.
Here we have a scene in a wooded area in the midst of a snowstorm....but a man is slowly leading a horse, pulling a wagon, through the storm. It's not just a mere depiction of a winter scene, but a tribute to the resilience and dedication of a rural doctor, trudging through the storm to someone in need.
Pippin's most popular work are his depictions of Black life, many drawn from his childhood. He also did religious paintings and some historical paintings, mostly of his WWI experiences, but also a noted depiction of John Brown going to his execution, based on descriptions from his grandmother, who witnessed it. I find his work delightful.
From the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
#Art #HoracePippin #BlackArtists #Primitive #SelfTaught #OutsiderArt #BlackHistory #AmericanArt
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"Popocatepetl, Spirited Morning - Mexico," Marsden Hartley, 1932.
A born Down Easter, Hartley (1877-1943) started off with Maine landscapes, but then traveled to Europe in the early 20th century and discovered Cubism and Modernism in Paris and Berlin. He was tired of doing the same old thing and launched into a new phase of his career.
He traveled around a lot after WWI, including Europe and Mexico in the 30s, where he painted this landscape, inspired by Aztec and Maya lore and art.
He returned to Maine in the late 30s and focused then on local art, depicting the Maine landscape and its people in his own particular way.
He was also a writer, publishing poems, essays, and stories in various magazines, on such topics as art, Maine, and Nova Scotia, where he had close friends who gave him the stable, happy family he lacked as a child.
From the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.
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"Milk - for summer thirst"
Ohio -- Federal Art Project -- 1940 Works Projects Administration -- Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress) -- POS - WPA - OH .01 .M562, no. 1 (C size) [P&P]
#Art #Poster #USArt #AmericanArt #WPA #FAP #WorksProjectsAdministration #WorksProgressAdministration #FederalArtProject #20thCenturyArt #NewDeal #Milk
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"Milk - for summer thirst"
Ohio -- Federal Art Project -- 1940 Works Projects Administration -- Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress) -- POS - WPA - OH .01 .M562, no. 1 (C size) [P&P]
#Art #Poster #USArt #AmericanArt #WPA #FAP #WorksProjectsAdministration #WorksProgressAdministration #FederalArtProject #20thCenturyArt #NewDeal #Milk
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"Milk - for summer thirst"
Ohio -- Federal Art Project -- 1940 Works Projects Administration -- Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress) -- POS - WPA - OH .01 .M562, no. 1 (C size) [P&P]
#Art #Poster #USArt #AmericanArt #WPA #FAP #WorksProjectsAdministration #WorksProgressAdministration #FederalArtProject #20thCenturyArt #NewDeal #Milk
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"Milk - for summer thirst"
Ohio -- Federal Art Project -- 1940 Works Projects Administration -- Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress) -- POS - WPA - OH .01 .M562, no. 1 (C size) [P&P]
#Art #Poster #USArt #AmericanArt #WPA #FAP #WorksProjectsAdministration #WorksProgressAdministration #FederalArtProject #20thCenturyArt #NewDeal #Milk
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"Milk - for summer thirst"
Ohio -- Federal Art Project -- 1940 Works Projects Administration -- Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress) -- POS - WPA - OH .01 .M562, no. 1 (C size) [P&P]
#Art #Poster #USArt #AmericanArt #WPA #FAP #WorksProjectsAdministration #WorksProgressAdministration #FederalArtProject #20thCenturyArt #NewDeal #Milk
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Enjoyed this Atlas Obscura article about America’s overlooked, forgotten and discarded Post Office murals from the Great Depression. Incredible public art.
“The murals boosted morale by celebrating local industry and historical events”
Every year murals are lost due to the closing or sale of post offices or just from negligence.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/post-office-murals
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Poster for Cleveland Division of Health -- Ohio : WPA Art Program -- 1940 -- Federal Art Project -- 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen, color -- Library of Congress Work Projects Administration Poster Collection -- POS - WPA - OH .01 .S785, no. 1 (C size) [P&P]
#USHistory #WPA #WorksProgressAdministration #FederalArtProject #NewDeal #Poster #Swimming #Art #USArt #AmericanArt #20thCenturyArt #Cleveland
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The Wilbur J. Cohen Building in Washington, D.C.—previously the Social Security Building—is architecturally important and notably includes some of the most important New Deal–era murals.
https://www.archpaper.com/2025/11/gsa-wilbur-j-cohen-federal-building-art-and-architecture-saving/
#NewDealArt #Mural #AmericanArchitecture #AmericanArt #AmericanPainting #CulturalHeritage -
South buttress carving -- Union Terminal, Cincinnati OH -- PunkToad - https://www.flickr.com/photos/punktoad/6331320122/
#AmericanArt #UnionTerminalCincinnati #Cincinnati #Thirties #Relief #Sculpture
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"Madame X," John Singer Sargent, 1884.
Y'all know Sargent by now.
It's funny that this picture, now sometimes called "the American Mona Lisa," almost ended Sargent's career. He pursued Paris socialite Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau, wanting to paint her, and it took almost a year to complete. Originally it featured a shoulder strap sliding off her shoulder, which, when combined with the lack of jewelry and gloves, and the gown's plunging neckline, was seen as too sexual and salacious; some thought it hinted at an affair between artist and subject. Not likely, Sargent was a very active gay man.
The New Orleans-born Gautreau was one of the great beauties of Parisian society, and was pursued by several portraitists. Although it's often said her reputation was ruined by this painting; it really wasn't as most of the backlash was directed at Sargent. She did become more choosy about which functions she would attend, and she had several more portraits done, one almost identical to this but was greeted only with praise.
Now it's regarded as one of the great classic works of American art!
Happy Portrait Monday!
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
#Art #JohnSingerSargent #AmericanArt #MadameX #PortraitMonday #Scandalous #WomenInArt
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The British reception of US abstract expressionism.
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The New Deal Masterpieces Threatened by Trump’s D.C. Downsizing
Your great-grandparents paid Ben Shahn and Philip Guston to create gorgeous public murals. Next year they could be rubble.
https://newrepublic.com/article/201055/ben-shahn-wpa-art-trump
#PublicArt #AmericanArt #ArtHistory #Murals #MuralArt #Frescoes #NewDeal -
There Was a Plan to Save These New Deal Masterpieces. Then Trump Won.
A feasibility study was underway about restoring the ailing federal building that houses important Ben Shahn frescoes, Philip Guston murals, and other FDR-era artwork. But the Trump administration put a stop to it.
https://newrepublic.com/article/201204/ben-shahn-murals-new-deal-cohen-building-trump
#CulturalHeritage #ArtHistory #Murals #MuralArt #Frescoes #WPA #NewDeal #ModernArt #FascismInTheUSA #AmericanArt -
Sally Storch💫
#art #sallystorch #americanart #mastoart -
A Companion to American Art by John Davis, 2015
A Companion to American Art presents 35 newly-commissioned essays by leading scholars that explore the methodology, historiography, and current state of the field of American art history.
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"Tom Po Qui (Water of Antelope Lake/Indian Girl/Ramoncita)," Robert Henri, 1914.
Born in Cincinnati and raised in Nebraska, Robert Henri (1865-1929) is one of the great American artists. Starting off as a fan of the Impressionists (which you can see in the background of today's painting), he rejected the standards of American academic art and instead was a leader of the Ashcan school, a realist movement that specialized mostly in scenes in the everyday lives of the urban poor. As WWI loomed on the horizon, he traveled in California and New Mexico, where he painted some local subjects.
Not much is known of Tom Po Qui, aka Ramoncita Gonzalez, except that she was of the Tiwa people, a linguistic subgroup of the Pueblo. She was an artist, producing painted pottery, and performer, perhaps performing as a "show Indian" for tourists at the 1914 Panama Exposition, where this was painted. But in this portrait she looks out at us in a very self-possessed manner, confronting us as equals. Her outfit has an air of authenticity about it; she doesn't seem dressed up as a stereotype, but is simply reflecting her heritage and letting us see who she is. She is not being exploited; one thinks she won't allow it.
From the Denver Art Museum.
#Art #AmericanArt #RobertHenri #TomPoQui #IndigenousPeoples #Tiwa #PortraitMonday
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"Little Boy Looking at the Sea," Edward Hopper, 1891.
Y'all know Hopper. But this is remarkable as this is very, very early Hopper. Early as in he was nine years old when he drew this, on the back of one of his report cards.
Born in Nyack, NY, a yacht-building town at the time, Hopper grew up on the water, with the Hudson clearly visible from his bedroom window. It's impossible to know if this was meant to depict himself, or someone he knew, or was drawn from the imagination, but here it is.
He showed artistic talent at an early age, and his parents encouraged it, keeping him stocked with supplies. Reportedly he'd wander the riverbanks with a sketchpad, drawing anything that caught his fancy.
What's remarkable is the air of isolation, and the small figure is so pensive and focused. This prefigures the themes of many of his grown-up works.
From a private collection.
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Rockwell Kent - Seal Hunter: North Greenland (1933)
This picture is in the collection of the no longer easy to visit Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg.
I'm posting it for those of us in the northern hemisphere who are not enjoying the heat!
#Art #Painting #RockwellKent #SealHunter #Greenland #AmericanArt