Tag Archives: Painting
Spring~ April 7
Spring Bouquet by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
1866 / Oil on canvas / 41 1/4”x31 5/8” / Fogg Museum (Harvard Art Museums)
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April Showers (Spring Shower, Connecticut Valley)
by Martin Johnson Heade
1868 / Oil on canvas / 19 7/8”x40 1/4” / Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Spring~ April 6
Spring: East Bergholt Common by John Constable
c.1814 / Oil on panel / 7 1/2″x14 1/4″ / Victoria & Albert Museum
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Spring (Apple Blossoms) by Sir John Everett Millais
1859 / Oil on canvas / 44″x69″ / Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpool Museums
Spring~ April 5
Birds and Flowers of Spring and Summer by Kanō Einō
Late 17th Century / Painting on pair of six-fold screens / 60.23”x142” / Suntory Museum of Art
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Spring by Rosalba Carriera
Mid-1720s / Pastel on grey paper pasted on cardboard / 9 1/2”x 7 1/2” / The State Hermitage Museum
Spring~ April 4
Spring by Giuseppe Arcimboldo
1573 / Oil on canvas / 30”x25” / Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando
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Spring by Pieter Brueghel the Younger
c.1620s/1630s / Oil on panel / 16 1/2”x22 1/2”
Many versions incl. one in The National Museum of Art of Romania
Spring~ April 2
Walking on a Path in Spring by Ma Yuan
c.1127-1279 / Album leaf, ink and color on silk / 10.8”x17” / National Palace Museum, Taipei
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Wine Drinking in a Spring Garden Attributed to Iran, possibly Tabriz
c.1430 / Opaque watercolor and gold on undyed silk / 8.5”highx30.20” / Metropolitan Museum of Art
Spring~ April 1
Primavera by Sandro Botticelli
c.1482 / Tempera on panel / 79.9”x123.6” / Uffizi Gallery, Florence
March 31~ Women’s History Month in visual arts
Toba Khedoori (Born 1964), Australian-born American artist known for detailed renderings on wall-size sheets of wax-treated paper https://www.davidzwirner.com/artists/toba-khedoori/biography
Untitled (rooms) / 2001 / Oil and wax with graphite on two sheets of paper / 144”x144”
Kara Walker (Born 1969)
African-American contemporary painter, silhouettist, printmaker, installation artist, and filmmaker
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kara-Walker
The Emancipation Approximation (Scene #18) / 1999-2000 / Screenprint / 44”x33 15/16”
March 30~ Women’s History Month in visual arts
Chakaia Booker (Born 1953)
African-American sculptor best known for her work using tires as a medium
https://nmwa.org/explore/artist-profiles/chakaia-booker
Urban Butterfly / 2001 / Rubber tires / 57”x53”
Kiki Smith (Born 1954)
German-born American artist’s work includes sculpture, printmaking, photography, drawing, and textiles
https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/kiki-smith
Lilith / 1994 / Bronze with glass eyes / 31 1/2”x27”x17 1/2”
March 28~ Women’s History Month in visual arts
Bridget Riley CH CBE (Born 1931)
British painter and designer central to the Op art movement of the 1960s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Riley
Zephyr / 1976 / Acrylic on linen / 88”x42”
Eva Hesse (1936-1970)
German-born American sculptor who brought organic, emotional, and kinetic aspects to minimalism
https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/eva-hesse
Untitled (Rope Piece) / 1969-70 / Latex, rope, string, and wire / Dimensions variable
The Misty Miss Christy 