Friday, April 24, 2026

 George Inness
(1825 - 1894)

George Inness was an American landscape painter. 
Now recognized as one of the most influential American artists of the nineteenth century, Inness was influenced by the Hudson River School at the start of his career. He also studied the Old Masters, and artists of the Barbizon school during later trips to Europe. There he was introduced to the theology of Emanuel Swedenborg, which was significant for him; he expressed that spiritualism in the works of his maturity (1879–1894).


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Inness

Spring Blossoms, Montclair, New Jersey
Ca. 1891
Oil and crayon or charcoal on canvas
73.7 x 114.9 cm 
The MET
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/11234

Thursday, April 23, 2026

Alexey Venetsianov
(1780 - 1847)
 

Alexey Gavrilovich Venetsianov  was a Russian painter, renowned for his paintings devoted to peasant life and ordinary people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexey_Venetsianov

In the Ploughed Field: Spring
1820s
Oil on canvas
51.2 x 65.5 cm
Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
https://my.tretyakov.ru/app/masterpiece/8652?lang=en


Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Laura Knight
(1877 - 1970)

Dame Laura Knight DBE RA RWS (née Johnson) was an English artist who worked in oils, watercolours, etching, engraving and drypoint. Knight was a painter in the figurative, realist tradition, who embraced English Impressionism. In her long career, Knight was among the most successful and popular painters in Britain. Her success in the male-dominated British art establishment paved the way for greater status and recognition for female artists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Knight


Spring
1916-1920
Oil on canvas
176 x 208.6 cm
Tate, London
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/knight-spring-n04838

Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
(1841 - 1919)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (/rɛnˈwɑːr/;[1] French: [pjɛʁ oɡyst ʁənwaʁ]; 25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. It has been said that, as a celebrator of beauty and especially feminine sensuality, "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Auguste_Renoir


Spring Bouquet
1866
Oil on canvas
80 × 104 cm
Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, United States
https://harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/303729

Monday, April 20, 2026

Alma Thomas
(1891 - 1978)
 

Alma Woodsey Thomas was an African-American artist and art teacher who lived and worked in Washington, D.C., and is now recognized as a major American painter of the 20th century. She is the first African-American woman to be included in the White House's permanent art collection. Thomas is best known for the "exuberant", colorful, abstract paintings that she created after she retired from a 35-year career teaching art at Washington's Shaw Junior High School.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alma_Thomas

Spring Fantasy
1964
transparent watercolor with brush and blue and black inks on wove paper 
75.8 × 56.2 cm
National Gallery of Art
https://www.nga.gov/artworks/179992-spring-fantasy

Sunday, April 19, 2026

Pierre Auguste Cot
(1837 - 1883)
 

Pierre Auguste Cot was a French painter of the Academic Classicism school.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Auguste_Cot 

Le Printemps (Springtime)
1873
Oil in canvas
211.6 × 127.8 cm.
The MET
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/438158

Saturday, April 18, 2026

Claude Monet
(1840 –1926)

Oscar-Claude Monet was a French painter and founder of Impressionism who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During his long career, he was the most consistent and prolific practitioner of Impressionism's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions of nature, especially as applied to plein air (outdoor) landscape painting. The term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant), which was exhibited in 1874 at the First Impressionist Exhibition, initiated by Monet and a number of like-minded artists as an alternative to the Salon. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Monet

The Flowered Meadow
1885
Oil on canvas
65 × 80.5 cm
Museum Barberini, Potsdam, Germany
https://sammlung.museum-barberini.de/en/MB-Mon-20_claude-monet-the-flowered-meadow

 George Inness (1825 - 1894) George Inness was an American landscape painter.  Now recognized as one of the most influential American artist...