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

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

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

David Hockney
(b. 1973)

David Hockney is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.

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

The arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (twenty eleven)
2011
Oil on canvas
32 x 91 x121 cm, Total: 365 x 975 cm
Private collection

 

 

 Utagawa Hiroshige
(1797 - 1858)
 

Utagawa Hiroshige born Andō Tokutarō, was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, considered the last great master of that tradition.

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

Cherry Blossoms at Arashiyama, from the series Famous Places of Kyōto
ca. 1834
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
23.8 x 36.8 cm 
The MET, New York
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/36515

Jean-Honoré Fragonard
(1732 - 1806)

Jean-Honoré Fragonard was a French painter and printmaker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism. One of the most prolific artists active in the last decades of the Ancien Régime, Fragonard produced more than 550 paintings (not counting drawings and etchings), of which only five are dated. Among his most popular works are genre paintings conveying an atmosphere of intimacy and veiled eroticism. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Honoré_Fragonard

The Swing
1767-68
Oil on canvas
81 × 64 cm 
The Wallace Collection, London
https://wallacelive.wallacecollection.org:443/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=65364&viewType=detailView 

Grant Wood
(1891 - 1942)

Grant DeVolson Wood was an American artist and representative of Regionalism, best known for his paintings depicting the rural American Midwest. He is particularly well known for American Gothic (1930), which has become an iconic example of early 20th-century American art.

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

Spring in town
1941
Oil on canvas
66 x62 cm
Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, Indiana
https://hub.catalogit.app/swope-art-museum/entry/spring-in-town?query=grant%20wood