Thomas Hart Benton
(1889 - 1975
Thomas Hart Benton was an American painter, muralist, and printmaker. Along with Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry, he was at the forefront of the Regionalist art movement. The fluid, sculpted figures in his paintings showed everyday people in scenes of life in the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hart_Benton_(painter)
Spring Tryout
1943
Lithograph
28 x 39.4 cm
MoMA
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/59595
Alfred Sisley
(1839 - 1899)
Alfred Sisley was a French-Born British Impressionist landscape painter who was born to British parents, but spent most of his life in France. He was the most consistent of the Impressionists in his dedication to painting landscape en plein air (i.e., outdoors). He deviated into figure painting only rarely and, unlike Renoir and Pissarro, he found that Impressionism fulfilled his artistic needs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Sisley
The Small Meadows in Spring, By
1881
Oil on canvas
54.3 x 73 cm
National Gallery, London
https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/alfred-sisley-the-small-meadows-in-spring
Hans Thoma
(1839 - 1924)
Hans Thoma was a German painter. An alumnus and later professor of Karlsruhe Academy, he is known for his landscapes, portraits, and symbolic works rooted in German regional life and tradition. In his senior years, he served as a member of the Baden State Parliament.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Thoma
Katsushika Hokusai
(1760 - 1849)
Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾 北斎) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period, active as a painter and printmaker. His woodblock print series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji includes the iconic print The Great Wave off Kanagawa. Hokusai was instrumental in developing ukiyo-e from a style of portraiture largely focused on courtesans and actors into a much broader style of art that focused on landscapes, plants, and animals. His works had a significant influence on Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet during the wave of Japonisme that spread across Europe in the late 19th century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokusai
Bullfinch and Weeping Cherry
(Uso, shidarezakura), from an untitled series of flowers and birds
c. 1834
Color woodblock print; chuban
25.4 × 19.1 cm
Art Institute of Chicago
https://www.artic.edu/artworks/25093/bullfinch-and-weeping-cherry-uso-shidarezakura-from-an-untitled-series-of-flowers-and-birds
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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
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
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
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
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
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
Édouard Manet
(1832 – 1883)
Édouard Manet was a French modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, as well as a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Édouard_Manet
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Spring
1881
Oil on canvas
74 x 51.5 cm
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Spring is an 1881 oil-on-canvas painting by Édouard Manet, it depicts Parisian actress Jeanne DeMarsy in a floral dress with parasol and bonnet against a background of lush foliage and blue sky, as the embodiment of Spring. The painting also became the first work of art ever to be published in color.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_(Manet)
Evelyn De Morgan
(1855–1919)
Evelyn De Morgan was an English painter associated early in her career with the later phase of the Pre-Raphaelite Movement, and working in a range of styles including Aestheticism and Symbolism. Her paintings are figural, foregrounding the female body through the use of spiritual, mythological, and allegorical themes. They rely on a range of metaphors (such as light and darkness, transformation, and bondage) to express what several scholars have identified as spiritualist and feminist content. Her later works also dealt with the themes of war from a pacifist perspective, engaging with conflicts such as the Second Boer War and World War I.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_De_Morgan
Flora
1894
Oil on canvas
199 x 88 cm
Wightwick Manor, Wolverhampton, West Midlands
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/birmingham-west-midlands/wightwick-manor-and-gardens
Hilma af Klint
(1862 - 1944)
Hilma af Klint (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈhɪ̂lːma ˈɑːv ˈklɪnːt]; 26 October 1862 – 21 October 1944) was a Swedish artist and mystic whose paintings are considered to be among the first major abstract works in Western art history. A considerable body of her work predates the first purely abstract compositions by Kandinsky, Malevich, and Mondrian. She belonged to a group called "The Five", a circle of women inspired by Theosophy who shared a belief in the importance of trying to contact the "High Masters", often through séances. Her paintings, which sometimes resemble diagrams, were a visual representation of complex spiritual ideas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilma_af_Klint
The Ten Largest
(1907-1908)
Oil and tempera on paper
Each painting 238 x 240 cm
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
https://www.modernamuseet.se/stockholm/en/exhibitions/hilma-af-klint-de-tio-storsta-2022/
In September 1907, Hilma af Klint made note of a vision foretelling that ‘ten paradisaically beautiful paintings’ were to be executed that would ‘give the world a glimpse’ of the stages of life. The following month, she began work on The ten largest.
Predominantly abstract, these monumental paintings represent four stages of human development: childhood, youth, adulthood and old age. Botanical references convey her view of humanity’s connection to the natural world. Words invented by the artist, or received from spirits, appear throughout, sometimes as wildly looping text.
Each composition took only four days to paint. Following instruction from spirit guides, af Klint requested that Cornelia Cederberg – a fellow artist and member of the spiritualist group The Five – assist in their creation, though under af Klint’s direction.
Because of their size, the works were most likely created on the studio floor – a radical departure from the easel painting conventions of the day. Af Klint intended the paintings to be hung together in a spiral temple, creating what she described as a ‘beautiful wall covering’.
www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/artboards/hilma/the-ten-largest/
Inshō Dōmoto
(1891–1975)
Inshō Dōmoto (堂本 印象) was a Japanese Nihonga artist. His birth name was Sannosuke Dōmoto. At a young age, he started working for Heizo Tatsumura I. At the age of 28, he was exhibited with his work "Landscape of Fukakusa". His 1961 "Symphony" is considered one of his most famous paintings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inshō_Dōmoto
Princess Konohanasakuya
1929
Pigment on silk, two folding screen
238 x 170 cm
Kyoto Prefectural Domoto-Insho Museum of Fine Arts, Kyoto, Japan
Princess Konohanasakuya is a goddess mentioned in the Kojiki, the oldest existing chronicle in Japan dating from the early 8th century. She is said to have been as beautiful as konohana (a flower).
Lawrence Alma-Tadema
(1836 –1912)
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema OM, RA, RWS was a Dutch painter who later settled in the United Kingdom, becoming the last officially recognised denizen in 1873. Born in Dronryp, the Netherlands, and trained at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, Belgium, he settled in London, England in 1870 and spent the rest of his life there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Alma-Tadema
Spring
1894
oil on canvas
178.4 × 80.3 cm
J. Paul Getty Museum, L.A.
https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/103RC9
Rembrandt
(1606 -1669)
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman. He is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in the history of Western art. It is estimated that Rembrandt's surviving works amount to about three hundred paintings, three hundred etchings, and several hundred drawings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rembrandt
Flora
1634
Oil on panel
125 x 101
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
https://www.hermitagemuseum.org/digital-collection/43371?lng=en
Georgia O'Keeffe
(1887 - 1986)
Georgia Totto O'Keeffe was an American modernist painter and draftswoman whose career spanned seven decades and whose work remained largely independent of major art movements. Called the "Mother of American modernism", O'Keeffe gained international recognition for her paintings of natural forms, particularly flowers, hills and desert-inspired landscapes, which were often drawn from and related to places and environments in which she lived.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_O'Keeffe
Spring
1948
Oil on canvas
122.5 x 214 cm
The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe
https://www.okeeffemuseum.org/exhibitions/spotlight-on-spring/
Damien Hirst
(b. 1965)
Damien Steven Hirst is an English artist and art collector. He was one of the Young British Artists (YBAs) who dominated the art scene in the UK during the 1990s. He is reportedly the United Kingdom's richest living artist, with his wealth estimated at US$384 million in the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List. During the 1990s his career was closely linked with the collector Charles Saatchi, but increasing frictions came to a head in 2003 and the relationship ended.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damien_Hirst
Spring Blossoms Blooming
2019
Oil on panel
Museum of Urban and Contemporary Art (MUCA), Munich
https://www.muca.eu/en/cherry-blossoms/
Hirst's "Spring Blossoms Blooming" from 2019 was on display in the "The Weight of Things" exhibition in the MUCA Halls from 26 October 2023 to 24 November 2024.
The "Cherry Blossoms" series by Damien Hirst comprises a total of 107 large-format canvases. With this series, Hirst reinterprets the traditional and popular theme of flower depiction with cheerful irony.
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Berthe Morisot
(1841 - 1895)
Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot was a French painter, printmaker and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berthe_Morisot
Peasant Girl Among Tulips
1890
Oil on canvas
65 x 73 cm
Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, United States
http://collections.dixon.org/objects/282/peasant-girl-among-tulips?ctx=75edbdc11d560584df65b11b942a60cd9e4ef19c&idx=1
Sandro Botticelli
(c. 1445 - 1510)
Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi better known as Sandro Botticelli or simply Botticelli, was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. Botticelli's posthumous reputation suffered until the late 19th century, when he was rediscovered by the Pre-Raphaelites who stimulated a reappraisal of his work. Since then, his paintings have been seen to represent the linear grace of late Italian Gothic and some Early Renaissance painting, even though they date from the latter half of the Italian Renaissance period.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandro_Botticelli
Isaac Israëls (1865 - 1934 ) Isaac Lazarus Israëls was a Dutch painter associated with the Amsterdam Impressionism movement. https://en.wi...
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