Amos Nattini
(1892 - 1985)
 

Amos Nattini was an Italian painter, famous for having illustrated the Divine Comedy.

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_Nattini

Purgatorio Canto XIX
1939
Lithography
81.9 x 65.6 cm
Collezione Fondazione Cariparma, Parma, Italy

 

It was to celebrate the 6th anniversary of Dante's death that in 1920 the project for a monumental edition of Dante's work came to life, financed by the lawyer Rino Valdamieri, together with other private investors. Amos Nattini executed the edition: he worked on the illustrations, the typographic aspects, the creation of the characters and the technical aspects. He therefore made 100 watercolors, one for each canticle, which were subsequently lithographed. 1000 copies were printed in hand-made rag paper 140x100 cm with leather cover of white calf. It took 20 years and 7 months to complete the artwork.

Maurits Frederik Hendrik de Haas
(1832 - 1895)

 

Maurits Frederik Hendrik de Haas was a Dutch-American marine painter. Born in Rotterdam, Netherlands, he studied art at the Rotterdam Academy and at The Hague, under Johannes Bosboom and Louis Meyer, and in 1851-1852 in London, following the English watercolourists of the day. In 1857 he received an artist's commission in the Dutch Navy, but in 1859, under the patronage of August Belmont, who had recently been minister of the United States at The Hague, he resigned and moved to New York City.

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

 

Coastal Scene
19th century
Oil on panel
25.4 x 38.1 cm
The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, United States
https://art.thewalters.org/object/37.2743/

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 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

Red Hills, Lake George
1927
Oil on canvas
71.75 x 84.77 cm
The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
https://www.phillipscollection.org/collection/red-hills-lake-george

<i>With its brilliant color, dramatic luminosity, and simplified forms, Red Hills, Lake George typifies the distinctive approach to landscape painting Georgia O’Keeffe, as well as other artists that were part of Alfred Stieglitz’s circle. Within her oeuvre, this is a transitional work, presaging the stark drama of her later New Mexico landscapes, while also paying homage to her earlier experiences out west and at Lake George.</i>

Tarsila do Amaral
(1886 - 1973)
 

Tarsila de Aguiar do Amara was a Brazilian painter, draftswoman, and translator. She is considered one of the leading Latin American modernist artists, and is regarded as the painter who best achieved Brazilian aspirations for nationalistic expression in a modern style. As a member of the Grupo dos Cinco, Tarsila is also considered a major influence in the modern art movement in Brazil, alongside Anita Malfatti, Menotti Del Picchia, Mário de Andrade, and Oswald de Andrade. She was instrumental in the formation of the aesthetic movement, Antropofagia (1928–1929); in fact, Tarsila was the one with her celebrated painting, Abaporu, who inspired Oswald de Andrade's famous Manifesto Antropófago.

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

Abaporu
1928
Oil on canvas
85 x 72.8 cm
Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires (MALBA)
https://coleccion.malba.org.ar/abaporu/

Abaporu (from Tupi language "abapor’u", abá (man) + poro (people) + ’u (to eat), lit. 'the man that eats people') is an oil painting on canvas by Brazilian painter Tarsila do Amaral. It was painted as a birthday gift to writer Oswald de Andrade, who was her husband at the time. 

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

 <b>Vincent Van Gogh</b>
(1853 - 1890)

 

Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade, he created approximately 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life. His oeuvre includes landscapes, still lifes, portraits, and self-portraits, most of which are characterised by bold colours and dramatic brushwork that contributed to the rise of expressionism in modern art. Van Gogh's work was only beginning to gain critical attention before he died from a self-inflicted gunshot at age 37. During his lifetime, only one of Van Gogh's paintings, The Red Vineyard, was sold. 

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

Wheat Field with Reaper and Sun
1889
Oil on canvas
73 × 92 cm
Kröller-Müller Museum

 

Reaper (French: faucheur, lit. 'reaper'), Wheat Field with Reaper, or Wheat Field with Reaper and Sun is the title given to each of a series of three oil-on-canvas paintings by Vincent van Gogh of a man reaping a wheat field under a bright early-morning sun. To the artist, the reaper represented death and "humanity would be the wheat being reaped". However, Van Gogh did not consider the work to be sad but "almost smiling" and taking "place in broad daylight with a sun that floods everything with a light of fine gold".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaper_(Van_Gogh_series)

 

 The Reaper in Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

The Reaper in Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany

Karl Friedrich Schinkel
(1781 - 1841)

Karl Friedrich Schinkel  was a Prussian architect, city planner and painter who also designed furniture and stage sets. Schinkel was one of the most prominent architects of Germany and designed both Neoclassical and neo-Gothic buildings. His most famous buildings are found in and around Berlin. Schinkel's Bauakademie is considered one of the forerunners of modern architecture. 

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

Morning
1813
Oil on canvas
102 x 76 cm
Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
https://recherche.smb.museum/detail/968190

Joaquín Sorolla
(1863 - 1923)

 

Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida was a Spanish painter. Sorolla excelled in the painting of portraits, landscapes, and monumental works of social and historical themes. His most typical works are characterized by a dexterous representation of the people and landscape under the bright sunlight of Spain and sunlit water.

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

Fisherwomen with her son
1908
Oil on canvas
90.5 x 128.5 cm
Sorolla Museum, Madrid, Spain
https://ceres.mcu.es/pages/Main?idt=5706&inventary=00814&table=FMUS&museum=MSM