Frederick Childe Hassam (American, 1859-1935): In the Garden at Villiers-le-Bel, 1889 (Oil on canvas) - It is scenes of women and flower gardens that are a genre for which Hassam is particularly recognized and which comprise the subject of some of his most memorable images. In the garden at…
Childe Hassam (American, 1859-1935): Improvisation, 1899 (Oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum) - Inspired perhaps by the warm spring day, a breeze through the window, the portrait on the wall before her, and cut poppies and dahlias, the woman improvises a composition on her piano in her…
Géza Vörös (Hungarian, 1897-1957): Woman with a Book, 1943 (Oil on canvas) - The École de Paris is not an art movement or a learning institution, but instead is more indicative of the importance of Paris as a center of Western art in the early decades of the 20th century…
A pupil of Ede Balló,…
Géza Vörös (Hungarian, 1897-1957): Reading Woman, (Ecole de Paris. Oil on canvas)
“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.” - Robertson Davies
Jan Davidsz. de Heem (1606-1683/84): Still Life with Books (1628)
This painting dates from De Heem’s early career. The monochromatic composition (a style in vogue from 1625 onwards) contrasts powerfully with the sumptuous, colourful still lifes that the painter produced later in Antwerp… Professors…
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1618-1682): Beggar Boys Eating Grapes and Melon, c. 1650 - Bartolomé Esteban Murillo was a Spanish Baroque painter… Although he is best known for his religious works, Murillo also produced a considerable number of paintings of contemporary women and children… These lively,…
Camille Pissarro (1830-1903): Boulevard Montmartre, Afternoon Sun (1897)
Pissarro experimented with many styles: Realism in its underlying composition and depiction of cloud formations; Impressionism in its snapshot quality; and Neo-Impressionism in its use of complementary colors to heighten…