Diego Rivera (1886-1957): Portrait of Two Women (wife Angelina Beloff and friend Dolores Bastian), 1914 (Oil on canvas, The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas) - In 1913, his first Cubist works were shown at the Salon, demonstrating a much brighter palette and bolder paintwork than that of…
John Singer Sargent (American, 1856-1925): The Garden Wall, 1910 (Translucent and opaque watercolor, with wax resist, over graphite on paper. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) - Evan Charteris wrote in 1927: To live with Sargent’s water-colours is to live with sunshine captured and held, with the luster…
Károly Ferenczy (Hungarian, 1862–1917): The Woman Painter, 1903 (Oil on canvas, Hungarian National Gallery) - The model of “Woman Painter” was a woman from Nagybánya, who is portrayed in other Ferenczy works… The composition is built on the rhythm of the shadows of the tree trunks and sunny strips.…
Édouard Manet (French, 1832–1883): Claude Monet Painting on His Studio Boat, 1874 (Oil on canvas) - Here Manet has captured Monet and his wife Camille in the boat which the painter used as a floating studio, rowing it up and down the Seine and stopping whenever he spotted a promising subject… Monet…
Leon Kroll (American, 1884-1974): Three Women - In Paris, Kroll enrolled at the Académie Julian under Laurens… Back in New York, Kroll met George Bellows at an artist’s studio party in 1910. Kroll’s popularity as a realist artist grew and his lush brushwork, exciting compositions, and Fauve palette…