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Image: Muqi, Six Persimmons (13th Century). We bring our weekend art posts about food out of hibernation to flag a piece on display in the United States for a brief period of time at the end of 2023. Six Persimmons along with a companion piece, Chestnuts, will be in San Francisco for a limited time, […]
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Image: Anna Ancher, Plucking the Christmas Geese (1904). For our last post of the year, and our last “Saturday in the Museum” post we choose something apropos of the season and our theme of food. Also in keeping with a sub-theme of the series, we discover an artist. In this case the artist is Anna […]
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Image: Yakov Vassilevich Kirichek, Fisherman (1950s). This year, our weekend posts about the intersection of art and food have focused on where food comes from. The fields and farmers, livestock and those that handle it. Another theme that we have taken up is Ukraine, during this time when it is defending its homeland. The Ukrainian […]
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Image: Katsushika Hokusai, Poem by Emperor Tenchi (Rice Farmers) (c. 1835). For our Saturday art post about where food comes from, we return to Japan. Katsushika Hokusai is probably Japan’s most famous artist. His “Under the Great Wave off Kanagawa” is one of the world’s most iconic images. The piece we highlight today comes from […]
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Image: George Henry Durrie, Winter in the Country (c.1858). As we come to the end of the year, we also approach the end of this year’s theme for our Saturday art posts. This year we have focused on where food comes from as a subject; paintings that look at how we get our meat, dairy, […]
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Image: Francesco da Ponte, Winter (Butcher) (between 1585 and 1590). We sneak in this art post between two long weekends and at a time when the first real bite of winter is felt here in D.C. Sticking with our theme this year (which is almost over!) of where food comes from, we return to meat. […]
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Image: Hydraulic Mill, Song-era China. Once upon a time the imperial power of China was reflected in its advanced technology to produce food. For this week’s art post about the world of food, we found this Song-era painting of a water mill. Some background is provided in this academic article. The JSTOR page provides a […]
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Image: Peter Hurd, Brinton’s Mill (1928) We have been focusing on harvest season for the last few weeks in our Saturday art posts about food and where it comes from. For today’s post we go another step in the process, to a painting of an old mill. The mill in this case was converted into […]
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