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Image: Lucas van Valckenborch, Meat and Fish Market (Winter), (1595) This year for our Saturday art posts we are focusing on food sources; artists who capture food before it is the subject of a composed still life or the center of a feast. Today’s paining is from Flemish painter Lucas van Valckenborch, also known as […]
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Image: Alfred Sisley, Snow at Louveciennes (1874) Our Saturday art post takes us to the small towns outside of Paris where the Impressionists took up lodging to save money. Alfred Sisley, a Brit among the French, painted winter scenes from this area for several years. His work was among those who caught the eye of […]
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Image: Andrew Wyeth, In The Orchard (1982). This austere picture is part of a series of works that Andrew Wyeth did with his model/muse Helga Testorf. The most famous of Wyeth’s paintings is a golden field in sun (though not completely bright). This one is an orchard in winter. Though separated by decades, they both […]
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Image: Grandma Moses, Bringing in the Maple Sugar (c.1939). This weekend’s art post about food is from Anna Mary Robertson, better known as Grandma Moses, one of the great folk artist of the United States. We also continue this year’s focus on art that looks at the ways food gets to us. Robertson was spent […]
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Image: Pieter Bruegel (the Elder), Hunters in the Snow (1565) Our Saturday art post continues to look at sources of food as the subject. This week, a Dutch master’s work and a description in poetry by an American master of the craft. The painting is Hunters in the Snow (Jagers in de Sneeuw) by Pieter […]
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Image: Daniel Ridgway Knight, In Winter (1880). Our Saturday art posts this year focus on the origins and paths that food takes to get to the table. This weekend, we found a painting that displays the limited bounty of winter produce. In Winter is by an American artist who moved to France after the Civil […]
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Image: Wayne Thiebaud, The Pie Counter (1963). On Saturday’s we like to post about art, especially art that intersects with the world of food (to match the overall theme of this site). Today our post honors someone who represented this intersection more than any other figure in the contemporary art world. Wayne Thiebaud died this […]
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Image: Claude Monet, Grainstacks, Snow Effect (1891). For the last three years we have been using Saturdays to post about art, with a focus on art related to food. In 2020, we tended toward still lifes. In 2021, we searched out images of feasts and communal dining. In 2022, our theme will be the roots […]
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