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Image: Henry Herbert La Thangue, A Sussex Cider Press (1898). After taking Labor Day weekend off we return with our art post with one that focuses on manual labor of the season. Henry Herbert La Thangue was born outside of London in 1859. He studied at the Royal Academy and the École des Beaux-Arts in […]
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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: George Mason, The Harvest Moon (1970) With the crispness of autumn finally taking hold and Thanksgiving approaching, we are highlighting a picture that is one last look at the harvest. The moon also put on a show this week, so we found something that pulls it all together for our weekly art post. This […]
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Image: Frank C. Ward, Supper, 1943. As we near the end of the year and soon close out our theme of communal eating for this year’s Saturday art posts, we came across one that matches this week’s commemoration of Veterans Day. The work if from Frank C. Ward, a British artist. Born if Suffolk, the […]
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Image: Dante Gabriel Rosetti, Proserpine (1882). This piece is by an English painter with an Italian name painting a Greek goddess as a stand-in for the married woman the painter pines for. This week we took in a show at the Kennedy Center for the first time since before times. The show, Hadestown, is a […]
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Image: James Tissot, Holyday (c.1876) In our continuing series of Saturday art posts related to dining or food, we continue the theme of feasts or meals. This is a complete pendulum swing from the last featured painting. The sun in out, thoughts turn to picnics and we went scouring for something appropriate. In the holdings […]
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