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Image: Hokusai, Fisherman (19th Century). Ink and color on silk. Last weekend for our art posting we focused on the famous Japanese artist Hokusai (whose name at birth was Tokitarō), who is the subject of an exhibit at the Freer Gallery of Art at the Smithsonian. This week we dip back into that exhibit for […]
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Image: Katsushika Hokusai, Clam Gatherers on the Shore. Ink on color silk. Undated. One of the things we missed most for the last year was art museums. One of the impacts of the pandemic for museums was planned exhibits that did not happen. Now one of those exhibits is is getting a delayed opening at […]
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Image: Edward Hopper, Cape Cod Morning (1950). On Saturdays, we like to highlight a piece of art. With the big museums opening at the end of this week, we are putting the focus on this Edward Hopper from the Smithsonian American Art Museum. A year ago, as we sunk into the reality of the situation, […]
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Image: Thanksgiving by Doris Lee (c. 1935). Oil on Canvas. For this weekend’s highlighting of something from the world of art, we turn to the theme of Thanksgiving. The obvious choice would have been Norman Rockwell’s iconic painting of the meal from the Four Freedoms series. But thanks to the internet, we found another fitting […]
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