Showing posts with label Women. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Women. Show all posts

Friday, December 23, 2016

Waterside with Canadian Paul Peel 1860-1892



Paul Peel (Canadian-born artist, 1860-1892) The Young Botanist 1888-90

Paul Peel was a Canadian academic painter. Having won a medal at the 1890 Paris Salon, he became one of the first Canadian artists to receive international recognition in his lifetime.

Paul Peel (Canadian-born artist, 1860-1892) The Beach at Normandy c.1887



Paul Peel (Canadian-born artist, 1860-1892) The Young Gleaner 1888


Saturday, December 17, 2016

Waterside with Frenchman Claude Monet 1840-1926


Claude Monet (French artist, 1840-1926) Camille Monet on the Beach at Trouville 1870



Claude Monet (French artist, 1840-1926) River Scene at Bennecourt 1868



Claude Monet (French artist, 1840-1926) On the Beach at Trouville



Claude Monet (French artist, 1840-1926) Garden at Sainte-Adresse



Claude Monet (French artist, 1840-1926) The Beach at Trouville 1870



Claude Monet (French artist, 1840-1926) The Regatta At Sainte-Adresse 1867


Thursday, December 15, 2016

Waterside with Frenchman Pierre Auguste Renoir 1841-1919


Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) Children on the Seashore Guernsey 1883



Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) On the Beach, Figures under a Parasol 1898



Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) By the Seashore 1883



Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) Children on the Seashore Guernsey 1883



Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) Figures on the Beach 1890s


Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) Two Little Girls at the Beach



Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) The Beach at Purnic



Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) Young Girls on the Beach 1898



Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) By the Water


Friday, October 16, 2015

Painting Flowers as Symbols - Clara Peeters 1594-1657

Clara Peeters (Flemish painter, 1594-c 1657)

Clara Peeters (1594-c 1657) was not painting portraits as were most women painters born in the 1400-1500s.  Peeters is the best-known female Flemish artist of this era and one of the few women artists working professionally in 17C Europe, despite restrictions on women's access to artistic training and membership in guilds. Peeters was among the earliest specialist painters of still lifes and flowers, working while this genre was still emerging. Fewer than ten paintings of flowers produced in the Netherlands can be dated before 1608, when she painted her first recorded work.
Clara Peeters (Flemish painter, 1594-c 1657)

She was baptized in Antwerp in 1594, & married there in 1639. Her earliest dated paintings, from 1607-1608, are small, detailed images representing food & drink. At the time that Clara Peeters was painting, religious imagery was forbidden in the Dutch Reformed Protestant Church.  Artistic symbols  were developed to make coded references to life, death, & religion, so her paintings conveyed a meaning to her patrons of much more than objects in a still life. Each painting would be a visual puzzle to be decoded by the viewer.  
Clara Peeters (Flemish painter, 1594-c 1657)

Some speculate that the skill with which this teenage artist executed her painting suggests that she may have been trained by a master painter. Although there is no documentary evidence of her education, some scholars theorize that Peeters may have been a student of Osias Beert, a still-life painter from Antwerp.  By 1612, the 18-year-old artist was producing large numbers of painstakingly rendered still lifes displaying symbols in groupings of metal goblets, gold coins, & exotic flowers.
Clara Peeters (Flemish painter, 1594-c 1657)
Clara Peeters (Flemish painter, 1594-c 1657)

Saturday, February 14, 2015

Women by Swedish painter Anders Leonard Zorn 1860–1920


Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Martha Dana 1899


Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Emma Zorn, Lasande 1887


Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Mrs John Crosby Brown c 1900


Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Mrs Walter Bacon


Anders Leonard Zorn Mrs. Walter Rathbone Bacon (Virginia Purdy) 1897


Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Queen Sophia 1909



Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920)



Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) A Musical Family 1905



Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Bedouin girl 1886



Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Bottling Beer 1890



Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Castles in the Air 1885



Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Dalecarlian girl from Rättvik 1880



Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Dalecarlian Girl Knitting. Cabbage Margit, 1901



Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Emma Zorn in the Paris Studio



Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Frances Cleveland 1899



Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Fru Lisen Samson, nee Hirsch, Arranging Flowers at a Window 1881



Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Girl in an Orsa Costume



Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Girl playing mandolin 1884



Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Home Tunes 1920



Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Isabella Stewart Gardner in Venice 1894



Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Kuver Maja



Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Kvinde fra Mora, 1916



Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Lace-making in Venice 1894



Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Lacy Seam 1894



Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Lady with fur cape 1887



Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Madame Clara Rikoff 1889



Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Mademoiselle Antoinette May 1890



Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Margit 1891



Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Martha Liebermann 1896



Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Midnight 1891



 Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Mona 1898



Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Mora Marknad



Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Morakulla



Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Mrs. Lucy Turner Joy 1897



Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Mrs. Potter Palmer 1893



Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Mrs. Veronica Heiss 1891



Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Night Effect. 1895



Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Old Anne, 1887



Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Ols Maria 1918



Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Omnibus 1891



Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Our Daily Bread  The artist's mother 1886



Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Painter Alice Miller 1887



Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Peeling Potatoes 1916



Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Portrait of Edith Palgrave Edward



Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Portrait of Elizabeth Sherman Cameron 1900



Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Portrait of Frieda Schiff (1876–1958), Later Mrs. Felix M. Warburg 1894



Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Portrait of Lisen Lamm 1885



Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Portrait of Mme Ashley 1920



Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Portrait of Mrs. Eben Richards



Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Reveil



Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Roseta Mauri 1891



Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Sommarnöje 1886



Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Sunday morning 1891



Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) The Bride



Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) The cigarette smoker 1892



Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) The Girl from Ă„lvdalen 1911



Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) The Letter 1892



Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) The misses Salomon 1888



Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Woman getting dressed 1893



Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920)


Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Mrs Symons 1888



Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) In Scotland (Mrs. Symons), 1887



Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Gunnlod, 1893



Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) A Kitchen Maid 1919

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) was one of Sweden’s foremost artists who obtained international success as a painter, sculptor & printmaker in etching. In 1887, Zorn had received a request from the management of the Uffizi in Florence, to paint a self-portrait for their collection. It was not until 1888, that he completed this, and left the following reflections:

"I had by then never painted a portrait in the studio, because of the strange lighting and due to all the people disturbing me, but for my portrait, this could fit... It should be done in oils, and so I began trying. Of course, my vanity would portray me as a man capable of much more than painting, and suiting enough I was working on a bust of Emma in clay, so I let that lump of mud get in there as well."

Anders Leonard Zorn (Swedish painter, 1860–1920) Self Portrait 1888