Thursday, May 19, 2022

American Artists Paint Reading Women

Frank W. Benson (1862-1951) The Reader
John White Alexander (1856-1915) Jesse Steele Reading
George Cochran Lambdin (1830 – 1896) Girl Reading
Karl Albert Buehr (1866 – 1952) News from Home
Walter MacEwen (1860 – 1943) Girl Standing with Book
William Worcester Churchill (1858 – 1926) The Chinese Vase
William Chadwick (1879 – 1962) The Front Parlor at the Florence Griswold House
Lillian Mathilde Genth (1876 – 1953) Portrait
Arvid Nyholm (1866 – 1927) Reading by the Greenhouse
Karl Albert Buehr (1866 – 1952) Repose
William Worcester Churchill (1858 – 1926) Leisure
Daniel Huntington (1816 – 1906) Study in a Wood
Lillian Mathilde Genth (1876 – 1953) A Pleasant Afternoon
Susan Ricker Knox (1874 – 1959) Reading in the Garden
William Morris Hunt (1824 – 1879) Girl Reading
Edmund Charles Tarbell (1862 – 1938) Reading by a Window 1903.

Sunday, May 15, 2022

The 19th-Century Flowers of Spring Have Faded

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American Artist William Baptiste Baird (1847-1899) Spring Flowers 1864
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Friday, May 13, 2022

Late 19th-Century American Artists Paint Women Sewing

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Frank W. Benson (1862-1951) The Sunny Window

Seymour Joseph Guy (1824-1910) A Woman's Work is Never Done 1882

Frederick Frieseke (1874-1939) On the Balcony
Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) Sewing

Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) Lydia at the Tapestry Loom

August Macke (1887-1914)

Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) Sewing
Frederick Frieseke (1874-1939) Women Sewing In A Garden

James Carroll Beckwith (1852-1917) The Embroiderer

Richard Emil Miller (1875-1943) Young Woman Sewing

Mary Cassatt (1844-1926). The Young Bride 1875

Wednesday, May 11, 2022

Green! John White Alexander (1856-1915)


John White Alexander (1856-1915), Study in Black and Green 1906
John White Alexander (1856-1915) Young Girl in Green Dress
John White Alexander (1856-1915) Young Woman Arranging Her Hair 1890
John White Alexander (1856-1915) The Green Dress 1890
John White Alexander (1856-1915) The Green Bow 1898
John White Alexander (1856-1915) June
John White Alexander (1856-1915) Juliette 1897
John White Alexander (1856-1915) Green Girl 1896
John White Alexander (1856-1915) A Rose
John White Alexander (1856-1915) The Green Gown 1904
John White Alexander (1856-1915) Portrait of a Lady 1900

Monday, May 9, 2022

The Lyrical Compositions of John White Alexander (1856-1915)

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John White Alexander (1856-1915), A Ray of Sunlight (also known as The Cellist) 1898

John White Alexander (1856-1915), Althea 1895

John White Alexander (1856-1915) Fancy Dress 1894

John White Alexander (1856-1915) Mrs Herman Duryea 1900

John White Alexander (1856-1915) Black and Red 1896
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Saturday, May 7, 2022

The Late Summer Whites of American Artist Frank W. Benson (1862-1951)

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Frank W. Benson (1862-1951) Portrait in White 1889

Alright, I admit it, I am back to posting those 19th-century white dresses again. Here are my best excuses. It did not feel like Fall here today, the temperature rose to 93. And these portraits are not painted outside on glowing green grass. Those are my excuses, and I am sticking to them.

Frank W. Benson (1862-1951) Twilight in the Desert 1891

Frank W. Benson (1862-1951) Alice Bacon (Mrs W Stugis H. Lothrop 1891
Frank W. Benson (1862-1951) Firelight 1893

Frank W. Benson (1862-1951) Emily Vanderbilt Binney 1894
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Thursday, May 5, 2022

Reading Aloud

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William Vierplank Birney (1858-1909) Reading Aloud 1885.

Tuesday, May 3, 2022

The 19th-Century Bonnet

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Thomas P. Anshutz (1851-1912) Lady with Bonnet
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Sunday, May 1, 2022

At the Shore When the Weather is still too Cool

Albert Fitch Bellows (1830-1883) Seaside Reflections.