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Dorothea Tanning

On June 21, 2025 - 20th Century, 21st Century, American, august 25

Dorothea Tanning, American artist, August 25, 1910-January 31, 2012

Midi et Demi (Half past Noon), 1956-1957 Oil on canvas, 51 3/8 x 64 in // Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia

Still in the Studio, 1979 Oil on canvas, 51 3/16 in x 38 3/16 in // Mount Holyoke Museum of Art, South Hadley, Massachusetts

The Civilizing Influence, 1944 Oil on canvas

Theodoor van Loon

On June 21, 2025 - 16th Century, 17th Century, American, Flemish

Mary Cassatt

On June 14, 2025 - 19th Century, 20th Century, American, may 22

Cabinet of Curiosities

On May 29, 2025 - American

This is a collection of images I have collected and treasure that don’t lend themselves to traditional Art History arrangement. Aboriginal peoples arts and crafts, pottery, random objects from everywhere and every age.

Jarinyanu David Downs, Australian Aboriginal, Wangkajunga/ Walmajarri peoples, Fitzroy Crossing, Kimberley, Western Australia, ca. 1925-1995 Whale Fish Vomiting Jonah, 1993 Synthetic polymer paint on canvas Seattle Art Museum

Gunybi Ganambarr, Australian Aboriginal, Ngaymil clan, Yangunbi, born 1973 Mundukul at Baraltja, 2008 Baraltja, 2009 Natural pigments on eucalyptus bark Seattle Art Museum

Hans Leinberger, German sculptor, c.1475/1480 – after 1531 Tödlein/Small Death Schloss Ambras, Innsbruck, Austria

Sea captain figure, ca. 1850 Argillite, stone Haida

Early Christian Artist, Roman Empire Jonah Swallowed by the Wheel, AD 280-290 Marble Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

John Sloan

On May 25, 2025 - 19th Century, 20th Century, American, august 2

Everett Shinn

On May 25, 2025 - 19th Century, 20th Century, American, november 6

Salomon de Bray

On May 18, 2025 - 17th Century, American, Dutch

Salomon de Bray, Dutch painter and architect, 1597 – May 11, 1664

Salomon de Bray and his wife, by their son Jan de Bray, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C

Young Woman in an Imaginary Costume, 1652 Oil on panel, 39.1 in x 32.8 in // Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands

Jusepe de Ribera

On May 5, 2025 - 17th Century, American, january 12, Spanish

Jusepe de Ribera, Spanish Painter, January 12, 1591 – September 2, 1652

An Old Man, ca. 1635 Oil on canvas, 21 1/2 × 19 in // Detroit Institute of Arts

The Denial of Saint Peter, 1616 Oil on canvas, 64.1 in x 91.7 in // Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome

The Deposition, 1625 Oil on canvas, 71.7 x 50 in // Louvre, Paris, France

Apollo Flaying Marsyas, 1637 Oil on canvas, 79.5 x 100.3 in // Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels

George Inness

On May 1, 2025 - 19th Century, American, may 1

George Inness, American landscape painter, May 1, 1825 – August 3, 1894

Home at Montclair, 1892 Oil on canvas, 30.1 inx 45 in // Clark Art Institute, Willaimstown, Massachusetts

George Inness, 1890

The Mill Stream, Montclair, New Jersey, circa 1888 Oil on canvas, 30.5 in x 45 in // Minneapolis Institute of Art

Evening at Medfield, Massachusetts, 1875 Oil on canvas, 38 x 63 1/8 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Cecilia Beaux

On May 1, 2025 - 19th Century, 20th Century, American, may 1

Cecilia Beaux, American artist, May 1, 1855 – September 17, 1942

Cecilia Beaux, circa 1888

New England Woman, 1895 Oil on canvas, 43 x 24 1/4 in // Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

Twilight Confidencess, 1888 Oil on canvas, 23 1/2 x 28 in // Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia

Georges Clemenceau, 1920 Oil on canvas, 47 in x 36.7 in // Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

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