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John Singer Sargent

On April 5, 2025 - 19th Century, 20th Century, American, january 12

John Singer Sargent, American artist, January, 12, 1856– April 14, 1925

Purdy, John Singer Sargent

John Singer Sargent, Spanish Soldiers, ca. 1903 Translucent watercolor and touches of opaque watercolor with graphite underdrawing, 12 x 18 1/16 in Brooklyn Museum, New York

Spanish Soldiers, ca. 1903 Translucent watercolor and touches of opaque watercolor with graphite underdrawing, 12 x 18 1/16 in // Brooklyn Museum, New York

Riva Degli Schiavoni, Venice, c.1904 Watercolor on paper, 100 x 140 in // Tate Gallery, London

John Singer Sargent, Daphne, 1910 Translucent watercolor, with touches of opaque watercolor and wax resist, over graphite on paper, 20 11/16 x 15 13/16 in Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Daphne, 1910 Translucent watercolor, with touches of opaque watercolor and wax resist, over graphite on paper, 20 11/16 x 15 13/16 in // Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Dugout, 1918 Watercolor and graphite on white wove paper, 15 5/16 x 20 7/8 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

John Singer Sargent, Robert Louis Stevenson and His Wife, 1885 Oil on canvas, 20.5 in x 24.4 in Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas

Robert Louis Stevenson and His Wife, 1885 Oil on canvas, 20.5 in x 24.4 in // Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas

John D. Rockefeller, 1917 Oil canvas, 57.9 in x 45 in // Private collection

Group with Parasols (Siesta), 1904. Oil on canvas; 22 3/8 x 28 9/16 in // Private Collection

White Walls in Sunlight, Morocco, 1879–80 Oil on wood, 10 1/4 x 13 3/4 in. // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

John Singer Sargent, Two Male Figures, Possible Study for "Hell", ca. 1910 Charcoal on white laid paper, 18 15/16 x 24 11/16 in Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Two Male Figures, Possible Study for "Hell", ca. 1910 Charcoal on white laid paper, 18 15/16 x 24 11/16 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Small Boats, 1913 Watercolor and graphite on white wove paper, 10 x 13 15/16 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Édouard Vuillard

On April 4, 2025 - 19th Century, 20th Century, French, november 11

Édouard Vuillard, French painter, November 11, 1868 – June 21, 1940

Self-portrait, Aged 21, 1889 Edit this at Wikidata Oil on canvas, 8.7 in x 6.8 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Seated Nude, 1903 Oil on canvas, 32 x 25.4 in // Private Collection

Breakfast at Villerville, 1910 Oil on board, 23 x 30.5 // Private Collection

People in an Interior: Intimacy, 1896 Distemper on canvas Petit Palais (Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris)

In Bed, 1891 Oil on canvas, 29.13 x 36.22 in // Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Portrait de Madame Frantz Jourdain, 1914 Maruflé on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris

Édouard Vuillard, Jos and Lucie Hessel in the Small Salon, Rue de Rivoli, circa 1900–1905 Oil on cardboard mounted on canvas, 14.4 x 22.3 in Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Jos and Lucie Hessel in the Small Salon, Rue de Rivoli, circa 1900–1905 Oil on cardboard mounted on canvas, 14.4 x 22.3 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Sir William Orpen

On April 4, 2025 - 20th Century, Irish, november 27

Sir William Orpen, Irish painter, November 27, 1878 – September 29, 1931

Self-portrait, 1913 Oil on canvas, 48 3/8 x 35 3/8 in // Saint Louis Art Museum

The Girls' College, Péronne, 1917 Oil on canvas, 30 x 25 // Imperial War Museums, London

The Main Street, Combles, 1917 Oil on canvas, 30 x 25 in // Imperial War Museums, London

The Mirror, 1900 Oil on canvas, 20 x 15.9 in // Tate Britain, London

František Kupka

On April 3, 2025 - 20th Century, Czech

František Kupka, Czech painter, September 23, 1871 – June 24, 1957

Self-Portrait, 1905 Oil on canvas, National Gallery, Prague

The Wave, 1902 Gouache and watercolor on cardboard,

The Way of Silence I, c.1903 Oil on pasteboard, 23 x 27 in // National Gallery, Prague

The Way of Silence II, 1903 Color etching, drypoint, aquatint and roulette, 13 7/16 x 13 11/16 in // Minneapolis Institute of Art

Music, 1936 Oil on canvas, 37 x 33 1/2 in // Georges Pompidou Center, Paris

Max Ernst

On April 2, 2025 - 20th Century, april 2, German

Max Ernst, German artist, April 2, 1891-April 1, 1976

Punching Ball or the Immortality of Buonarroti (Self-Portrait)

Garden Airplane Trap, 1935–36 Oil on canvas, 21 x 26 in // Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice

Une Semaine de Bonté, Third Book, Tuesday; Element: Fire; Example: The Court of the Dragon, 1933 // Collage-Novel

Ubu Imperator, 1923 Oil on Canvas, 39 x 32 in // Georges Pompidou Center, Paris

Raymond Mathewson Hood

On March 29, 2025 - 20th Century, American, march 29

Raymond Mathewson Hood, American architect, March 29, 1881 – August 14, 1934

Raymond Mathewson Hood, Rockefeller Center, 1931-1939 Complex of 19 commercial buildings covering 22 acres Between 48th Street and 51st Street New York City

Rockefeller Center, 1931-1939 Complex of 19 commercial buildings covering 22 acres / Between 48th Street and 51st Street / New York City

The lobby of the RCA Building

The main entrance to the RCA Building.

Wisdom, created by architectural sculptors Lee Lawrie and colorist Leon V. Solon. Applied ornament above the entrance to 30 Rockefeller Plaza.

Wisdom. Applied ornament above the entrance to 30 Rockefeller Plaza.

American Radiator Building, 1924 338 ft-tall (103 m), 23-story skyscraper / 40 West 40th Street / New York City

Daily News Building, 1928 36-story tower that is 476 feet (145 m) skyscraper 220 East 42nd Street New York City

Globe in the lobby of the Daily News Building

McGraw-Hill Building, 1930-31 485-foot-tall (148 m), 33-story skyscraper / 330 West 42nd Street / New York City

The lobby of the McGraw-Hill Building.

The Tribune Tower, 1925 463-foot-tall (141 m), 36-floor neo-Gothic skyscraper / 435 North Michigan Avenue / Chicago, Illinois

Dora Carrington

On March 29, 2025 - 20th Century, English, march 29

Dora de Houghton Carrington, known generally as Carrington, English painter, 29 March 1893 – 11 March 1932

Dora Carrington - Self Portrait, 1913

Dora Carrington, 1917, (photographer: Lady Ottoline Morrell) National Portrait Gallery, London

Farm at Watendlath, 1921 Oil paint on canvas, 24 x 26 in / Tate Gallery, London

Spanish Landscape with Mountains, c.1924 Oil paint on canvas, 22 x 26 / Tate Gallery, London

Female Figure Standing, 1913 University College London Art Museum.

Lytton Strachey Reading, 1916 Oil on panel, 20 x 24 / National Portrait Gallery, London

Dora Carrington, Mrs Box, 1919, Oil on canvas, The Higgins Bedford Museum, UK

Mrs Box, 1919, Oil on canvas, 36 x 30 in The Higgins Bedford Museum, UK

E. M. Forster, 1920 Oil on canvas, 20 x 16 in / National Portrait Gallery, London

Female Figure Lying on Her Back, 1912 Oil on canvas, 20 x 30 in / UCL Art Museum, London

Jane Maria Grant, Lady Strachey, 1920 Oil on canvas, 30 x 24 / National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh

Cuno Amiet

On March 28, 2025 - 20th Century, march 28, Swiss

Cuno Amiet, Swiss artist, 28 March 1868 – 6 July 1961

Cuno Amiet painting his wife Anna in 1952

Greti in a Pink Dress, 1907 Oil on canvas, 39 x 36 in / Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland

Standing Nude, 1916 Oil on Canvas, 41 x 21 in / Private collection

Stockhornkette, 1931 Oil on canvas, 36 x 36 in

Paul Cézanne

On March 27, 2025 - 19th Century, 20th Century, French, january 19

Paul Cézanne, French painter, January 19, 1839 – October 22, 1906

“It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.”

Paul Cézanne in 1899

Ker Xavier Roussel, Paul Cézanne on the Hill of Les Lauves, 1906

Apples, Bottle and Chairback, c. 1904 - 1906 Pencil and watercolor, 17 1/2 x 23 1/4 in // The Courtauld, London

In the Woods, c.1900 Watercolor on paper // Private Collection

The Vase of Tulips, 1885–1895 Oil on canvas, 23 1/2 × 16 5/8 in / Art Institute of Chicago

Flowers and Fruit, c.1880 Oil on canvas, 14 x 8.25 in / Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris

Paul Cézanne, Penitent Magdalene, between circa 1868 and circa 1869 Oil on canvas, 66.1 in x 49.7 in Musée d'Orsay, Paris

I Penitent Magdalene, between circa 1868 and circa 1869 Oil on canvas, 66.1 in x 49.7 in // Musée d'Orsay, Paris

n the Woods, 1894 Watercolor on paper // Private Collection

Four Peaches on a Plate, 1890-1894 Oil on canvas, 10 1/16 × 15 3/16 in Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia

Bottom of the Ravine, c 1879 Oil on canvas, 3/4 × 21 1/4 inches // The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Paul Cézanne, Ginger Pot with Pomegranate and Pears, 1893 Oil on canvas Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.

Ginger Pot with Pomegranate and Pears, 1893 Oil on canvas, 18 1/4 x 21 7/8 in // Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.

Portrait of Madame Cezanne, 1890 Oil on canvas, 18 5/16 x 15 3/16 in // Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Paul Cézanne, Vase of Flowers, 1900 - 1903 Oil on canvas, 77 x 64 cm Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia

Vase of Flowers, 1900 - 1903 Oil on canvas, 30.3 x 25.2 in // Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia

Woman with a Coffeepot, Circa 1895 Oil on canvas, 38 x 51 in // Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Still Life with Apples, a Bottle and a Milk Pot, c.1904 Watercolor on paper // Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX

The Trees of Jas de Bouffan in Spring, c.1880 Watercolor on paper // Private Collection

A Turn in the Road at La Roche-Guyon, 1885 Oil on canvas, 25 3/8 x 31 1/2 // Smith College Museum of Art (SCMA), Northampton, MA

Terracotta Pots and Flowers, 1891–1892 Oil on canvas, 36 3/8 × 28 7/8 in // Barnes Collection, Philadelphia

Portrait of Madame Cézanne, between 1886 and 1887 Oil on canvas, 39.6 in x 32 in // Detroit Institute of Arts

Maurits Cornelis Escher

On March 27, 2025 - 20th Century, Dutch, june 17

Maurits Cornelis Escher, Dutch artist, June 17, 1898-March 27, 1972

Maurits Cornelis Escher, Self-Portrait

Fairy Tale, 1920

Crab Canon, 1963

Doric Columns, 1945 Wood engraving on japan paper, 12 5/8 × 9 1/2 in // National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Coast of Amalfi, 1931 Lithograph

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