Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) The Garden Court 1870–1875 Graphite and watercolor, heightened with white gouache, on paper, 32.3 x 60.2 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Art historian Andrea Wolk Rager has interpreted this drawing as related to Edward Burne-Jones‘s socialist beliefs,…
Alma-Tadema, Lawrence (1836-1912) Glaucus and Nydia 1867 Oil on wood panel, 55.5 x 81 x 4.5 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Alma-Tadema, one of the most popular Victorian painters, became famous for his depictions of the luxury and decadence of the…
(1803–1873) Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, PC Works: • A Strange Story (English) • Athens: Its Rise and Fall (English) • Devereux (English) • Ernest Maltravers (English) • Eugene Aram (English) • Falkland (English) • Godolphin (English)…
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Three Figures: Pink and Grey 1868–1878 Oil on canvas, 139.1 x 185.4 cm Tate Britain, London This picture derives from one of six oil sketches that Whistler produced in 1868 as part of a plan for…
Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) Intérieur ensoleillé (Sunlit Interior) c.1920 Distemper on paper on canvas, 83.2 x 63.8 cm Tate Britain, London This picture appears in the Bernheim-Jeune records under the title used here. Jacques Salomon wrote (20 October 1969) that it represents…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Farms near Auvers 1890 Oil on canvas, 50.2 x 100.3 cm Tate Britain, London A view at Auvers-sur-Oise, a small town just north of Paris. Van Gogh spent the last few months of his life there, from…
Utrillo, Maurice (1883-1955) La Place du Tertre (Tertre Square) c.1910 Oil on canvas, 50.2 x 73 cm Tate Britain, London A view of the Place du Tertre on the Butte Montmartre in Paris, looking down the Rue Norvins. There is strong…
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) Christ Crowned with Thorns, after Titian 1802 Graphite on paper, 12.8 x 11.4 cm Tate Britain, London Titian’s picture was painted for the church of Sta Maria delle Grazie in Milan, 1540–2. For Turner’s remarks on it,…
Pollock, Jackson (1912-1956) Naked Man with Knife c.1938–1940 Oil on canvas, 134.7 x 99 x 6.5 cm Tate Britain, London Pollock was beginning to find his own individual style when he made this work. The startlingly violent image of three interlocking…
Siqueiros, David Alfaro (1896-1974) Cosmos y desastre (Cosmos and Disaster) c.1936 Lacquer, pyroxilin, sand and wood on copper mesh over plywood, 60.8 x 76.1 cm Tate Britain, London Revolutionary artist and activist, David Alfaro Siqueiros is one of the major Mexican…