Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) Whalers c.1845 Oil on canvas, 91.8 x 122.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Turner was seventy years old when Whalers debuted to mixed reviews at the Royal Academy exhibition of 1845. Its subject…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Green Wheat Fields, Auvers 1890 Oil on canvas, 72.39 x 91.44 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) is one of the most popular and universally recognized artists of all time. A remarkably…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Shoes (F 461, JH 1569) 1888 Oil on canvas, 45.7 x 55.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Van Gogh painted several still lifes of shoes or boots during his Paris period. This picture, painted…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Irises (F 680, JH 1978) 1890 Oil on canvas, 73.7 x 92.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In May 1890, just before he checked himself out of the asylum at Saint-Rémy, Van Gogh painted…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Wheat Field with Cypresses (F 717, JH 1756) 1889 Oil on canvas 73.2 x 93.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Cypresses gained ground in Van Gogh’s work by late June 1889 when he resolved…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Vue de Bougival (View of Bougival) 1873 Oil on canvas, 49.53 x 57.15 cm Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee View of Bougival epitomizes the characteristics that would come to define Pierre Auguste Renoir’s special contributions to the Impressionist…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La Grenouillère 1869 Oil on canvas, 74.6 x 99.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York During the summer of 1869, Monet and Renoir set up their easels at La Grenouillère, a boating and bathing resort on…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Intérieur après dîner (Interior, after Dinner) 1868–1869 Oil on canvas, 50.2 x 65.4 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington In a darkened room, two women sit at a round table near a man who stands leaning against…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Régates à Sainte-Adresse (Regatta at Sainte-Adresse) 1867 Oil on canvas, 75.2 x 101.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Monet spent the summer of 1867 at Sainte-Adresse, a well-to-do suburb of Le Havre on the Normandy…