Family portraits by American painter Eastman Johnson. Living from 1824 to 1906 he studied art in Düsseldorf, The Hague and Paris. One of the founders of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
People from a while back all gorgeously attired. Symbolism with a Pre-Raphaelite twinge. Danish. Agnes Slott-Møller, artist (1861-1937).
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More mountains to gaze upon. Own enough of these and your drawing room will look positively Alpine. Danish. Jens Ferdinand Willumsen, artist (1863-1958).
Modernist landscapes of the American Southwest by Agnes Lawrence Pelton who lived from 1881 to 1961. Born in Germany she moved to the United States as a child but later studied art in the United States and Europe. Also painted portraits of Southwest Native Americans and still lifes.
Rococo Revival, which emerged during the French Second Empire making for some very interesting porcelain. Topic of my Patreon public (free) post for this Sunday. Enjoy! Link below
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A selection of artwork done by Maurice Pillard for the 1903 work “Etude de la plante : son application aux industries d’art : pochoir, papier peint, etoffes, céramique, marqueterie, tapis, ferronnerie, reliure, dentelles, broderies, vitrail, mosaïque, bijouterie, bronze, orfévrerie.” Published in Paris by the Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts.
Did a great many other books of pochoir prints too that have been the subject of other blog posts here.
Illustrations from the 1930 brochure for the French ocean line”L’Atlantique.” Compagnie de Navigation Sud-Atlantique, publisher. Collection of the Wolfsonian at Florida International University.
Designs like a kaleidoscope for the mind. 20th-century theosophist art by Dutch spiritualist Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn (1881-1962).
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