To love a painting is to feel that this presence is… not an object but a voice. ~ Andre Malraux ~ The Spinet by Thomas Wilmer Dewing She is lovely and lush! I think this painting simply beautiful and wish I were her; or that at the very least I could listen to...
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To love a painting is to feel that this presence is… not an object but a voice. ~ Andre Malraux ~ Interior with Etruscan Vase by Henri Matisse French 1869 – 1954 Color! Wonderful, wild, brilliant and bold colors scream out from this Matisse canvas. Interior with Etruscan Vase was painted at the...
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To love a painting is to feel that this presence is… not an object but a voice. ~ Andre Malraux ~ Holiday on the Hudson by George Luks An American artist, George Luks, (1867-1933), was born in Pennsylvania, traveled in Europe, living in Germany, before eventually settling in New York City. He was part...
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To love a painting is to feel that this presence is… not an object but a voice. ~ Andre Malraux ~ Gray and Gold By John Rogers Cox This has long been one of my favorite paintings. Twenty years ago, Kate introduced me to Cox, when she brought home a print of Gray and...
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To love a painting is to feel that this presence is… not an object but a voice. ~ Andre Malraux ~ Homer By Joyce Pensato Though I am not normally an overly enthusiastic fan of Pop art, this large enamel on linen canvas drew me in, and made me smile. In honor of...
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To love a painting is to feel that this presence is… not an object but a voice. ~ Andre Malraux ~ Nuclear Energy by Henry Moore Nuclear Energy by sculptor Henry Moore sits on the exact spot, at the University of Chicago, where members of Manhattan Project, led by Enrico Fermi, on December 2,...
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To love a painting is to feel that this presence is… not an object but a voice. ~ Andre Malraux ~ The Seine at Asnieres by Pierre-Auguste Renoir Pierre-Auguste Renoir, (1841-1919), was a French painter, and contemporary of Monet, with whom he worked, to birth the Impressionist movement, in art. Renoir was not only...
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To love a painting is to feel that this presence is… not an object but a voice. ~ Andre Malraux ~ The Shepherd’s Song by Pierre Puvis De Chavannes I am not usually drawn to such muted tones or the stillness of the subjects, in this painting, but I find this work rather...
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To love a painting is to feel that this presence is… not an object but a voice. ~ Andre Malraux ~ Gates of the Valley by Ansel Adams Photographed in 1938, at Yosemite National Park, in California, by Ansel Easton Adams, the great American photographer and artist. Adams was born in San Francisco in 1902, and...
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To love a painting is to feel that this presence is… not an object but a voice. ~ Andre Malraux ~ Nighthawk by Edward Hopper Edward Hooper (1882-1967) American realist painter, and on of my favorite artist; this is perhaps his best known painting, “Nighthawk” named by his wife Jo, who served as...
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