Saturday, October 16, 2010

Back to the French

Henri Julian Rousseau, Vue de Malakoff
Henri Julian Rousseau, French 1844-1910
            Le Centenaire, oil, 1892
            Cheval attaque par un jaguar, oil, 1910
            Jardin de Luxemburg
            Vue de Malakoff
            La bougie rose (Nature morte), oil
            La famille
            La maison, environs de Paris, oil
            Paysage avec un taureau
            Patache daval quai, drawing
            Quai d’Auteuil, ink

 Honore Daumier, Third Class Carriage
Honore Daumier, French 1808-1879
            Third Class Carriage (Troisieme classe), oil
            Outside Courtroom

 Claude Monet, Le bassin aux nympheas
Claude Monet, French 1840-1926
            La falaise d’Etretat, 1885
            Effet de neige, Giverny, 1879
            The Beach at Trouville (La promenade a Trouville), oil, 1870-1872
            Autumn at Jeufosse (Automne a Jeufosse), oil, 1884
            Le bassin aux nympheas

Thursday, October 14, 2010

More American Artists

 George Bellows, Circus
George Bellows, American 1882-1925
            Circus, oil, 1912
            Polo Crowd, oil
            Portrait, Mrs. Albert Miller, oil
            Docks in Winter, oil
            Evening Glow (Evening Harmony), oil, 1912
            Lightweight Champion of the World, drawing
            Between Rounds, drawing
            Polo at Lakewood (Polo Field), wash, 1916

 Edward Hopper, Sailing
Edward Hopper, American 1882-1967
            Sailing, oil, 1912

 Theodore Robinson, Two in a Boat
Theodore Robinson, American 1852-1896
            Debacle, oil, 1892
            In the Orchard
            Two in a Boat, oil, 1891
            Hillside, Summer
            Bay Shore

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

A Couple of the Sculptors

According to one source, there was an "overwhelming amount of sculpture in the gallery."

Constantin Brancusi, The Kiss
Constantin Brancusi, Rumanian 1876-1957
            The Kiss, limestone, 1908
            Sleeping Muse (Muse endormi), marble, 1909-1911
            Muse (Une muse), 1912,
            Mlle. Pogany, sculpture, 1912

Pablo Picasso, Woman's Head
Pablo Picasso, Spanish 1881-1973
            Nature morte No. 1
            Nature morte No. 2
            Landscape (Le arbres), gouache, 1907-08
            Madame Soler, oil, 1903
            Tete d’homme, 1912
            La femme au pot de moutarde, oil, 1910
            Female Nude, charcoal, 1910
            Woman’s Head (Bust), bronze, 1909

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Don't Forget the Women

Nearly fifty women exhibited in the Armory Show, out of 300 total artists.  Here is a link to an interesting article, "The Part Played by Women":  http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MUSEUM/Armory/gender.html

Mary Cassat, Mere et enfant
Mary Cassatt, American 1845-1926
            Mere et enfant, 1903
            Mere et enfant, watercolor


 Marie Laurencin, La toilette des jeunes filles
 Marie Laurencin, French 1885-1956
            Portrait, watercolor
            Desdemona, drawing
            Jeune fille avec eventail, drawing
            Jeune fille, drawing
            La toilette des jeunes filles
            La poetesse
            Nature morte

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Those Duchamp Brothers

Marcel Duchamp, Jacques Villon, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, 1912

Raymond Duchamp-Villon, French 1876-1918
            Façade architecturade, plaster, 1912
            Torso of a Young Man (Torse), bronze, 1910
            Fille de bois, plaster, 1910
            Danseurs, plaster, 1911
            Baudelaire, bronze, 1911

Marcel Duchamp, Portrait of Chess Players
Marcel Duchamp, American, born France, 1887-1968
The King and Queen Surrounded by Swift Nudes (Le roi et la reine entrour’s de nus vites), oil, 1912
            Portrait of Chess Players (Portrait de joueurs d’echecs), oil, 1911
            Nude Descending a Staircase (Nu descendant un escalier), oil, 1912
            Nude (Nu), (sketch), watercolor, 1910

Jacques Villon, Young Girl
Jacques Villon, French 1875-1963
            Puteaux: Les fumes et les arbres en fleur, oil, 1912
            Little Girl at the Piano (Fillette au piano), oil, 1912
            Study for Young Woman (Etude pour jeune femme), oil, 1912
            Etude pour Puteaux, No. 1, 1912
Sketch for Puteaux: Smoke and Trees in Bloom, No. 2 (Etude pour Puteaux, No. 2), oil, 1912
            Study for Puteaux, No. 3 (Etude pour Puteaux, No. 3), oil, 1912
            Etude pour fillette au piano, 1912
            Young Girl (Jeune femme), oil, 1912

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

And Now, a Few Americans

Over half the exhibitors at the show were American: "As avant-garde as the rest of them..."

                                           John Sloan, Sunday, Women Drying Their Hair
John Sloan, American 1871-1951
            Sunday, Women Drying Their Hair, oil, 1912
            McSorley’s Ale House, oil, 1912
            Girl and Beggar, etching, 1910
            Portrait of Mother, etching, 1906
            Night Windows, etching, 1910
            Anshutz’s Talk on Anatomy, etching, 1912
            The Picture Buyer, etching, 1911

                                 Maurice B. Prendergast, Landscape With Figures
Maurice B. Prendergast, American, born Newfoundland, 1859-1924
            Crepuscule, oil, 1912
            Sea shore
            Landscape With Figures, oil, 1913
            Under the Trees, watercolor
            Marblehead Rocks, watercolor
            Study, watercolor

                                                 John H. Twachtman, Hemlock Pool 
John H. Twachtman, American 1853-1901
            Hemlock Pool, oil, 1902
            The Sea



Saturday, October 2, 2010

More French Artists

Continuing with the French,
                                           Paul Signac, Port of Marseilles
Paul Signac, French 1863-1935
            Port of Marseilles (Marseilles, Calm Sea), oil, 1901
            La Bonne Mere
            The River, watercolor
            Seascape, pencil and watercolor

                                           Georges Seurat, Les Poseuses
Georges Seurat, French 1859-1891
            Honfleur
            Les Poseuses, oil, 1888

                                         Paul Cezanne, Woman With a Rosary  
Paul Cezanne, French 1839-1906
            Woman With a Rosary (Femme au chapelet), oil, 1898
            Portrait de Cezanne, 1892
            Baigneuses, oil, 1878
            La Colline des Pauvres, oil, 1877
            Auvers, 1880
            Portrait of Boyer, 1867
            Jas de Bouffan (Melun), oil, 1879
            Portrait of Madame Cezanne, oil, 1872-77
            Flowers
            Harvesters (Les moissonneurs), oil, 1875-78
            The Road (Landscape), oil


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