Peter Jonesさんのイラストまとめ

Painting at Bedtime.
Blue Morning Glories.
Georgia O'Keeffe.

Called the 'Mother of American Modernism', O'Keeffe is one of the most famous female artists in the world, certainly one of the best known, her paintings fetch large prices. She painted flowers and landscapes.

Painting at Bedtime.
Tam O'Shanter.
Alexander Goudie.

These two paintings illustrate part of Tam O'Shanter.
'Scarcely had he Meggie rallied', 'When out the hellish legion sallied.' Tam escaped from the witch Cutty Sark with his life, brave Meggie minus her tail.
#BurnsNight

Painting at Bedtime.
Watson and the Shark.
John Singleton Copley.

In 1749 14 year old Brook Watson was attacked by a shark in Havana harbour. He lost a leg but survived and later commissioned this painting (of which there are 3 versions). He was Lord Mayor of London in 1796.

Painting at Bedtime.
The Red Bow.
Charles W. Hawthorne.

Hawthorne was a noted American artist and art teacher who founded the Cape Cod school of Art. He ran summer schools featuring outdoor figure painting. He had many pupils, among them Norman Rockwell.

Painting at Bedtime.
Partridges in a Pear Tree.
Andy Warhol.

This is a rather cheery early work by Warhol, at the time he was a graphic artist. It's colourful and pleasant, and everyone could do with something like that at the moment. I hope you all enjoy it.

Painting at Bedtime.
The Visitation.
Raphael.

It's not clear exactly when Mary met Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptist, though the day celebrating it is in May, but it is clearly an important event, which took place sometime before Mary and Joseph set out for Bethlehem.

Painting at Bedtime.
The Penitent Magdalene.
Elisabetta Sirani.

Sirani was a 17th century artist from Bologna, who was very prolific and managed the family business, as well as running an art school, training both male and many female artists. She died age 27.

Painting at Bedtime.
Toulouse-Lautrec and Whistler.
Giovanni Boldini.

It's always interesting to see portraits of famous artists by another artist who knew them well. Boldini brings out aspects of the characters of the other two artists, both of whom were very fashionable.

Painting at Bedtime.
Dance in the Countryside.
Marie Laurencin.

Laurencin was a French Cubist painter, one of the few female ones. She believed that Picasso and Braque tended to make women look ugly and she wanted to restore a more feminine aesthetic, in which she succeeded.

Painting at Bedtime.
The Somnambulist.
John Everett Millais.

Millais got the idea for a number of his paintings from opera, and this scene may have been inspired by Bellini's La Somnambula in which the heroine walks across a rickety bridge while sleep walking.