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This week we re-photographed El Greco's Holy Family with Saint Anne and the Infant John the Baptist, c. 1595 @ngadc. First below is the old Ektachrome, and second the new digital capture. Quite a difference, especially in the skin tones!
It's #InternationalChessDay! 1920 etching by Jacques Villon, whose entire family was obsessed with chess. @ngadc
Since it's SPOOKYTIME, here are some creepy images I made over the years.
#PersonWomanManCameraTV, Hollywood TV Studio, photograph by Robert Frank, 1956 @ngadc
The work of Barkley Hendricks has become a kind of looming presence over contemporary portraiture, and I am 100% here for it. Sir Charles, Alias Willie Harris, and George Jules Taylor, both 1972, and both from the @ngadc collection.
@Sam_Cornish1 This is Imperative, 1976, which we just recently re-photographed. It's a painting, but with lots of collaged paper elements. So beautiful:
#FrankensteinDay The Monster Gazes into a Pool, wood engraving by Lynd Kendall Ward, 1934 @philamuseum
@gant_richard @TetZoo @Rollerkita @RedAndy54 Joris Hoefnagel's jackalope, ca. 1575, is certainly Old World: