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With its low horizon, simple composition and focus on clouds, the sea and the beach, this work of Trouville in Normandy by Eugène Boudin is reminiscent of the pictures by the 17thC Dutch realist landscape artists he admired at the beginning of his career, especially van Ruysdael.

'Roundhouse at High Bridge,' (1911)
is a powerful example of George Luks' depiction of city life in a period of change to the urban American landscape. The trains here were painted in freezing temperatures; a healthy sort of manliness was expected of artists in the Ashcan School

'Dazzle Ship on the Clyde.' (1919) Early in WW1, Steven Spurrier was called up for military intelligence then transferred to the Royal Navy as a dazzle officer on the Clyde; he was responsible for camouflaging various ships including HMS Argus, the world’s first aircraft carrier.

'Spinning Man.' (1953) Elizabeth Frink represented the solitary male figure throughout her career; she explored the complexity of the human condition, tackling not only the strength, courage, and beauty of mankind, but also its propensity for avoidance, pomposity and conceit.

'Baigneuse assise à Cassis.' (1913)
Henri Charles Manguin was a central figure in the Fauvist movement; particularly noted for capturing the vivid colours of the French riviera and the joie de vivre of its nude bathers. He was called 'the voluptuous painter,' by Apollinaire.

'The Riddle of the Sphinx.' The 1880s were a period of intense creation for Rodin; he used drawing to liberate his creativity and to outline his preliminary thoughts on designs for sculptures; he drew mainly from imagination, to test his anatomical and historical knowledge.

There are only fifteen recorded pictures in which Gauguin portrayed his own children, this is his daughter Aline, at three and a half (c1880) Gauguin was said to be visibly touched by the sight of his children 'disarmed by sleep and lost in their dreams.'

A number of Piet Mondrian's paintings from the 1880s could easily be mistaken for pictures from half a century earlier by Daubigny or Théodore Rousseau. On the other hand, some works, like this one, seem to provide a glimpse of the colour explosion that would come in 1908.

'A Western Town, Evening.' (1922) In 1938 the poet Thomas MacGreevy wrote of Jack Yeats: 'He was first great Irish painter that Ireland has produced, or, indeed, could have produced; the first to fix what is peculiar to the Irish scene and to the Irish people.'

Painted in 1910, Marianne von Werefkin's 'Rythmen,' depicts the countryside at Murnau, where from 1908, Kandinsky, Münter as well as Alexej von Jawlensky developed their novel expressive style of painting, marking the beginning of the history of Der Blaue Reiter.