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🌌Edward Mitchell Bannister was the first African American artist to receive widespread acclaim. After a youth spent working on ships along the Atlantic seaboard,the Canadian-born artist eventually📘 more: https://t.co/ECGqqVpE9F
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Moonlight Marine, Banni…
Biggest ever Vermeer show will take place at the @rijksmuseum in 2023, and it will include Johannes Vermeer’s Christ in the House of Martha and Mary from the @NatGalleriesSco ❤️🩹🏛
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Loch Duich is a sea loch on the west coast of Scotland. Cheyne has represented it using broad, flat planes of colour and curving lines which show the influence of Art Deco&Japanese prints.
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Loch Duich, Ian Cheyne (1895 - 1955)
1934 © The Estate of the Artist
✨ The confident gaze and relaxed posture of Lady Agnew (born Gertrude Vernon) was unusual in contemporary portraiture.
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Lady Agnew of Lochnaw by John Singer Sargent 1892
Today we start our special partnership with these beautiful lilies created by Mabel Royds, an English artist best known for her woodcuts.
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White Lilies by Mabel Royds 1937 #womenartists
Spilliaert’s work is characterised by dramatic perspectives and a quiet luminescence. He is best known for a sequence of enigmatic self-portraits and for his atmospheric night-time scenes of Ostend.
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Léon Spilliaert
Arbres, blanc et noir 1941
#OTD in 1840, Claude Monet, one of the artists who revolutionized art history, was born. Time to present a painting from one of his most famous series (which is also some of the most beloved works of the 20th century): 📘 more:https://t.co/ECGqqV82L5
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Water Lilies 1907
🤍 In Autumn 1907, Hilma af Klint (born #onthisday in 1862) made note of a vision foretelling that ‘ten paradisaically beautiful paintings’ were to be executed that would ‘give the world a glimpse’ of the stages of life. The following month, she began work on The ten largest.
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