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Are you well provisioned for the rain? Take inspiration from #WinnieThePooh, who escaped the deluge with his favorite treat: "…he took his largest pot of honey and escaped with it to a broad branch of his tree, well above the water…" Image courtesy @V_and_A
It's #SharkWeek! To celebrate, come and see John Singleton Copley's "Watson and the Shark" (1778) (or see one of Copley's other versions of the painting at @DIADetroit and @ngadc!) 🦈🌊
It’s #FridayThe13th! But don’t worry, only good luck comes from crossing Inagaki Tomoo’s “Group Portrait of Cats” (1975), on view in “Japanese Prints: The Psychedelic Seventies.”
#JohnSingerSargent's "A Capriote" (1878) bears traces of his underdrawing and evidence of several changes in the model’s pose and in the arrangement of her skirt. These revisions suggest something of #Sargent’s process as he developed the composition. #HeartArt
Happy #Caturday! We're celebrating with Inagaki Tomoo's 1975 "Group Portrait of Cats" 🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱 See it in "Japanese Prints: The Psychedelic Seventies," now on view! https://t.co/ajCNudJVl6
17th-century Dutch painter Melchior d' Hondecoeter specialized in painting birds! So for #NationalBirdDay, enjoy these ducks, hens, roosters and peacocks by “the Raphael of bird painters.”
This fashionable portrait by #GeorgeRomney, born #onthisday in 1734, achieved a world-record price for any work of art when auctioned in London in 1913.
Our #Gauguin painting makes an appearance in @AuthorDanBrown’s new novel. What's your favorite cameo—either in a book or film—by an artwork?
Finally enough room for the full title of this painting by @takashipom! "Dragon in Clouds—Red Mutation: The version I painted myself in annoyance after Professor Tsuji told me, 'Why don’t you paint something yourself for once?'" (2010) 🐉 #280characters #Murakami
#BostonExpressionist artist #KarlZerbe was born #onthisday in 1903. See his paintings, including "Job" (1949) in "Making Modern.