National Gallery of Artさんのイラストまとめ

Explore more of Homer’s Civil War sketches: https://t.co/aZy71fvzVG

[Caravan with Covered Wagons Resting," 1861, graphite with watercolor on wove paper]

The bather’s pose may be derived from a lost composition by Leonardo, called the “Monna Vanna” (or the “la Joconde nue,” or nude Mona Lisa), known only through copies by Leonardo’s followers.

[School of Leonardo da Vinci, “La Joconde nue,” 1514-1516 @chantillydomain]

We’re going to use Thomas Eakins's “Study for ‘Negro Boy Dancing’: The Banjo Player,” probably made in 1877. It is a study for his watercolor painting “The Dancing Lesson” (1878) which is in the collection of the @MetMuseum.

“Into Bondage” (1936) represents enslaved Africans bound for the Americas. Created in his “Afro-deco” style, the concentric circles refer to African and African American music. Douglas’s painting is part of a series on the history of African Americans from slavery to the present.

Commissioned by Robert Gilmor Jr., a Baltimore art collector, this painting shows sunrise from Vly Mountain, a peak near the eastern headwaters of the Delaware River.

[Thomas Sully after after Sir Thomas Lawrence, “Robert Gilmor, Jr.,” 1823, @theGibbesmuseum]

These domestic scenes of women engaged in leisure activities or housework suggest a nostalgic attitude toward women’s roles in the home, as more and more women joined the workforce in the 20th century.

DeCamp layered thick impasto next to fine brushstrokes, painting textures: the ruffled curtains, the seamstress’s blouse, and the table objects and reflections, all painted in luminous shades of white and grey.

Archibald Motley Jr. painted this portrait a few years after he graduated from the @saic_news.

An emerging artist with little money to purchase art supplies, he used a canvas laundry bag from the Wolverine, a train on which he had worked as a Pullman Porter with his father.

Although painted in vivid realism, these bouquets are completely imaginary. All these flowers or fruits bloom in different seasons. Collecting these elements together in his painting, the artist created symbols of wealth and prosperity for his patrons.

Other artists would later emulate this idea with river paintings that could also be seen as allegories for the passage of life, like Thomas Cole’s “The Voyage of Life” series.