Clark Art Instituteさんのイラストまとめ

“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.” –Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

Claude Monet, Seascape, Storm, 1866, oil on canvas. The Clark, 1955.561.

Still at the restaurant . . .

Édouard Vuillard, The Pastry Shop, 1899, lithograph on paper. The Clark, 1962.136.

Hope you've had a vibrant Wednesday!

Georges de Feure, Le Cirque Corvi, c. 1893, gouache, watercolor, and pencil on paper. The Clark, 1955.1648.

"What you see over there aren’t giants—they’re windmills; and what seems to be arms are the sails that rotate the millstone when they’re turned by the wind.” - Don Quixote

Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen, acting director of the Williams Graduate Program in the History of Art at the Clark, sketches Rodin’s path between two of his great monumental works, The Thinker and the Monument to Balzac in a free lecture in the Clark's auditorium on 8/27 at 2pm.

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.-- J. Lubbock

Perfect image to accompany quote: John Singer Sargent, Resting

In the 1870s, celebrated painter Carolus-Duran taught John Singer Sargent and greatly influenced his style. In 1879, Sargent painted this magnificent portrait of his mentor, inscribing it in homage to his teacher from an “affectionate pupil.”

“The wind is rising! . . . We must try to live!” —Paul Valéry

On the Horizon will open November 19! The exhibition explores how 19th-century artists in Europe and North America confronted the atmosphere as both a representational challenge and realm for visual expression.

“All good things are wild and free.” —Henry David Thoreau

Winslow Homer, Summer Squall, 1904, oil on canvas. The Clark, 1955.8.

Hope you’re having a more peaceful Tuesday than this!

Agenore Fabbri, Fight between a Cat and a Dog, 1953, red and black wash on paper. Gift of Mrs. Hereward Lester Cooke, 1988. The Clark, 1988.102.