Born in 1880—The first American painter to experiment with pure abstraction, Arthur Dove dispensed with representational subjects, creating patterns, rhythms, and color harmonies in order to communicate through form and color alone.

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Born Feininger moved to the US when the Nazis declared his work “degenerate.” "Carnival in Arcueil” is among roughly fifty works the artist entrusted to a friend before leaving the country. They remained unknown until rediscovered in 1985.

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Born in 1830—Camille Pissarro's interest in painting was driven in part by his egalitarian political beliefs. His paintings of peasants working in fields reflected his belief in the essential dignity of the laboring class.

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In this naturalistic still life, Martin Johnson Heade portrays the magnolia's large, lush forms in four different stages of blossom. The shiny leaves, rough bark, and smooth petals lying on blue velvet present a medley of strikingly tactile textures—#NowOnView in American Art.

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THURSDAY—What do Gertrude Abercrombie, Eldzier Cortor, & Dorothea Tanning have in common? Each fantastic painter has work in 's “A Home for Surrealism," an exhibition opening 6/7. https://t.co/SDKiN4p0nm

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In “Festival in Montmartre,” Italian Futurist Gino Severini depicted the centrifugal motion of a carousel and the liberating yet destabilizing effects of color, speed, and sound, each indistinguishable from the other—#NowOnView in the Modern Wing.

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Born de Kooning was a central figure in Abstract Expressionism. Aptly titled, "Excavation" reflects his technically accomplished painting process: an intensive building up and scraping down of paint layers until the desired effect is achieved.

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The Entrepreneur - San Francisco (2006) by in "Places to Call Home: Settlements in the West". Learn more at https://t.co/VRMapRfTrJ.

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Édouard Vuillard explored the decorative potential of painting, using a harmonious palette to convey a scene’s emotional content. In this work, a riot of branches and foliage eclipses a street scene populated by ambling women and children—#NowOnView among seven works by Vuillard.

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Wanda Pimentel emerged within Brazil’s 1960s New Figuration movement, which used Pop-inflected representation as a form of sardonic commentary on and resistance to the country’s dictatorial government and the constraints imposed on women by a patriarchal society.

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Mary Cassatt’s sensitive portrayal of a mother and child reflects the most advanced 19th-century ideas about parenting, encouraging mothers (instead of wet nurses and nannies) to care for their children—including regular bathing to prevent disease.

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Happy birthday to Pierre-Auguste Renoir, born in 1841! For this special occasion we’re breaking out the onions - we’re not crying...you’re crying.

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Joshua Johnson was the nation’s first professional African American painter of prominence. He was born into slavery but freed by his owner (and father) shortly after 1782. Through his ties to abolitionists, Johnson attracted local patrons in the city—like the Banksons.

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In July 1919 race riots heightened tensions in Chicago. The violence convinced Archibald Motley he should use his art to influence perceptions of African Americans in a positive manner. This self-portrait is thus an extraordinary declaration of his goals and ambitions.

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Eldzier Cortor wrote: "[This painting] shows the overcrowded condition of people who are obliged to carry out their daily activities of life in... utmost poverty."

Although it depicts people in impoverished circumstances, Cortor creates a world of beauty and color.

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Claude Monet's “On the Bank of the Seine, Bennecourt” documents an unprecedented artistic breakthrough. Known as the "first Impressionist landscape," its motifs of reflective surfaces and textural brushwork would dominate his later work.

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Wild beasts, monsters, demons, and other fantastical creatures populate these hauntingly detailed prints of the 15th and 16th centuries—#NowOnView in European Prints and Drawings.

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Fighting roosters, a lurking cat, and a pickpocket enliven the overflowing abundance of a Flemish market stall in this nearly life-sized Baroque painting by Frans Snyders—#NowOnView in European Art.

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