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Kathryn Leighton's paintings of Native Americans earned global recognition. “I am trying to put on canvas the nobility of the old Indian as I see him, the beauty of the color, the dignity of tradition and the fundamental beliefs of our first American people.”

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2020-03-07

Tonight's goodnight image is 'Stooking', a print from a wood engraving by the rather brilliant Clare Leighton, whose 'Four Hedges' has been re-issued by
and contains many of her wood engravings.

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2020-03-07

101119 - A couple years back I was obsessed with Leighton Meester.

Speedpainting.

Photoshop 3-4 Hrs

No pressure sentivity.

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2020-03-01

Desdemona - Frederic Leighton, c.1888.
(Leighton House Museum)

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2020-02-29

In the winter of 1930-31, while on a lecturing tour of the US, Clare Leighton visited a logging camp in the Laurentian Mountains of Quebec owned by the Canadian International Paper Company to observe lumberjacks at work and rest. 'Limbing' is from her 'Lumber Camp Series.'

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2020-02-28

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2020-02-28

'Cutting' Clare Leighton

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2020-02-22

➡️Lady Godiva, Jules Lefebvre, 1890.
Godiva, dame anglo-saxonne du XIe s., demande à son mari d'alléger les taxes. Il lui répond qu'il le fera si elle traverse la ville nue. Selon la légende, les habitants ne la regardèrent pas par respect.
➡️Lady Godiva, E. Blair Leighton, 1892

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2020-02-18

Check out this amazing cameo from DAVID LYNCH HIMSELF in our most recent episode of Leighton Night with guest ! You can listen to the full thing here (it's good):
: https://t.co/QfpBF9OeD5
: https://t.co/vq1OXotP6m
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2020-02-18

Edmund Blair Leighton's medieval paintings (1852-1922).

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2020-02-14

Donce Far Niente (1879), Flower Stall (1880), The Household Gods (1880) & Diogenes (1882). The influence of Alma-Tadema, Leighton & Moore is seen in these works

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2020-01-30

Leighton is now recognised for his majestic & elegant works which are the cultural motif of the then British Empire. Yet beneath his triumphal genius lurked the dangerous secret of his sexuality. It is in that conflict his greatest works are found

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2020-01-28

Leighton was aware of the danger of being seen as gay, his fellow artist & friend Simeon Solomon had had his life destroyed after being arrested for homosexual acts. Thus Leighton’s work is repressed. Self-Portrait (1880), The Dance (detail, c1881-3), Idyll (1881) & Wedded (1882)

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2020-01-28

Leighton’s oil-sketches are amongst his finest works demonstrating an artist capable of capturing mood & light. Music Lesson (1877), Elijah in the Wilderness (1878), Winding the Skein (1878) & Palazzo Rezzonico (c1880)

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2020-01-28

"It is better to have a few weeds and untidy edges to our flower beds, and to enjoy our garden, than to allow ourselves to be dominated by it."

Charity shop find today. 1935 edition of Clare Leighton's exquisitely illustrated garden chronicle. She was a genius.

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2020-01-21

Beautiful sky over Leighton Buzzard this morning

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2020-01-20

yes hello I did a Leighton study

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2020-01-20