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TO INSPIRE | Makoto Toya (b.1944), currently in his 70s, has been drawing since his teens. He states that he feels something akin to a ‘high’ as draws. This of course doesn't last forever, thus he feels the urge to continue drawing until he reaches that state of eurphoria again.
#cuadrodeldia Bodegón con flores (Adriano de Sousa 1879-1944), colección privada #art De Sousa fue un pintor modernista portugués. Gracias a una especie de beca, pudo estudiar en París en la Escuela de Bellas Artes, con Bonnard y Vuillard #FelizJueves
Born #OnThisDay in 1825: Grand Duchess #AlexandraofRussia (1825-44), daughter of Tsar #NicholasI
Portrait by #VladimirHau (1816-95), 1840
#AlexandraNikolaevna #АлександраНиколаевна #Romanov
George Wesley Bellows (1882 - 1925)
Between Rounds, Small, Second Stone, (M. 144), 1923
In a New York ring. This theme was developed twice in the series of sixteen fight lithographs.
National Gallery of Art
Art by Henri Patrick Raleigh (American, 1880 - 1944), 'At the Opera', 1924:
Born #OnThisDay in 1660: #SarahChurchill (1660-1744), Duchess of Marlborough
Portrait by #CharlesJervas (1675-1739), ca. 1700
#SarahJennings #Churchill #MrsFreeman
Born #OnThisDay in 1673: #LouiseFrançoisedeBourbon (1673-1743), Princess of Condé, legitimised daughter of #LouisXIV & #MadamedeMontespan
Portrait with daughter Henriette Louise by workshop of #PierreGobert (1662-1744), ca. 1710-5
#Bourbon #MademoiselledeNantes
Born #OnThisDay in 1673: #LouiseFrançoisedeBourbon (1673-1743), Princess of Condé, legitimised daughter of #LouisXIV & #MadamedeMontespan
Portrait by Pierre Gobert (1662-1744), ca. 1710
#Bourbon #MademoiselledeNantes
Born #OnThisDay in 1853: Swedish painter #CarlLarsson (1853-1919)
Portrait of Eva Upmark (1852-1944), 1896
#Larsson #SwedishArt
Happy Launch Day USS Portland (CA-33), HMAS Vampire (D68), USS Vincennes (CA-44), MNF Algerie, and IJN Ibuki #AzurLane https://t.co/hBAUItsDGU
Stanislav Yulianovich Zhukovsky (1871-1944), Sunlit Interior, oil on canvas, 1926
Born #OnThisDay in 1857: Princess #BeatriceoftheUnitedKingdom (1857-1944), Princess of #Battenberg, youngest child of #QueenVictoria
Portrait by #CarlRudolphSohn (1845-1908), 1883
#SaxeCoburgGotha
Born #OnThisDay in 1857: Princess #BeatriceoftheUnitedKingdom (1857-1944), Princess of #Battenberg, youngest child of #QueenVictoria
Portrait as a child by #RichardLauchert (1823-69), 1863
#SaxeCoburgGotha #ChildrenInArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1576: Louise Juliana of Orange-Nassau (1576-1644), daughter of #WilliamtheSilent, Prince of Orange & #CharlottedeBourbon
Portrait as a child by #DaniëlvandenQueborn (1552-1602), ca. 1582
#OrangeNassau #ChildrenInArt
Siegerlandmuseum
#cuadrodeldia Melancolía (Edvard Munch 1863-1944), en Museo Munch @munchmuseet de Oslo #art Tanto los paisajes como las escenas de interior del célebre pintor noruego muestran motivos familiares y escenas semi costumbristas que contagian desasosiego y desesperanza #FelizMartes
Beckmann’s work fell from prominence in the late 20th C but in the past two decades has had a resurgence & he is now recognised as one of the great artists of the 20th C. Elephants with Dancing Girl (c1944), Masquerade (1948), Woman with Mask (1948) & Perseus (1949)
He was artist in residence at Otis College in the ‘40s with some of his students being co-opted into sitting for him! Road Block (1949), Which One? (1944), Disabled Veteran (1944) & the Homecoming (1945)
A cattle-truck Journey from Salonika to Germany, 1941 (1944), by Blair Hughes-Stanton art
One man is looking directly at the viewer, while another lies on the floor with a leg in plaster, resting on a small Red Cross parcel.
Old Aker Church, 1882
early work by : The Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944), is regarded as a pioneer in the Expressionist movement in modern painting.
In PAY DAY (’44), Private Snafu squanders his post-war savings on gambling and souvenirs in this masterwork of musical timing from director Friz Freleng. (In learning recently these shorts intended for the Army were only allotted a SIX WEEK production schedule, it's incredible.)