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"Dog and Priest"
Alex Colville (Canadian, 1920 - 2013)
Date: 1978
Style: Contemporary Realism
Genre: genre painting

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2021-10-09

What better way to celebrate Munnings’ birthday 1878 than being at the preview of Laura Knight: A Panoramic View . A fabulous show which includes our beautiful lampshade decorated by Laura for Munnings in 1919. Thanks to all in MK for a wonderful day.

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2021-10-09

“That’s the hell of sand castles. They are always doomed. That’s part of their beauty—their impermanence.”
Pamela Moore (1937-1964), Chocolates for Breakfast, 1956, a book by the “American Françoise Sagan” still worth reading.

🖌Kathryn Lesh🇺🇸Sandcastles

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2021-09-22

Geographer, naturalist and explorer Friedrich Heinrich Alexander Freiherr von Humboldt was 1769. Scroll through his amazing books: https://t.co/xUacO4CHCs

These illustrations come from 'Voyage de Humboldt et Bonpland', botanique III, 1807-1829

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2021-09-14

English novelist & poet Emily Jane Brontë was July 30, 1818. Best remembered for her only novel, Wuthering Heights (1847), now considered a classic of English literature. Passed in 1848 (age 30) from

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2021-07-30


"Thank goodness I was never sent to it would have rubbed off some of the originality."

Beatrix Potter (1866–1943) in London

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2021-07-29


"Thank goodness I was never sent to it would have rubbed off some of the originality."

Beatrix Potter (1866–1943) in

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2021-07-29

Alex Katz was in 1927. "Night" is the portrait of the artist's wife, Ada, in 1976.
Oil on canvas, 72 1/8 x 96 in. Funded by National Endowment for the Arts and the Contemporary Arts Fund, 1981.13.

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2021-07-24


"The admonition to look within has always kept me going. It's when people are copy each other that they don't establish their own as

Claire Falkenstein (1908–1997) in

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2021-07-23


"I want to have an effect on my in which humans are so confused and in need of

Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945) in what is now

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2021-07-09


"I want to have an effect on my time, in which humans are so confused and in need of

Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945) in what is now

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2021-07-09


"I want to have an effect on my time, in which humans are so confused and in need of help."

Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945) in what is now

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2021-07-09