Light of the World 1932 Peter Blume (1906-1992) "Disquieting amalgamation of details from history as well as the artist’s life. It resembles Sherman CT where he & his wife settled in 1930, a cathedral inspired by Notre-Dame, a group of plaster cornices seen on display at the MOMA 1932. #art #painter

A Carnival Evening 1886 Happy Birthday Henri Rousseau "Ridiculed by critics, his work influenced generations of avant-garde artists. Wintry forest landscape. Festively dressed in carnival costumes, a couple stands in front of barren trees that shine from within, not from the moon." #art #painters

"Subway" 1934 Lily Furedi (1896–1969) "She takes interest in her fellow riders, portraying them sympathetically. Focusing on a musician sleeping in formal work clothes, holding a violin case. She would've identified with this NY musician; her father Samuel Furedi a professional cellist." #art #NYart

"Auxiliary Fireman Leonard Rosoman, Cheapside" 1940 British painter Leonard Rosoman 1913–2012. "Official war artist served as fireman during the Blitz. Painting includes himself among auxiliary firemen. Dramatic scene: building afire, Cheapside London, WW2." #WarArt #WW2art #artlover #LeonardRosoman

“Ritratto di Delia Accetti” 1923 Italian painter Alberto Salietti 1892-1961 Delia Accetti - an Italian muse & subject of early 20th-century paintings. She is most notably featured in this oil portrait & in a 1929 portrait by the painter Cesare Monti. #art #artlover #AlbertoSalietti #RedDress

“veiled in pink vapour” (my neighbors’ flowers)

The Apparition 1963 Antonio López García (Spanish b.1936) "The scene is a hallmark of García's style which blends intense everyday observation with dreamlike or elements such as the levitating child in this. He is famous for his painstakingly slow creative process, sometimes 7 years." #art #painter

"Notes from an Orange Sea" 2023 Adriano Valeri (b.1987) "Valeri’s compositions & subjects reflect the globalized & rapidly homogenizing nature Earth’s surface, spaces that are difficult/undesirable to access, or which have ceased to be profitable for industrial/ agricultural uses." #art #painter

Manhattan Skyline 1960 Happy Birthday Justin McCarthy 1891-1977 "As his eyesight failed he painted broader looser brushstrokes. Working quickly often not pausing until the painting was complete. Images evoke crowded, energetic night skyline of NY almost as seen through half-closed eyes." #art

"Feneralia" 1995 Happy Birthday Frank Stella (1936-2024) "For almost 60 years Stella has shown us what it means to make abstract art, to be uncompromising, to be intellectually rigorous, to not be afraid to take risks. His work never became dull, uninteresting, or banal." #art #artlover #FrankStella

"A Cornfield by Moonlight with the Evening Star" (c.1830) British artist Samuel Palmer #art #artlover #painters #SamuelPalmer

One of his paintings was not enough! "Tunnel” 2020 Rhode Island artist Jeremy Miranda (b. 1980) #art #artlover #painter

“Prickly Pear with Lamp” Rhode Island artist Jeremy Miranda (b. 1980) #art #painter #artlover

“Paysage Méditerranéen” 1953 Nicolas de Staël 1914-1955 known for highly abstract landscape painting, thick impasto technique. “New Wave filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard said he was his favorite artist. Suffering exhaustion, insomnia, depression, he leapt from his 11th story studio to death-41.” #painters

The Monk 1873 Happy Birthday to painter George Inness! (1824 - 1895) Mr. Inness was born in Newburgh, New York, had a home and studio in Tarpon Springs, Florida, traveled France and Italy, lived in New Jersey, and died at Bridge of Allan, Scotland. #art #painter #artlover #GeorgeInness

Søren Martinsen (b 1966) "Martinsen often transforms images including those from Google Earth into poetic interpretations of nature & technological society. Graduated from Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts 1995 & artistic director of the exhibition venue Overgaden–Institute 2003-06." #art #painter

"Quai Du Rhone, Avignon" Happy Birthday to American artist Ogden Minton Pleissner (1905–1983)! Mr. Pleissner was born in Brooklyn and died in London. "Pleissner invites us to transcend our focus on action to see the whole scene – quietly, and from a little distance.” #art #painters #artlover

"A Girl Reading" 1845–1850 French painter Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796-1875) I read that the identity of the model is unknown. "Corot known for dressing his models in Italianate costumes such as the red bodice seen here. He brought them from his travels to Italy." #art #painter #artlover

"Washing Machine " 1992 oil on canvas Robert Julius Brawley (American 1937-2006) #art #painters #artlover

"Ingleside" 1963 Happy Birthday to painter Richard Diebenkorn (1922 - 1993)!

"I Cheer a Dead Man's Sweetheart" by Carel Weight "Features ghostly figure of a solitary man on the right side. Scene suggests tension & unhappiness, implied by discarded items: necklace & dying flowers. His work focused on emotions such as love/fear/ loneliness, in ordinary settings." #art #painter

Happy Birthday to French symbolist painter and printmaker Odilon Redon (April 20, 1840 – July 6, 1916). #art #painting #OdilonRedon #artlover

Self-Portrait/Studio 1976 Gregory Gillespie 1936-2000 "Trapped in my Catholic background. I grew up in a repressed environment in NJ. Lots of anguish/pain. Delicate organisms born in the world & the violence that’s done to us. Violence apparently overwhelmed him.Suicide 4/26/00." #painter #art

"Don't Go" Andrew Beck "Living/working in Canada, born/raised in England graduating from Coventry U. Self-taught, a passion for architecture has a series of surreal paintings that combine mid-cent modern architecture with figures that seem transplanted from a different time & place." #art #painters

Good morning from Alma and Cottontail! #cat #cats #catsky #catsofbluesky #catpics #catlover #catlove #BlueSkyCats #petsofbluesky #photography #petpics

"Love is a Boat" James Dodds (b. 1957) Dodds' work is characterized by precise attention to the shipwright's craft, focusing on the anatomy, lines, and details of the vessels. #art #painting #boatArt #JamesDodds

"Self-portrait" 1949 Edwin Dickinson 1891-1978 "Born & raised in Seneca Falls NY. The death of his mother from TB, 1903, brother Burgess' suicide (jumped from Edwin's 6th floor apartment), his father's remarriage to a younger woman cited as influences on the themes of his later work." #art #artlover

"Young Man in a Slum" 1960 Hughie Lee-Smith 1915-99 "Oil on linen. Years after winning a top prize for painting from the Detroit Institute of Arts 1953, Mr. Lee-Smith said, 'I was no longer called black artist, Negro artist, colored boy. There was no racial designation.'" #art #painter #Lee-Smith

"The Owner" 1964 Jeffrey Smart “My paintings have their origins in a passing glance. Drive around for months; despair/nothing; suddenly I will see something that seizes me: shape, combination/shapes, play of light or shadows & I send a prayer. I know I’ve the gem of a picture." #art #painting #Smart

"I have not been one for grabbing life by the throat, for standing up and demanding my say. But I did at least lean forward in my chair, from time to time, to remind fate that I was still there in the hope perhaps she would look around, point at me, and say, 'Crisp! Your turn!'" Quentin Crisp

"Red House" 1995 Scottish artist Peter Doig (b. 1959) #art #artlover

"Landscape" (between 1920 - 1930) French painter Maurice de Vlaminck (1876 - 1958) "After visiting a Van Gogh exhibit, he declared that he 'loved Van Gogh that day more than my own father'." #art #artlover #MauricedeVlaminck

"Near Manayunk Station" (1953) artist and teacher Francis Speight (1896–1989) born in North Carolina #art #artlover #FrancisSpeight #1950sArt

Needed something a little upbeat, today! "Listen, today we are gods! Our blue shadows are enormous! We move in a gigantic, joyful world!” #Nabokov #gods #listen

Pianist & Checkers Players Henri Matisse 1869 - 1954 “Set in his Nice apartment shows the artist's favorite model, Henriette Darricarère, & her 2 brothers. The painting can be seen as a surrogate family portrait, Henriette standing in for Matisse's daughter & the two boys, his sons.” #art #Matisse

Self-Portrait 1937–38 Happy Birthday Leonora Carrington Mexican, b. England 1917-2011 "Sporting white jodhpurs & wild mane of hair, Carrington perches on the edge of a chair in this curious, dreamlike scene, her hand outstretched toward a prancing hyena her back to the tailless hobbyhorse. #artlover

Sometimes pastel hues hit the spot. Days like today. "Light of the South" French artist Achille Laugé (1861-1944) #art #artlover #AchilleLauge #windowart #pastelLove

"Infantry" 1946 Alex Colville (1920 - 2013) Mr. Colville said he modeled the lead soldier's hands after his own, and the face after his father's.

"Flood" 1938 lithographer Frank Cassara (1913 - 1971) #art #artlover #lithograph #flood #FrankCassara

"WTH? AC running in March?" Roman *hates* AC!

If Not, Not 1975 R.B. Kitaj "T.S. Eliot’s poem The Waste Land famously realized in his masterpiece, a visual allegory of poem & Holocaust. Auschwitz gatehouse looming over desolate 'waste' landscape. Portrait of Eliot-lower-left corner, hearing aid & gray suit supported by a woman." #art #RBKitaj

"Italian Store in the Ward" 1922. Canadian artist Lawren S. Harris (Canadian 1885–1970)

Key & Window -Happy Birthday Robert Vickery 1926-2011! "Robert Vickery, MA based artist & author specialized in the ancient medium of egg tempera. His paintings are surreal dreamlike visions of sunset bicycle shadows, nuns in front of mural-painted brick walls & children playing." #art #artlover

Fur Collar/Baskerville Portrait 1925 Ivan Le Lorraine Albright 1897-1983 "Themes of works: death, life, spiritual vs physical & effects of time. Titles were complex. He wouldn't name a painting until complete at which time he would come up with several possibilities before deciding. #art #artlover

A bit of yellow for me! Love yellow. "Black Windows 2" 2017 Danish artist Kenneth Blom (b. 1967)

The Roc’s Egg 1868 Happy Birthday Elihu Vedder 1836–1923 "Painting shows scene from legend of Sinbad the sailor. On his 2nd voyage he is abandoned on island with roc eggs. Rocs: legendary huge birds. Sailors cook eggs on fire. He uses a roc to obtain diamonds before going to Baghdad." #art #Sinbad

Flower Garden & Bungalow, Bermuda (1899) Happy Birthday to Winslow Homer (1836 - 1910)! #WinslowHomer #art #artlover #watercolor #Bermuda

"The Tancarville Bridge" (Normandy France) 2024 Swiss/French artist Jurg Kreienbuhl (1932 - 2007) "Kreienbuhl's work is uncompromising realism. Willing to show the reality in the raw, he made himself the witness or the chronicler of the end times." #art #painting #artlover #cowart

Eleven years ago, Roman was a babycat and still mostly white except for his face. But he was in Winter Survival mode for sure. #cat #cats #catsky #catsofbluesky #catpics #catlover #catlove #BlueSkyCats #petsofbluesky #photography #petpics

Happy Birthday Nina Hamnett 1917 by Roger Fry Her dress designed by Vanessa Bell. "Hamnett died 1956 -complications after falling from a window, impaled on a fence 40 feet below. Debate has always been: Suicide attempt? A drunken accident? Last words 'Why don't they let me die?'" #art #impaled