By Arthur Durston, “Industry,” 1934, oil on canvas, 50 x 40 in. (127.0 x 101.6 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the U.S. Department of Labor. #arthistory #painting #oilpainting #art #labor

By Diego Rivera (1886-1957), detail, Detroit Industry Murals, ca. 1932-1933, fresco, Detroit Institute of Arts. #arthistory #mural #art #labor

By Wenonah Bell (1890-1981), “Peach Packing, Spartanburg County,” 1938, oil on canvas, 38 1/8 x 48 1/8 inches, The Johnson Collection, Spartanburg, South Carolina. #arthistory #womanartist #womenartists #painting #oilpainting

A quick just-for-fun sketch for today, “Popsicle,” 20 minutes total time. Drawn freehand on my iPad Pro using the SketchClub app. Held it in my hand til it started to melt. Technically not a Popsicle™️, as that is a trademark. So this is an off brand. #digitalart #ipadart #artapp #drawingapp

My latest sketch, “At the Museum,” drawn on my iPad Pro using the SketchClub app. The painting is my depiction of The Holy Family by El Greco. El Greco’s original is currently on display at The Blanton Museum of Art on the University of Texas campus. #digitalart #ipadart #drawingapp

By African-American artist Ellis Wilson, Field Workers, ca. 1948-1951, oil on fiberboard: masonite, 29 3⁄4 x 34 7⁄8 in. (75.5 x 88.6 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum. More in ALT. #blackart #blackartist #painting #oilpainting #labor

Quote: “Titled The Secret Handshake, the statue of Trump and Epstein is designed to look like a monument and features the two men smiling as they hold hands and twirl.” #Art #trump #epstein www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

Robert Gwathmey (1903–1988), Hoeing, 1943, oil on canvas, 40 × 60 ¼ in (101.60 × 153.03 cm), Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg. More info in ALT. #arthistory #labor #painting #oilpainting

A young spinner at a yarn mill in Yazoo City, Mississippi, 1911, one of a series of photographs by Lewis Hine (1874-1940) documenting child labor for the National Child Labor Committee. Notice the children are barefoot, the adult is not. #photography #vintagephotography #labor #childlabor

By Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848-1884), October (Saison d'octobre), 1878, oil on canvas, 180.7 × 196.0 cm, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. The women are harvesting potatoes. #arthistory #painting #oilpainting #labor

My sketch for today. According to DC Comics, September 20th each year is celebrated as Batman Day. Hey, I don’t make the rules. So I did this messy sketch, based on a photo reference. Drawn freehand on my iPad Pro using the SketchClub app. #BatmanDay #digitalart #ipadart #artapp #drawingapp

By George Bellows (1882-1925), Men of the Docks, 1912, oil on canvas, 114.3 × 161.3 cm, National Gallery, London. More in ALT. #Art #arthistory #painting #labor

My messy sketch of the painting Holy Family, by Doménikos Theotokópoulos, called El Greco (1541-1614). Drawn freehand on my iPad Pro using the Sketch Club app. And the original work. #arthistory #Art #digitalart #ipadart #painting #oilpainting

"Mine America's Coal,” 1943, by Norman Rockwell (1894–1978), oil on canvas, 35.5 x 53.5 cm, private collection. #arthistory #oilpainting #painting #labor

Mowers, ca. 1860-1869, by Charles-Émile Jacque (1813-1894), oil on panel, 27.3x21.9 cm, The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, United Kingdom. More in ALT. #arthistory #painting #oilpainting

Excerpt: ‘It is not the first time Trump’s administration has gone after displays related to enslavement. In August, Trump claimed that the Smithsonian’s museums emphasize “how bad Slavery was,” a further sign that they were “OUT OF CONTROL.”’ #racism #censorship www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

Ford Madox Brown (1821–1893), Work, 1863, oil on canvas, 68.4 x 99 cm, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (UK). 
#arthistory #painting #oilpainting #art #labor

John Singer Sargent, “Women at Work”, ca. 1912, oil on canvas, 56.52 x 71.12 cm (22 1/4 x 28 in.), private collection. #arthistory #painting #oilpainting

By African-American artist Charles White (1918-1979), Harvest Talk, 1953, charcoal, Wolff's carbon drawing pencil & graphite, w/stumping & erasing, The Art Institute of Chicago, © The Charles White Archives Inc. More info in ALT. #arthistory #blackart #BlackArtists #blackartist #drawing

A mural done as part of the New Deal WPA Federal Art Project (1935–1943). By Louise Emerson Ronnebeck (1901-1980), 1940, oil, 5 x 7 feet, location: Wayne Aspinall Federal Building and Courthouse, site 2, Grand Junction, CO. #arthistory #womanartist #womenartists #labor

A depiction of child labor, by Joan (sometimes spelled Juan) Planella y Rodríguez (1850-1910), The Working Girl (Nena Obrera, or La niña obrera), oil on canvas, 1889, Museu d'Historia de Catalunya, Barcelona. More in ALT. #arthistory #labor #childlabor #painting #oilpainting

My sketch for today, “Jade,” based on a photo reference supplied by the subject. Drawn freehand on my iPad Pro using the Sketch Club app. #digitalart #ipadart #sketchclubapp #artapp

Evgeni Shirokov (1931-2017), Worker on a Cigarette Break, oil on canvas, 151 by 111 cm (59 1/2 by 43 3/4 in), photo: Sotheby’s London, June 2, 2015. #arthistory #art #painting #oilpainting #labor

No surprise, alas. #protest #resist www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

By African-American artist Aaron Douglas (1899-1979), Building More Stately Mansions, 1944, oil on canvas board, 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 inches), RISD Museum, Rhode Island School of Design. More in ALT. #arthistory #blackart #blackartist #labor

By Jules Breton (French, 1827–1906), The Song of the Lark, 1884, oil on canvas, 110.6 × 85.8 cm (43 1/2 × 33 3/4 in.), The Art Institute of Chicago. #arthistory #painting #oilpainting

Quote: "Polls consistently suggest a sort of white evangelical inferiority complex: a fear that their influence is waning and their religious beliefs are under fire." #gunviolence #guns www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...

“The Christ of the Breadlines,” 1950, by Fritz Eichenberg (1901-1990), wood engraving, as a print it appears in many collections, both public and private. #arthistory #printmaking #Poverty

By Reginald Marsh, ‘Why Not Use the "L"?,’ oil and tempera on canvas mounted on composition board, 36 1/8 × 48 1/8in. (91.8 × 122.2 cm), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. More in ALT. #arthistory #Art #painting

By Gerritt A. Beneker (1882-1934), “Concrete Ammunition / Second - Line - Defense,” a World War I poster More info in ALT. #arthistory #illustration #labor

Jean-François Millet (1814-1875), “Norman milkmaid,” ca. 1853-1854, oil on canvas, 13 x 10 1/8in (33 x 25.7cm), photo: Bonhams, New York, July 8, 2020. #arthistory #painting #oilpainting #labor

On the left, Norman Rockwell, Rosie the Riveter, 1943. On the right, by Michelangelo (1475-1564), The Prophet Isaiah, fresco, from the Sistine Chapel. #arthistory #illustration #labor #painting

James E. Allen (1894–1964), The Coal Heavers, ca. 1935, etching on paper, plate: 11 7⁄8 x 9 7⁄8 in. (30.2 x 25.0 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC. . #arthistory #printmaking #etching #labor

By Francis De Erdely (1904-1959), The Fish Market, oil on canvas, 40 by 50 inches (101.6 by 127 cm), photo: Sotheby’s New York, 02 October 2018. #arthistory #painting #oilpainting

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An art history post for Labor Day: by Max Weber (1864-1920), “Laborers at Work,”oil on canvas, 20 by 31 inches (50.8 by 78.7 cm), photo: Sotheby’s New York, 02 October 2018. More info in ALT. #arthistory #painting #oilpainting #labor

By an unknown artist, The Rainbow Portrait of Queen Elizabeth, c. 1600-1602, oil on canvas, height: 127 cm (50 in); width: 99.1 cm (39 in), in the collection of the Marquess of Salisbury, on display at Hatfield House, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England. #arthistory #painting #oilpainting #fashion

Why do you appreciate unions? I’ll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits

By Edgar Degas (1834-1917), The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer, cast by A. A. Hébrard, partially tinted bronze, cotton tarlatan, silk satin, and wood, 38 1/2 inches (97.8 cm) high, this casting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Art, New York. #arthistory #art #sculpture #ballet

By Evelyn De Morgan (1855–1919), Flora, 1894, oil on canvas, collection of The De Morgan Foundation. Flora is the Roman Goddess of flowers #womanartist #womenartists #arthistory

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Ernie Barnes (1938-2009), The Drum Major, 2003, Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. A former pro football player, he said “I traded my cleats for canvas, my bruises for brushes, and put all the violence and power I’d felt on the field into my paintings.” Quoted in the NYT. #blackart #blackartist #Art

Suppose someone's child is gunned down. If one of you says to them, "Here are my thoughts and prayers," but does nothing else, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. - James 2:15-17 (with a modern update)

By Mary Cassatt (1844–1926), The Child’s Bath, 1893, oil on canvas, 101.3 × 67.3 cm (39 15/16 × 26 1/2 in.), Art Institute of Chicago. #arthistory #painting #oilpainting #womanartist #womenartists

On the left, my sketch, based on the painting The Raising of Lazarus by Rembrandt. Drawn freehand on my iPad Pro using the Sketch Club app. On the right, see Rembrandt’s original. #digitalart #ipadart #arthistory

By Isabel Bishop (American, 1902–1988), Tidying Up, 1941, oil on masonite, 15 x 11-1/2 in, Indianapolis Museum of Art. #arthistory #womanartist #womenartists

“Portrait of a Persian Lady", ca. 1736-1737, detail, unknown Persian artist, ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. More info in ALT. #arthistory #persianart

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By Reginald Marsh (1898-1954), “500,000 Czechs on Nazi Front,” 1938, tempera on masonite, 24 x 18 in. (61 x 45.7 cm.), photo: Christie’s New York, 23 May 2013. More info in ALT. #arthistory #painting #WPA #socialrealism

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