Friday, March 21, 2014

Time to rest in the chairs they left us...Matisse, van Gogh, & Gauguin



Vincent van Gogh (Dutch artist, 1853-1890) Paul Gauguin s Armchair, 1888


Vincent van Gogh (Dutch artist, 1853-1890) Van Gogh's Chair, 1889


Henri Matisse (French artist, 1869-1954) The Lorrain Chair


Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (French artist, 1848-1903) Arm Chair 1885

Saturday, March 15, 2014

Sewing Indoors - 17C-20C Making Lace



Job Adriaensz Berckheyde (Dutch artist, 1630-1693) Lace Maker 1666-75


William Shakespeare wrote Twelfth Night c 1601-02, and its 1st recorded performance was in 1602. Duke Orsino says:
O, fellow, come, the song we had last night.
Mark it, Cesario, it is old and plain;
The spinsters and the knitters in the sun
And the free maids that weave their thread with bones
Do use to chant it: it is silly sooth,
And dallies with the innocence of love,
Like the old age.


This refers to bobbin lace: weave their thread with bones. Small bones used to be used as bobbins, to wind the thread round. Bobbin lace is essentially weaving, with the pins creating gaps to form the patterns.

Caspar Netscher (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, c 1635-1684) The Lacemaker 1662



Bernhard Keil (Danish Baroque Era Painter, 1624-1687) The Lacemaker



Bernhard Keil (Danish Baroque Era Painter, 1624-1687) The Lacemaker



Frans van Mieris the Elder (Dutch painter, 1635-1681) The Lacemaker



Gabriel Metsu (Dutch painter, 1629-1667) The Lacemaker



 Gerrit Dou (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1613-1675) Lacemaker 1667



Jan Miense Molenaer (Dutch artist. 1610-1669) Lacemaker



Johannes Vermeer (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1632-1675) The-Lacemaker-1669-70



Nicolaes Maes (Dutch artist, 1634-1693) Lacemaker 1655



 Pieter Cornelisz. van Slingelandt (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1640-1691) Lacemaker 1672-3.



 Nicolaes Maes (Dutch artist, 1634-1693) Lacemaker 1655



Pieter Jacobsz. Codde (Dutch artist,  1599-1678) Lacemaker



Nicolaes Maes (Dutch artist, 1634-1693) Lacemaker



Pieter Cornelisz. van Slingelandt (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1640-1691) Lacemaker 1670



Nicolaes Maes (Dutch artist, 1634-1693) The Lacemaker



Pieter Jacobsz. Codde (Dutch artist,  1599-1678) Lacemaker



Nicolaes Maes (Dutch artist, 1634-1693) Old Woman Dozing (Lacemaker) 1656



Gabriel Metsu (Dutch painter, 1629-1667)  Lacemaker



Giacomo Antonio Melchiorre Ceruti (Italian late Baroque painter, 1698-1767) Women Working on Pillow Lace 1720s



Joseph Wright of Derby (English artist, 1734-1797) Portrait of a Lady with her Lacework



Ralph Earl (American artist, 1751-1801) Mrs Charles Jeffery Smith (Making Bobbin Lace) 1794



Vasily Tropinin (Russian artist, 1776-1857) The Lace Maker 1823



Lace Vasily Tropinin (Russian artist, 1776-1857) Lace Making 1830



Josephus Laurentius Dyckmans (Dutch artist, 1811-1888) Lacemaker



Thomas Woolner, (English painter, 1825 -1892) Lacemaker



 Max Liebermann (German artist, 1847-1935) Brabant Lacemakers 1882



Robert Frederick Blum (American artist, 1857–1903) The Lacemakers



Joseph Bail (French artist, 1862-1921) Lacemaker



Julian Alden Weir (American artist, 1852-1919) The Lace Maker 1915



Charles Spencelayh (British artist, 1865-1958)The Lacemaker (Mrs Newell Making Lace) c 1920


Thursday, March 13, 2014

Cats by Pablo Picasso (Spanish artist, 1881–1973)



Pablo Picasso (Spanish artist, 1881–1973) Woman with Cat 1900


Pablo Picasso (Spanish artist, 1881–1973) Cat catching a bird 1939


Pablo Picasso (Spanish artist, 1881–1973) Cat eating a bird 1939


Pablo Picasso (Spanish artist, 1881–1973) Still life with cat and lobster 1962


Pablo Picasso (Spanish artist, 1881–1973) Reclining female nude playing with cat 1964


Pablo Picasso (Spanish artist, 1881–1973) Jacqueline sitting with her cat 1964

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Cats by Welsh-born Gwen John 1876-1939



Gwen John (British painter, 1876-1939) Cat c 1908


Gwen John (British painter, 1876-1939) Girl with a Cat


Gwen John (British painter, 1876-1939) Wide-Awake Tortoiseshell Cat


Gwen John (British painter, 1876-1939) Interior with Woman Sewing at Window and Cat


Gwen John (British painter, 1876-1939) Cat


Gwen John (British painter, 1876-1939) Black Cat on Blue and Pink


Sunday, March 9, 2014

Cats by Franz Marc (German artist, 1880-1916)



Franz Marc (German artist, 1880-1916)


Franz Marc (German artist, 1880-1916) Cats 1910


Franz Marc (German artist, 1880-1916) Nude with Cat 1910


Franz Marc (German artist, 1880-1916) Two Cats Blue and Yellow 1912


Franz Marc (German artist, 1880-1916) Girl with Cat 1912


Franz Marc (German artist, 1880-1916) Three Cats 1913