A Certain Slant

 

 

 

A Certain Slant, 1999, oil on canvas. 

Martha Mayer Erlebacher, 1937-2013, American. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

 

 

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Elizabeth Farren, (born c. 1759-1829), Irish actress later Countess of Derby, 1790, oil on canvas. 

Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1769-1830, British.   Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

 

 

 

 

 

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Staircase Group (Portrait of Raphaelle Pealeand Titian Ramsay Peale) and detail, 1795, oil on canvas. 

Charles Wilson Peale, 1741-1827, American.  Philadelphia Museum of Art

 

 

 

 

 

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The Fall of Icarus, bronze, 1849. 

Hippolyte Ferrat, 1822-1882, French.  Philadelphia Art Museum

 

 

 

 

Study of a Nude Man, early 1840’s, oil on canvas.

Attributed to Gustave Courbet, 1819-1877, French.  Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

 

 

 

 

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Boy With Cat and detail, 1868, oil on canvas. 

Auguste Renoir, 1841-1919, French.  On loan in 2017 from the Musée d’Orsay, Paris to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

 

 

 

 

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Figure study:  standing male nude from rear, 1880, charcoal on cream laid paper.

  Attributed to Susan MacDowell Eakins, 1851-1938.  Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

 

 

 

 

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The Last of the Buffalo and a study for the painting, 1888, oil on canvas. 

Alfred Bierstadt, 1830-1902,  American.  Corcoran Collection at the National Gallery of Art, DC

I take this magnificent tableau to be self-exculpatory fiction.  It was not American Indians who decimated the buffalo.

 

 

 

 

 

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The Embrace, 1900-10, watercolour and gouache. 

Auguste Rodin, 1840-1917, French.  Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

 

 

 

 

The Dream, 1910, oil on canvas

Henri Rousseau, 1844-1910, French.  MOMA, NY

 

 

 

 

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People on the Cafe Terrace, 1913, oil on canvas. 

Elisabeth Epstein, 1879-1956, Russian. Promised gift to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

 

 

 

 

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Portrait of a Young Woman, 1913, drypoint 7/30. 

Jacques Villon, 1875-1963, French.  Philadelphia Art Museum

 

 

 

 

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Hand of Rodin with a Female Figure, plaster, 1917. 

Auguste Rodin, 1840-1917, French.  National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

 

 

 

 

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Seated Nude, 1919, oil on canvas. 

Pierre Bonnard, 1867-1947, French.  Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

 

 

 

 

Seated Woman, 1919-1925, cherrywood and iron. 

Elie Nadelman, 1882-1946, American born Poland. On loan to the Jewish Museum, NY in 2020 by the Phillips Academy, Andover. 

Moving from Warsaw to Paris in 1904 where he lived for 10 years, Nadelman’s sculpture was known to and influential among the Modernists.  He moved to the US at the beginning of WW1. 

 

 

 

 

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Figure, 1921, oil on canvas. 

Varvara Stepanova,  1894-1954. Russian.  MOMA, NY

 

 

 

 

Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War) and detail, 1936. 

Salvador Dali, 1904-1989, Spanish.  Philadelphia Art Museum

 

 

 

 

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Illustration in oil on canvas for ‘The Ladies Home Journal’ of March 1946. 

This was subtitled ‘”This is so wonderful,” Emmett thought.’

Andrew Loomis, 1892-1959, American.   Delaware Art Museum

 

 

 

Jazz, 1947, print.

Henri Matisse, 1859-1964, French. MOMA, NY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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People in the Sun, 1960, oil on canvas. 

Edward Hopper, 1882-1967, American.  Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, DC

 

 

 

 

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Man with Yellow Pants, 1964, paper, oil and pencil on polished stainless steel. 

Michelangelo Pistoletto, Italian, born 1933.  MOMA, NY

 

 

 

 

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Black Doorway III, oil on canvas with objects, 1966

Elizabeth Osborne, American born 1936.  On loan by the artist to the Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington in 2016

 

 

 

 

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Untitled (Involvement Series), 1968 oil on canvas; 

Wanda Pimentel, born 1943, Brazilian.  Exhibited in the International POP exhibition at the Philadelphia Art Museum in 2016

 

 

 

 

 

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Quick Life Painting, house paint on panel, 1996. 

Scott Rigby, student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts to which he loaned this in 2015

 

 

 

 

 

Cry Laughing, 1997, 8 C-type prints on aluminum. 

Sam Taylor-Johnson, British born 1967. Baltimore Museum of Art

 

 

 

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Portrait of Sal, 2011, oil on linen (head study for a much larger work). 

 Renée P. Foulks, American  born 1958.  Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

 

 

 

 

 

 

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