James Abbot McNeill Whistler's "Harmony in Pink and Grey (Portrait of Lady Meux)"

Seven works of art I would like to see at the Frick

I recently visited New York and seeing the Frick was part of my plans, but due to time constraints I couldn't do it.  Anyway, in an effort to turn lemons into lemonade, I'm going to post seven works of art from the Frick that I wish I could have seen.  

Nationality: American

Born-Died: 1834-1903

Creation Date: 1881

Size: 76.3 × 36.6  in (193.7 × 93 cm)

Media: Oil on canvas 

Location: The Frick Collection, New York City, New York, USA

I love it!

Thomas Dewing "A Reading"

Nationality: American

Born-Died: 1851-1938

Creation Date: 1897

Size: 20.25 x 30.25 in (51.3 x 76.8 cm)

Media: Oil on canvas

Location: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC, USA

Herbert James Draper's "Gates of Dawn"

Nationality: English

Born-Died: 1617-1694
Creation Date: 1900

Size: 78 x 40 in (198 x 100 cm)

Media: Oil on canvas

Location: The Drapers' Company Collection, London, UK

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St. Giles Cathedral, Day 2: Stained Glass Window

Nationality: Scottish
Media: Stained glass
Location: St. Giles Church, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Photo by me.

Ayn Rand vs. Thomas Kinkade, "The Fountainhead" vs. "Cobblestone Bridge"

This is the first in new a series of posts where I will compare two works of art. I do not plan on doing posts like this every day, but I do have many comparisons planned.
 
Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead"
Nationality: American

Born/Died: 1905-1982

Creation Date: 1943
Media: Fiction Novel 
 Novel


Thomas Kinkade's "Cobblestone Bridge"
Nationality: American
Born/Died: 1958

Creation Date: 2000
Media: Painting



Thomas Kinkade and Ayn Rand are artists with some similarities and some important differences. Although there are many things to compare between these two artists, in this comparison I will focus only on the metaphysical assessments of reality reflected in each and I will point out how they are different.

Unknown Work by Richard Treaster

Nationality: American

Richard Treaster was an artist from the Cleveland area but few people that I know there know his work. Apparently he enjoyed a long, successful career and was so successful he was able to leave his day-job teaching at the Cleveland Institute of Art--a feat repeated by few there. I have only seen a few of his watercolors in person and I assume most of them are in private collections, but the few that I have seen were very nice. I think his critics say he was "too commercial" but since that criticism is completely irrational I simply dismiss it outright.

Ironically, after college I had the good fortune to be friends and roommates with Treaster's grandson for many years and I could see right away that my friend's mom had been painted in several portraits.

Unknown painting by Delphin Enjolras

Joaquín Sorolla's "La Niña Curiosa"

The color in this painting is amazing.

J.M.W. Turner's "The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last Berth to be broken up, 1838"

Thomas Cooper Gotch's "The Child Enthroned"

John Singer Sargent Week: "Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose"

John Singer Sargent Week: "Waterfall"

Joaquín Sorolla's "Two Sisters"