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!

Nine Nudes by Warren B. Davis

Nationality: American
Born-Died: 1865-1928
Media: Oils on canvas 


I just discovered this artist's work and I think it's really nice.  I'm re-posting yesterday's painting by Davis here as well.  I suspect these works depict the same model.

Warren B. Davis' "Beside the Forest Pool"

Nationality: American
Born-Died: 1865-1928
Size: 20 x 13 in (50.8 x 33.02 cm)
Media: Oil on canvas 
Location: Private Collection

Philip de László's "Winifred Dallas-Yorke, Duchess of Portland, 1863-1954"

Nationality: Hungarian
Born-Died: 1869-1937
Creation Date: 1912
Media: Oil on canvas 


I only just discovered this painter (how could that be?) and I love his work.  I also learned that this woman was painted by Sargent and many, many other artists that I admire.  This woman's raised hand knocks me out!

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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Antonio de La Gandara's "Madame Pierre Gautreau"

Nationality: French

Born-Died: 1861-1917
Creation Date: 1898

Size: 29 x 24.5 in (74.9 x 62.2 cm)

Media: Oil on canvas

Fans of John Singer Sargent's "Madame X" might enjoy this portrait of the same woman.

Samuel Colman's "Niagara Falls"

Nationality: American

Born-Died: 1832-1920
Creation Date: c. 1863

Media: Oil on paper

Location: The Castellani Art Museum, Niagara University, New York, USA

Alice Pike Barney's "Natalie Barney in a Fur Cape"

Nationality: American

Born-Died: 1857-1931

Creation Date: 1896

Size: 36.25 x 23.25 inch (92.1 x 59.1 cm)

Media: Oil on canvas

Location: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C., USA

A beautiful portrait by a hit-or-miss painter. 

Hermann Klotz's "Empress Elizabeth of Austria"

Nationality: Austrian

Born-Died: 1978-

Creation Date: 1906

Media: Plaster (?)

Location: The  Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, USA

John White Alexander's "Isabella and the Pot of Basil"

Nationality: American

Born-Died: 1780 - 1867

Creation Date: 1897

Size: 75.625 x 36.125 inch (192.09 x 91.76 cm)

Media: Oil on canvas

Location: The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

John La Farge's "Roses on a Tray"

Nationality: All American
Born-Died: 1835 - 1910
Creation Date: 1861
Size: 20 × 12 inch (51 x  30 cm)
Media: Oil on panel
Location: The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Giovanni Boldini's "Count Robert de Montesquiou"

Nationality: Italian
Born-Died: 1842-1931
Creation Date: 1897
Size: 45.5 × 32.5 inch (115.5 x 82.5 cm)
Media: Oil on canvas
Location: Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France

John Singer Sargent's "Mrs. Charles E. Inches (nee Louise Pomeroy)"

Nationality: American
Born/Died: 1856-1925
Creation Date: 1887
Size: 34 x 23.875 in. (86.36 x 60.64 cm)
Media: Oil on canvas
Location: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

I love everything about this painting.

Frederick Ruckstull's "Evening"

Nationality: American

Born/Died: 1853–1942
Creation Date: 1891

Size: 62.5 x 18.5 x 21.25 in. (158.8 x 47 x 54 cm)

Media: Marble

Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, USA

This is a great sculpture but I not approve of the title, nor do I approve of the tradition of representing a beautiful human being and then ascribing to it an unrelated title as shortcut to conveying profound concepts. Ironically, the work usually embodies a more profound concept by itself--a view of man--without the help of a title. "Evening" is a small, concrete topic which is meaningless in itself.

Photos by me.

John Singer Sargent's "Ellen Peabody Endicott (Mrs. William Crowninshield Endicott)"

Nationality: American
Born/Died: 1856-1925
Creation Date: 1901
Size: 64.125 x 45 in. (162.9 x 114.3 cm)
Media: Oil on canvas
Location: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA



Detail by me.

Statuette by Unknown Artist

Media: Bronze
Location: National Gallery of Art (?), Washington, D.C., USA

Nice little sculpture.

John White Alexander's "June"

On this Day in Art History: David Wilkie died (1841)

Nationality: American
Born/Died: 1856-1915

Creation Date: 1911
Size: 48 7/8 x 36 in. (124 x 9.16 cm)
Location: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C., USA
Media: Oil on Canvas

Thomas Wilmer Dewing's "Lady with a Lute"

Nationality: American
Born-Died: 1851 - 1938
Creation Date: 1818
Size: 20 x 15 3/4 in. (40 x 50.5 cm)
Media: Oil on wood
Location: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA



This is a painting that was in my computer folder called "Unknown American Paintings" for years until just yesterday when I finally found the information about it. When you search for this image online there is a great deal of color difference between the various photographs of this painting, unfortunately, and the picture from the National Gallery isn't too good either. The image here seems to have been photoshopped somewhat. The detail photographs however were taken by me.

Atlas Week: John Singer Sargent's "Atlas"

On this Day in the History of Art: Leonardo da Vinci born (1452), Domenichino died (1641), Charles Wilson Peale born (1741), Ayn Rand and Frank O’Connor marry (1929), Atlas Shrugged movie released (2011)

Because the Atlas Shrugged movie is coming out today I thought it would be fun to post a week of images of Atlas by various artists from history starting with my favorite artist, John Singer Sargent.

Nationality: American
Born/Died: 1856-1925

Creation Date: 1922-1925
Size: 10 ft. diameter (307.3 cm)
Media: oil on canvas
Location: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA



This is one of my favorite depictions of Atlas and when considering the "Atlases" of Atlas Shrugged, it's fitting that he is surrounded by sleeping people. I also like how the circular format fits the design of the Atlas' sphere because in some depictions of Atlas the strong curve of the sphere is disjunctive with the rest of the composition. Unlike the Atlas of Atlas Shrugged, this Atlas is holding up "the heavens" instead of the Earth.