Thomas Dewing | Tonalist painter

Thomas Wilmer Dewing (May 4, 1851 - November 5, 1938) was an American painter working at the turn of the 20th century.

Schooled in Paris, Dewing was noted for his figure paintings of aristocratic women. He was a founding member of the Ten American Painters and taught at the Art Students League of New York. The Freer Gallery of Art at the Smithsonian Institution has a collection of his works.

He was the husband of fellow artist Maria Oakey Dewing.

Personal life and education

Thomas was born in Boston, Massachusetts to parents Sophronia Durant and Paul Dewing, and served as a lithographic apprentice until at least 1870 when he was 19 years old.

He later studied at the Académie Julian in Paris with Gustave Boulanger and Jules Lefebvre beginning in 1876.

Mahmoud Said | Pioneer of modern Arab art

Mahmoud Said Bey / حمود سعيد (April 8, 1897 - April 8, 1964) was an Alexandrian judge and modern painter.

Mahmoud Said was born in Alexandria, Egypt; his father, Muhammad Said Pasha, was of Turkish origin and was the former Prime Minister of Egypt.

Queen Farida of Egypt was his niece and she described him as "a quiet, gentle, oppressively timid man".

After receiving his high school diploma, he went on to law school, receiving his degree in 1919.

Filippo Palizzi | Girl on the rock in Sorrento, 1871

Filippo Palizzi (Vasto, Chieti, 1818 - Naples 1899) was an Italian painter.

The Girl on the Rock in Sorrento is in the Balzan Collection in Milan, Italy.

The Barbizons were concerned with light and simple rustic and genre scenes.

Ettore Tito | Genre painter

Ettore Tito (17 December 1859 - 26 June 1941) was an Italian artist, particularly known for his paintings of contemporary life and landscapes in Venice and the surrounding region.

He trained at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice and from 1894-1927 was the Professor of Painting there.

Tito exhibited widely and was awarded the Grand Prize in painting at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.

Max Svabinsky (1873-1962)

Max Švabinský (1873-1963) was a Czech painter🎨, draughtsman, graphic artist, and professor in Academy of Graphic Arts in Prague.

Švabinský is considered one of the more notable artists in the history of Czech painting and produced significant work during the first half of the 20th century.

He was relatively unusual among modernist artists in that his work was accepted by the communist regime; this was due at least in part to his having formed his artistic personality prior to 1900, prior to the advent of cubism. | © Wikipedia

Max Švabinský (1873-1963) è stato un pittore Ceco🎨, disegnatore, grafico e professore presso l'Accademia di arti grafiche di Praga.

È uno degli artisti più importanti del XX secolo, ammirato per la straordinaria abilità disegnativa e una grande varietà di tecniche grafiche. Si rese molto benemerito per far conoscere le belle arti ceche a tutta l'Europa.

Dalla fine degli anni Venti, dimorava spesso insieme alla moglie Ela presso la famiglia Vejrych a Kozlov vicino a Česká Třebová. Nel 1910 fu nominato professore dell'Academia di Praga.

Nel giornale Rajské sonáty, ampliò nel 1917 la gamma di proprie possibilità espressive con l'incisione in legno. Inoltre è autore di mosaiche per il Monumento Nazionale sul colle Žižkov a Praga, di cartoni per tre finestre colorate del Duomo di San Vito di Praga, nonché dell' abbozzo di una miniatura grafica per francobollo.

Max Švabinský continuò a disegnare quasi fino agli ultimi giorni della sua vita e morì il 10 febbraio 1962 a Praga.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Seascape, 1879

Artist: Pierre-Auguste Renoir🎨 (French, 1841-1919)

Title: Seascape

Origin: France

Date: 1879

Medium: Oil on canvas

Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right: Renoir'79

Dimensions: 72.6 × 91.6 cm (28 1/2 × 36 in.)

Credit Line: The Art Institute of Chicago, Potter Palmer Collection

Reference Number: 1922.438

The name Renoir is closely associated with paintings of dancers, boaters, women, the celebration of life, and the enjoyment of leisure, which makes Seascape and its storm-tossed ocean quite unusual and unexpected.

For his landscapes, Renoir preferred sunny days with blue skies and calm winds; rarely do we see unsettled weather, and there are only four known winter scenes.

Il nome Renoir è strettamente associato con dipinti di ballerini, diportisti, donne, la celebrazione della vita e il godimento del tempo libero, il che rende Seascape ed il suo oceano tempestato di intemperie inusuali e inaspettati.

Per i suoi paesaggi, Renoir preferiva giornate soleggiate con cielo azzurro e venti calmi; raramente vediamo condizioni meteorologiche instabili e ci sono solo quattro scene invernali conosciute.

Max Liebermann | Impressionist painter

Max Liebermann, (born July 20, 1847, Berlin, Ger. - died February 8, 1935, Berlin), painter and printmaker who is known for his naturalistic studies of the life and labour of the poor. He was also the foremost proponent of Impressionism🎨 in Germany.

Claude Monet | The Geese / Le oche, 1874

The Geese was painted a few months after the first Impressionist exhibition and the painting's bright tone and thickly applied touches of color are characteristic of Monet’s🎨 experimental technique during this period.

More unusual is the painting’s vertical format and dense composition.

Tall trees shade a path that leads our eye from the rippling water in the foreground to the diminutive figures of a woman and child standing in front of a sunlit, whitewashed building. | © The Clark Art Institute