2001.344 Hofmann, Untitled


GENERAL DESCRIPTION  
The intensely colored forms of this still life seem to vibrate next to each other, heightened by the vigorously applied paint that is thickly crusted in some areas and dripped in others. The liveliness of color and paint application creates a space imbued with energy.

2000.318 Grant, Looking North


GENERAL DESCRIPTION  
This realist painting by Fort-Worth based artist J.T. Grant depicts a dramatic, partially sunlit cloud formation. Painted from memory, Grant's "real" scene borders on the surreal, with a cloud assuming the shape of a strange animal or a floating island.

2015.51.1 Honoré Daumier, The Socialist Women, No. 10: Strange, my wife has been away at the banquet a long time... it has been forty-eight hours since she left!


GENERAL DESCRIPTION  
After the French monarch Louis-Philippe lost power, women began to organize so-called banquets, which were in fact political rallies. Here, a father slouches in a chair, head in hand, as he laments that his wife has been away at a banquet for many hours. Meanwhile, he seems oblivious to his young child, who has commandeered his top hat and cane.