1982.25.FA Piet Mondrian, The Winkel Mill, Pointillist Version
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Piet Mondrian was inspired to create this painting by a specific windmill in the countryside near Amsterdam.
1981.42.FA Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Ugolino and his Children
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1981.124 Hugues Merle, The First Thorns of Knowledge
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Trained in the French Academic tradition, Hugues Merle was an expert draftsman who relied on the close study of human anatomy and a smooth, polished style to achieve a sense of naturalism in his paintings.
1984.194.FA William Hogarth, The Five Orders of the Perriwigs, October 15, 1761
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
This etching was intended to make fun of the scholars James Stuart and Nicholas Revett, who had just published
1981.128 Claude Monet, Water Lilies
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Twentieth-century art is inconceivable without Claude Monet's paintings of water lilies. They are, in many ways, as important in the history of artistic invention as the Analytic Cubism of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque or the decorative abstraction of Henri Matisse.
1949.48 Anonymous, The Drunkenness of Noah
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
This print was removed from a copy of the
1959.96 Ernest Howard Shepard, Christopher Robin from "Winnie the Pooh"
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Winnie the Pooh is as beloved today as it was when it was first published in 1926 by the novelist and playwright Alan Ale
1959.98 Ernest Howard Shepard, Pooh (from Winnie the Pooh)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Winnie the Pooh is as beloved today as it was when it was first published in 1926 by the novelist and playwright Alan Ale
1963.31 Wassily Kandinsky, Murnau, Burggrabenstrasse 1, 1908
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
In the spring of 1908, Wassily Kandinsky discovered Murnau, a village located at the foot of the Bavarian Alps.
1963.34 Emile Bernard, Breton Women Attending a Pardon
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Emile Bernard’s painting shows several groups of women in rural Brittany, a region on the western