Landscape with Two Poplars
An abstract landscape painting by Vasily Kandinsky from 1912, featuring two poplar trees.
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An abstract landscape painting by Vasily Kandinsky from 1912, featuring two poplar trees.
A platter made in China, dating from around 1760 to 1800.
Lambayeque culture, North coast of Peru, 1000–1476. A single-spout vessel featuring a molded abstract human figure.
1800–50, Talavera pottery from Puebla, Mexico.
Driven by the loneliness and poverty he had experienced in the Hague, Vincent van Gogh returned to his parents’ home in the Netherlands in 1883. There he created a series of paintings of cottages based on his walks through the village. He wrote to his brother, "I feel for the brood and the nests—particularly those human nests, those cottages on the heath and their inhabitants.”
A 1707 oil painting by Willem van Mieris depicting a mother breastfeeding her child, a warm and realistic Dutch genre scene.
An 1875–76 oil painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, depicting a woman seated at a piano with soft Impressionist brushwork and warm tones.
Ukiyo-e woodblock print by Utagawa Hiroshige depicting the ferry crossing at Maisaka station, part of the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido series.
Through 1890 and 1891, Monet created a series of paintings depicting the stacks of wheat that stood outside his farmhouse in Giverny. These stacks were, for the artist, a symbol of sustenance and survival. He painted at several easels simultaneously in the field and then refined pictorial harmonies in the studio. The Art Institute has the world's largest group of Monet’s Stacks of Wheat.