A Holiday
A Holiday is a work dated c. 1915, associated with Edward Henry Potthast (American, 1857–1927), in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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A Holiday is a work dated c. 1915, associated with Edward Henry Potthast (American, 1857–1927), in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Alice is a work dated 1892, associated with William Merritt Chase (American, 1849–1916), in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.
In July 1890, Claude Monet began four almost identically scaled canvases showing poppy fields near his home in Giverny. Although he did not consider these to be a series, like the 25 paintings of stacks of wheat that he began that same summer, the works certainly show his growing interest in developing several canvases simultaneously. They also demonstrate more uniform brushwork than his earlier landscapes.
Fragment is a work dated date unknown, associated with Peru, south coast, Ingenio Valley, Hacienda Estudente, in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Lekanis (Covered Dish) is a work dated 450-430 BCE, associated with Greek; Athens, in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Georges Seurat made this painting as a preparatory work for his monumental Bathers at Asnières, now in the National Gallery, London. It shows men and boys on the bank of the Seine River in the working-class Parisian suburb of Asnières. The view presented here is just across the river from the leisure park Seurat immortalized in his best-known work, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte—1884.
Sheet of Sketches is a work dated 1826, associated with Eugène Delacroix French, 1798-1863, in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Though Piet Mondrian is best known for his nonrepresentational paintings, his basic vision was rooted in landscape. He was particularly inspired by the flat topography of his native Holland, a subject he returned to even after he had begun working in an abstract style. Mondrian first sketched this farm around 1905. Nine of the 20 known related paintings and drawings of the farm, however, were created later, during World War I.
Two Border Fragments is a work dated Late 16th/early 17th century, associated with Spain, in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.