Art Write American Literature Ms. Shanahan
Art Write
American LiteratureMs. Shanahan
Wednesday, October 22
Artist: Kenneth M. Adams
Title: Juan Duran
Painted: about 1933–34
http://americanart.si.edu/t2go/1lw/image-frame.html
Thursday, October 23
Artist: Oscar Edmund Berninghaus
Title: Red Pepper Time
Painted: about 1930
http://americanart.si.edu/t2go/1lw/image-frame.html
Friday, October 24
Artist: Albert Bierstadt
Title: Alaskan Coast Range
Painted: about 1889
http://americanart.si.edu/t2go/1lw/image-frame.html
Monday, October 27
Artist: Salvador Dali
Title: Swans Reflecting Elephants
http://webneel.com/salvador-dali-famous-surreal-optical-illusion-paintings
Tuesday, October 28
Artist: Salvador Dali
Title: The Persistence of Memory
http://webneel.com/salvador-dali-famous-surreal-optical-illusion-paintings
Wednesday, October 29
Artist: Edvard Munch
Title: The Scream
Painted: 1895 (one of 4 versions)
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1330
Thursday, October 30
Title: The Strange Thing Little Kiosai Saw in the River
Artist: John La Farge
Painted: 1897
http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/11388?rpp=30&pg=1&ft=john+la+farge&pos=30
Friday, October 31
Title: The Nightmare
Artist: J. Henry Fuseli
Painted: 1781
http://strictlygothic.blogspot.com/2012/05/nightmare-classic-in-gothic-art.html
Monday, November 3
Title: Fishing
Artist: Édouard Manet
Painted: ca. 1862–63
http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/436951?rpp=30&pg=1&ft=%C3%88douard+Manet&pos=8
Tuesday, November 4
Artist: Ilya Bolotowsky
Title: In the Barber Shop
Painted: 1934
http://americanart.si.edu/t2go/1sa/image-frame.html
Wednesday, November 5
Artist: Tyrone Comfort
Title: Gold Is Where You Find It
Year: 1934
http://americanart.si.edu/t2go/1sa/image-frame.html
Thursday, November 6
Artist: Allan Rohan Crite
Title: Sunlight and Shadow
Painted: 1941
http://americanart.si.edu/t2go/1sa/image-frame.html
Friday, November 7
Title: American Gothic
Artist: Grant Wood
Painted: 1930
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Gothic#mediaviewer/File:Grant_Wood_-_American_Gothic_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg
Wednesday, November 12
Title: A Cosey Corner
Artist: Francis D. Millet
Painted: 1884
http://www.jssgallery.org/Other_Artists/Millet_Francis_D/Francis_D_Millet.htm
Thursday, November 13
Title: The Library
Artist: Jacob Lawrence
Painted: 1960
http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=14376
Friday, November 14
Title: Boatmen on the Missouri
Artist: George Caleb Bingham
Painted: 1846
http://deyoung.famsf.org/blog/framework-boatmen-missouri-george-caleb-bingham
Monday, November 17
Title: Les coquelicots [Field of Poppies]
Artist: Claude Monet
Painted: 1873
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Claude_Monet_037.jpg
Tuesday, November 18
Title: The Janitor Who Paints
Artist: Palmer Hayden
Painted: ca 1937
http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=10126
Wednesday, November 19
Title: Earth Knower
Artist: L. Maynard Dixon
Painted: 1932
http://www.artesmagazine.com/2010/09/modern-art-collectors-takes-fresh-look-at-western-painter-maynard-dixon-1875-1946/
Thursday, November 20
Title: The Artist and Her Daughter
Artist: Marie Louise Élizabeth Vigée-Lebrun
Painted: ca 1785
http://www.wikiart.org/en/louise-elisabeth-vigee-le-brun/madame-vigee-lebrun-and-her-daughter-jeanne-lucie-louise-1789
Friday, November 21
Title: Government Bureau
Artist: George Tooker
Painted: 1956
http://swodemboart.wordpress.com/2013/01/16/government-bureau-by-george-tooker/
Monday, December 1
Title: Canoe in the Rapids
Artist: Winslow Homer
Painted: 1897
http://www.winslow-homer.com/Canoe-in-the-Rapids.html
Tuesday, December 2
Title: Sadak in Search of the Waters of Oblivion
Artist: John Martin
Painted: 1812
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadak_in_Search_of_the_Waters_of_Oblivion#mediaviewer/File:John_Martin_003.jpg
Wednesday, December 3
Title: They Did Not Expect Him
Artist: Ilya Repin
Painted: 1884
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://myweb.rollins.edu/aboguslawski/Ruspaint/repin1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://myweb.rollins.edu/aboguslawski/Ruspaint/repdidnt.html&h=225&w=224&tbnid=L_JDQ5xQ6FkZuM:&zoom=1&q=they+did+not+expect+him+repin&tbnh=160&tbnw=159&usg=__5UNzaahUVRD0VVmTYK2io1p6qvk=&docid=-uw6I-M5IVMDpM&itg=1&ved=0CD4Qyjc&ei=np9GVPTwMuiF8gGQ54DACw
Thursday, December 4
Title: Woman with a Water Jug
Artist: Jan Vermeer
Painted: 1662
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman_with_a_Water_Jug#mediaviewer/File:Jan_Vermeer_van_Delft_019.jpg
Friday, December 5
Title: Turin Spring
Artist: Giorgio de Chirico
Painted: 1914
http://www.wikiart.org/en/giorgio-de-chirico/turin-spring-1914
Monday, December 8
Title: Flower Festival
Artist: Diego Rivera
Painted: 1925
http://www.wikiart.org/en/diego-rivera/flower-festival-1925
Tuesday, December 9
Title: The Empire of Lights
Artist: René Magritte
Painted: 1954
http://www.wikiart.org/en/rene-magritte/the-empire-of-lights-1954-1
Wednesday, December 10
Title: A Ride for Liberty – The Fugitive Slaves
Artist: Eastman Johnson
Painted: ca .1862
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/495/A_Ride_for_Liberty_--_The_Fugitive_Slaves_recto
Thursday, December 11
Title: Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog
Artist: Caspar David Friedrich
Painted: 1818
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanderer_above_the_Sea_of_Fog#mediaviewer/File:Caspar_David_Friedrich_-_Wanderer_above_the_sea_of_fog.jpg
Friday, December 12
Title: Marooned
Artist: Howard Pyle
Painted: 1909
http://www.nrm.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/marooned_web.jpg