art history helena

hello & welcome to my quarantine blog! I study art history & history at durham uni and have always wanted to write about art history - I have a bunch of postcards from museums and galleries, and thought it was time to collate them all my main areas of interest are photography, large scale sculptural installations and late 19th C European painting. want to know more about/have a suggestion? send me a pm

[anthony-van-dyck]

Self portrait with a Sunflower, 1632, Anthony van Dyck

Medium: oil,canvas

[aic-asian]

Evening Rain at Koizumi (Koizumi yau), from the series “Eight Views of Kanazawa (Kanazawa hakkei)”, Utagawa Hiroshige, 1830, Art Institute of Chicago: Asian Art

Clarence Buckingham Collection Size: 24.5 x 38.1 cm (9 5/8 x 15 in.) Medium: Color woodblock print; oban

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/26459/

[carl-larsson]

Esbjorn Doing His Homework, Carl Larsson

[expressionism-art]

The Chair, 1948, Georges Braque

Medium: oil,canvas

[aic-americas]

Cup Depicting Masked Ritual Performer, Nazca, -180, Art Institute of Chicago: Arts of the Americas

Kate S. Buckingham Endowment Size: 8.3 x (3 ¼ x 4 15/16 in.) Medium: Ceramic and pigment

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/91057/

[the-barnes-art-collection]

Saint Rosalia of Palermo (Santa Rosalia de Palermo) by The A. J. Santero, The Barnes Foundation

Barnes Foundation (Philadelphia), Collection Gallery, Room 19, North Wall Medium: Water-based paint on wood panel

https://collection.barnesfoundation.org/objects/5696/

[huariqueje]

Still Life with Magnolia   -   Henri Manguin , 1946-47.

French, 1874-1949

oil on canvas,  64 x 73.5 cm.    25 ¼ x 28 7/8 in.

[fordarkmornings]

Este Mostert  -  Untitled (Three Women Dancing)

South African, b. 1959 

Acrylic on paper

[spacecamp1]

Alexander Calder, Spiral with Pumpkin, 1972, Gouache on paper

[artist-bonnard]

Bunch of Mimosa, 1945, Pierre Bonnard

[moma-paintings]

Bottle, Laurence Vail, 1945, MoMA: Painting and Sculpture

Gift of Peggy Guggenheim Size: 13 ¾ x 8 7/8 x 5 5/8" (34.8 x 22.4 x 14.3 cm) Medium: Glass bottle and stopper encrusted with shells, glass, barnacles, coral, and metal

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/80880

[ellsworth-kelly]

Black (Noir) from Suite of Twenty-Seven Color Lithographs, Ellsworth Kelly, 1964–65, MoMA: Drawings and Prints

Given anonymously Size: composition (irreg.): 25 11/16 x 19 1/16" (65.2 x 48.4 cm); sheet (irreg.): 35 ¼ x 24 1/16" (89.5 x 61.1 cm) Medium: One from a series of twenty-seven lithographs

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/72533

[topcat77]

Ellsworth Kelly

 ‘Calla Lily III’, 1983-1985

[aic-americas]

Handle Spout Vessel in Form of a Parrot, Moche, -100, Art Institute of Chicago: Arts of the Americas

Gift of Nathan Cummings Size: 21 × 18.4 cm (8 ¼ × 7 ¼ in.) Medium: Ceramic and pigment

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/6329/

[aic-americas]

Jardinière, Talavera Poblana, 1800, Art Institute of Chicago: Arts of the Americas

Gift of Eva Lewis in memory of her husband, Herbert Pickering Lewis Size: H. 31 cm (12 3/16 in.) Medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/10574/

[artist-sisley]

Bateau de Charge sur le Loing, 1880, Alfred Sisley

Medium: oil,canvas

[artist-chagall]

The Gladiolas, 1967, Marc Chagall

Medium: lithography,paper