MY FANCIES

Things I like...or that tickle my imagination

[catgondoliere]

Theodore Robinson (American, 1852-1896)

White Lilies

[thwarthistory]

Philip Pearlstein, Seated Male Nude, 1963

[mr-e-gallery]

Alfred Pellan (Canadian, 1906-1988) - Jeu de quinze

[saintofmontreal]

Les fraises by Alfred Pellan, 1920.

[catgondoliere]

Fabián de la Rosa (Filipino, 1869-1937)

Boy looking for shells on the beach

[kgfrocks]

El Kundiman -Fabián de la Rosa, 1930

[selfportraitsofcolor]

Cemal Tollu Self Portrait Turkey (1933) [Source], [Source]

Wikipedia says:

Cemal Tollu (19 April 1899 - 26 July 1968) was a Turkish painter. He served in the Turkish war of independence as a cavalry lieutenant and witnessed the Fire of Manisa. In 1933 he founded the D Group with several other painters who were devoted to Cubism and Constructivism. In his later life he was to teach at the Fine Arts Academy of Istanbul until 1965.

[thunderstruck9]

Fortunato Depero (Italian, 1892-1960), Rotazione di ballerina e pappagalli [Rotation of Ballerina and Parrots], 1917. Oil on canvas, 140.5 x 89.5 cm. Mart, Rovereto

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Star Magnolia (Magnolia Stellata)

[love-for-carnation]

Carnations and Fuschias, 1876 Annie Feray Mutrie (1826-1893, British)

Annie was born in Ardwick. She was the youngest daughter of Sarah and Robert Mutrie, a cotton trader from Rothesay, Bute in Scotland. She had an elder sister Martha and they would follow very similar careers. Annie and her sister attended Manchester School of Design and studied under George Wallis. She exhibited in Manchester and in the 1850s they started to exhibit at the Royal Academy. The two sisters moved to London in 1854. The following year Annie was exhibiting at the Royal Academy where her paintings of Orchids and Azaleas were lauded by John Ruskin who, in time, bought two Annie's paintings. Annie painted flowers. She exhibited regularly and despite her gender other artists bought her work. Moreover, both the Royal Academy and John Ruskin were known for their poor regard for women artists and despite this Ruskin continued to compliment her work and the Royal Academy saw her nominated to be an associate member.

[dailyclassicart]

Robert William Wood - "The Gilded Lane"

[catgondoliere]

Theresa Bernstein (1890-2002)

New York Public Library Interior (c1918)

[catsofyore]

“Little Bright Eyes”. Postcard from my collection, 1905.

[nobrashfestivity]

Suad al Attar, Garden of Eden, 1993

[thunderstruck9]

Suad Al-Attar (Iraqi, 1942), Garden of Eden, 1993. Oil on canvas,183 x 153 cm.

[oldartss]

Portrait of a Jack Russell by Joaquín Sorolla (1909)

[oldsardens]

Carel Fabritius - Self-portrait

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Carel Fabritius (1622-1654) "The Goldfinch" (1654) Oil on panel Dutch Golden Age Located in the Mauritshuis, The Hague, Netherlands

Fabritius died young, caught in the explosion of the Delft gunpowder magazine on 12 October 1654, which destroyed a quarter of the city—over 100 people were killed and thousands were injured—along with his studio and many of his paintings. Only about a dozen paintings have survived.

"The Goldfinch" was lost and unknown for more than two centuries before it first came to light in 1859. Théophile Thoré-Bürger, who had helped to restore the reputation of Vermeer, found it in the collection of former Dutch army officer and collector Chevalier Joseph-Guillaume-Jean Camberlyn in Brussels.