#Houston Fine Arts

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Title: Night Angel Holding a Waning Moon Artist: William Morris (English, 1834-1896) Date: between 1857 and 1869 Genre: religious art Period: Victorian Movement: Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood; Arts and Crafts Movement Medium: watercolor, ink, graphite, and collage on mold-made paper Dimensions: 34 cm (13.4 in) high x 8.6 cm (3.4 in) wide Location: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

[haute-lifestyle-com]

Houston Opera Announces its 2023-2024 Season; Includes Favorite's and New Work #janetwalker #hautelifestylecom #theentertainmentzonecom #Houstonopera #houstonfinearts #opera

https://www.haute-lifestyle.com/arts-culture/fine-arts-dance-symphony/6255-houston-grand-opera-announces-its-2023-24-season.html

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Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not)

Artist: Marcantonio Franceschini (Italian, 1648-1729)

Date: c. 1700

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, United States

Description

‘Noli me Tangere’ depicts the biblical scene (John 20:17) where Mary Magdalene recognizes Christ after His Resurrection. Christ is comforting Mary Magdalene but also tells her not to touch him as he is soon to ascend to Heaven and she is not to be fixated on his earthly appearance. Noli me tangere is Latin for let no one to touch me.

[thatshowthingstarted]

Bowl with Fish, Iran, probably Kashan (late 13th–mid-14th century AD).

Stone Paste, Painted in Black Under Turquoise Glaze,

7,9 x 18, 7 cm,

Image Credit: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

[allegorypaintings]

Allegory of Peace

Artist: Arent de Gelder (Dutch, 1645–1727)

Date: 1685

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, United States

[baebeylik]

Catfish Pendant. Greater Chiriqui or Coclé. Panama, 900-1500 CE.

Museum of Fine Arts Houston.

Goldweight Depicting a Catfish. Asante or related Akan-speaking peoples of Ghana. Coastal West Africa. 1700s-1900s CE.

The Art Institute of Chicago.

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Orpheus Leading Eurydice from the Underworld (1861) by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796-1875)

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Jean-Bernard Restout (1732-1797) "Young Woman with a Guitar" (1768) Oil on canvas Located in the Museum of Fine arts, Houston, Texas, United States

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The Return of Orestes

Artist: Anton von Maron (Austrian, 1733–1808)

Date: 1786, Italy

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, United States

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #NationalSkunkDay here’s a trio of 1930s tempera paintings from Museum of Fine arts Houston by the San Ildefonso Pueblo’s Martinez family:

1. Popovi Da (Tony Martinez) (1921–71) Untitled (Skunks and Squirrels Under Sky Crescent) 1930s San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico, United States Tempera on wove paper 9 5/16 × 11 1/16 in.

2. Popovi Da (Tony Martinez) Skunk, Ducks, Rooster 1930s San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico, United States Tempera on paper board 9 9/16 × 11 1/4 in.

3. Julian Martinez (1885–1943) Untitled (Skunks and Chickens) 1930s San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico, United States Tempera on paper board 10 × 11 1/16 in.

[lionofchaeronea]

The Bonaventure Pine, Paul Signac, 1893

[galleryofart]

Passing By

Artist: Ernest Martin Hennings (American, 1886–1956)

Culture: American

Date: c. 1924

Place: New Mexico, United States

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, United States of America

Description

As tightly woven as a fine tapestry, Passing By shows people of the Taos Pueblo moving through a glade of cottonwoods in the brilliant autumn sun of the Southwest. The figures and landscape are integrated as one.

Exhibited in the 1924 Venice Biennale and the winner of the gold medal in the 1926 exhibition at New York’s National Academy of Design, Passing By is among the finest paintings produced by Taos Society artist E. Martin Hennings. The Taos Society of Artists was the first art colony established west of the Mississippi River, its roots going back to 1898. Following the development of railroad travel and tourism in the Southwest, artists rushed there and embraced Pueblo culture and the dramatic colors and topography of the desert region.

Shimmering like a golden screen shot through with vivid notes of blue, this painting presents a dramatic backdrop of aspen trees against which three Taos Pueblo Indians pass by as if in a timeless procession. All three men are wrapped in woven blankets and wear silver adornment, long braids, and modern clothing. In Passing By, Hennings presents a solemn, dignified image of an enduring native culture.

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Mother with Child, St. Luke’s Baptist Church, Moonshine Village by Keith Calhoun

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Dear Whitney

[baebeylik]

Dragons of Karabakh by Faig Ahmed. Azerbaijani, 2021 CE.

Museum of Fine Arts Houston.

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Book 541

Mark Catesby’s Natural History of America: The Watercolors from the Royal Library Windsor Castle

Henrietta McBurney

Merrill Holberton / The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

From 1729 to 1749, Mark Catesby (1682-1749) labored on his life’s work, Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, better known as simply Natural History, the first comprehensive study of the flora and fauna of the Eastern seaboard of North America and the most important precursor to Audubon’s Birds of America. Published in this book for the first time are the original watercolors from which Catesby prepared the 220 etchings in Natural History. The watercolors, stored away from the light between the pages of a unique three-volume set of the book bought by King George III in 1768, are remarkably bright and fresh and display all the enthusiasm that Catesby brought to his subjects. Detailed, colorful, innovative, stately, and sometimes even whimsical, this is a book that breathes new light into Catesby’s remarkable work and talent.