#Smithsonian American Art Museum

[lionofchaeronea]

Night and Her Daughter Sleep, Mary L. Macomber, 1902

[oncanvas]

Summer Plumes, Gustave Cimiotti, circa 1928-29

Oil on canvas 50 ¼ x 40 ⅛ in. (127.7 x 101.9 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, USA

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Frank Weston Benson (1862-1951) "Summer" (1890) Oil on canvas Impressionism Located in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC, United States

[thefugitivesaint]

Margaret Ann Gaug (1909-1994), 'Submarine Interlude', 1936 Source

[arthistoryanimalia]

#TurtleTuesday:

Jacques Hnizdovsky (Ukrainian-American, 1915-1985)

Turtle, 1962

woodcut, 15 3⁄4 x 23 1⁄4 in. (40.0 x 59.1 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum 1967.77.7

(probably a Radiated Tortoise)

[antronaut]

Terry Winters - Rhizome (1998)

linoleum cut on paper 48.3 x 63.2 cm

[henk-heijmans]

Ryder's House, 1933, Smithsonian American Art Museum - by Edward Hopper (1882 - 1967), American

[7pleiades7]

Mrs. George Watson (Elizabeth Oliver) (1765), (detail), by John Singleton Copley (American, 1738-1815), oil on canvas, 101.6 x 126.69 cm, The Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

[jadeseadragon]

Thomas Hart Benton, Wheat, 1967, oil on wood, 20 x 21 in. (50.8 x 53.3 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum.

[galleryofart]

Hermia and Helena

Artist: Washington Allston (American, 1779–1843)

Date: Before 1818

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

Description

Washington Allston said that this painting represented "the singleness and unity of friendship." He posed the two women so that they suggest one figure, and they read from a shared book. In Shakespeare's comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream, Helena eloquently describes her friendship with Hermia in the third act: "So we grew together, / Like to a double cherry . . . / Two lovely berries moulded on one stem."

Like many Americans of his time, Allston was educated in the classics. He painted Hermia and Helena in England when the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge was reviving Shakespeare's plays. A friend of Allston's, Coleridge felt that Shakespeare expressed human sentiment perfectly.

[istandonsnowpiles]

Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam

[lionofchaeronea]

Elizabeth Winthrop Chanler (Mrs. John Jay Chapman), John Singer Sargent, 1893

[oncanvas]

Central Park and the Plaza, William Anderson Coffin, 1917-18

Oil on canvas 24 ¼ x 29 ¼ in. (61.6 x 74.3 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, USA

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Romaine Brooks (1874-1970) "Una, Lady Troubridge" (1924) Oil on canvas Located in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC, United States Una Troubridge was a British aristocrat, literary translator, and the lover of Radclyffe Hall, author of the 1928 groundbreaking lesbian novel, "The Well of Loneliness." Troubridge appears with a sense of formality and importance typical of upper-class portraiture, but with the sitter's prized dachshunds in place of the traditional hunting dog. Troubridge's impeccably tailored clothing, cravat, and bobbed hair convey the fashionable and daring androgyny associated with the so-called new woman. Her monocle suggested multiple symbolic associations to contemporary British audiences: it alluded to Troubridge's upper-class status, her Englishness, her sense of rebellion, and possibly her lesbian identity.

[collectionstilllife]

Thomas Hovenden (Irish, active in U.S., 1840-1895) • Still Life with Fan and Roses • 1874 • Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

[arthistoryanimalia]

It's #NationalBirdDay in the U.S. so here's a painting of one of my favorite native birds, the Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja):

Abbott Handerson Thayer (American, 1849–1921) Roseate Spoonbills, study for book Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom, c. 1905-1909 oil on paperboard, 22 7⁄8 x 26 1⁄4 in. (58.2 x 66.6 cm.)

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