Me too. Those are people working there and they have loved ones who care about them.

A few social commentators saw teddy bears as ominous: They feared that some girls’ preference for soft animals over humanlike dolls would become all-consuming, replacing the female urge to nurture babies—and eventually lead to childless marriages.

You can’t make this kind of stuff up.

Wikipedia mobile links:

Ethel Sands

Anna Hope “Nan” Hudson (1869–1957)

Could you “share” the link to a reading list app\service? Or maybe share it with Kindle? If either of those work I’m extremely happy with just a thumbs up though.

Not all art is for everyone I suppose . Personally I like abstract expressionism.

I’ve always liked old Jack the Dripper from the first time I ever saw his work when my elementary school teacher showed me black and white pictures of his art from one of her art books. He’s definitely not the best human being but I’ve always really responded to his art.

Alchemy is one of Jackson Pollock’s earliest poured paintings, executed in the revolutionary technique that constituted his most significant contribution to twentieth-century art. After long deliberation before the empty canvas, he used his entire body in a picture-making process that can be described as drawing in paint. By pouring streams of commercial paint onto the canvas from a can with the aid of a stick, Pollock made obsolete the conventions and tools of traditional easel painting. Surrealist notions of chance and automatism are given full expression in Pollock’s classic poured paintings, in which line no longer serves to describe shape or enclose form, but exists as an autonomous event, charting the movements of the artist’s body. As the line thins and thickens it speeds and slows, its appearance modified by chance behavior of the medium such as bleeding, pooling, or blistering.

When Alchemy is viewed from a distance, its large scale and even emphasis encourage the viewer to experience the painting as an environment. The textured surface is like a wall on which primitive signs are inscribed with white pigment squeezed directly from the tube. Interpretations of these markings have frequently relied on the title Alchemy; however, this was assigned not by Pollock, but by Ralph Manheim and his wife, neighbors of the Pollocks in East Hampton.

Text is from Guggenheim Collection website

That’s beautiful

I remember when that happened. It’s sad to see irreplaceable history being destroyed.

Buried during the great COVID toilet paper rush?

I think it’s probably way to early to know. I imagine it’ll largely depend on rarity and condition and with the being so many it’ll probably take a while to catalog everything. I honestly don’t know though.

The look on her face is amazing

Me too!

Personally I’m not the biggest fan of monet but paintings like this reminds me how great he can be

This is fantastic. I love it

Looks a tiny bit like Stephen Colbert to me. Just a little.

That’s incredibly expressive

Agree with them or not there are people who are upset about these statues of traitors coming down.

Well the history is still in the history books. The civil war and Robert e Lee will be covered in high school history classes. It’s just that statues of him are taken down. Rightfully so in my opinion. He’s a traitor to the United States of America. He ordered people to kill Americans. He shouldn’t have a statue dedicated to him in our country.

Oh crap. I screwed up. I didn’t think it was that one just because the October one went over the US more than just new England. I got the notification on my phone and I thought. “how cool. Another one!” I got to see that one a little. Unfortunately it was cloudy. I’m not in NE either. Sorry ☹️