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Mary Stevenson Cassatt, Paul Cézanne, Salvador Dali, Edgar Degas, Vincent Van Gogh, L. S. Lowry, R. A., Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, Henry Moore, Berthe Morisot, Pablo Picasso, Camille Pissarro, Jackson Pollock, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Mark Rothko, Georges Seurat, Alfred Sisley, Antoni Tapies, Joseph Mallard William Turner.

Mary Stevenson Cassatt, 1844 - 1926..
Mary Cassatt was born in 1844 and studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy in Philadelphia, U.S.A. After traveling all over Europe she then settled in Paris  in 1874 and became close to the artist Degas. His influence on her work led her  into the  French Impressionist movement and she exhibited some of her work in the Impressionist exhibitions of 1879 - 1886. Her knowledge of the Impressionists prompted her brother Alexander to buy paintings by Renoir, Manet, Monet, Pissarro and Degas. In the 1890's in Paris she became influenced by an exhibition of Japanese prints and her work  improved in clarity and color. Her involvement in printing began to expand and throughout her career became well known in this field of art. She made France her home for the rest of her life and is known as being a prolific painter in pastels and water-colors. Mary Cassatt was a master painter and much admired by other women artists.
She died 1926.
Collections of  paintings by Mary Stevenson Cassatt.
National Gallery of Art, Washington. D. C.
La musee des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux.
Cassatt paintings. The Artchive.
Sheldon Collection.
Web Museum, Paris
Musee D'Art Americain, Giverny, France.
Musee des Beaux-Arts.
Art in Context
The Metropolitan Museum of Arts.
CGFA
Absoluteearts.

Paul Cézanne. 1839 - 1906
Born January 19th 1839 at Aix - en - Provence. His early paintings were influenced by the artist Eugene Delacroix and in his oil painting he tended to use black which made his paintings seem dark. Other artists to influence Cézanne were Courbet, Daumier and Manet. It was in the 1870's when he began to show his Impressionistic abilities and spent some time living with the renown collector and amateur artist Dr. Gachet. His interest in still life became more prominent as self criticism of his work meant that he would paint extremely slowly as he progressed as an Impressionist. His palette now was much lighter in tone without the use of black in his colours as in the early years of his career, Due to his paintings being criticized in the  third Impressionist exhibition in 1877 he decided to return home in Aix - en - Provence, and began to develop an interest in  'plein air'  painting and in the area around his home he found many subjects to paint. His work is now much acclaimed by collectors, as his talents as one of the leading impressionist is appreciated by the art establishment.
Died October 22nd 1906 at Aix - en - Provence.
Collections of  paintings by Paul Cézanne.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Tate Gallery, London.
Cezanne paintings. The Artchive.
State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg. Russia.
E. G. Buehrle Collection,  Zurich.
Encyclopedia for Paul Cézanne.
Web Museum, Paris.
Le Petit Musee Cézanne.
CNN European Cézanne.
CGFA
Gardens of sunlight.

Salvador Dali. 1904 - 1989  H. S. A. A.
One of the greatest painters of the 20th Century
Studied as a young man at the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts in  Madrid, and he had his first exhibition of his paintings in Barcelona in 1925.  At the age of 25 he became a member of the group of surrealists and also met his future wife Gala and they became very close. His prominence in the surrealists movement led his to become it's most influential painter but was expelled from the group in 1934. Dali left Europe in 1940 to go to America and it was in 1941 that the Museum of  Modern Art, New York gave him a major exhibition of his work which set him on the path to fame. He started a new series of 19 large paintings in a new style which dwelt on religion and historical scenes. Following the death of his wife Gala in 1982 Dali himself began to have poor health with heart problems  Throughout his life he worked in all types of mediums and after he died on January 23rd 1989 his family found thousands of paintings in his studio. He will be remembered as being one of the great artist's of the 20th century.
Collections of  paintings by Salvador Dali.
Salvador Dali Estate Foundation ***
The Salvador Dali Museum. ***
The Salvador  Dali Museum ( Early Years ) ***
The Salvador  Dali Museum ( Transitional period ) ***
The Salvador  Dali Museum ( Surrealism ) ***
The Salvador Dali Museum ( Classic period ) ***
Dali paintings. The Artchive.
Artstar.
Tate Gallery, London.
The Salvador Dali Artchives.
Galleria Narthex. Dali Exhibition.
Virtual Gallery
The Life of Salvador Dali.
Webcoast. The Salvador Dali Exhibits.
The Salvador Dali Art Gallery.
Britannica.

Edgar Degas. 1834 - 1917..
Born in Paris on the 19th July 1834.
Studied art under the painter Lamothes and at 18 began his studies at  the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris. Soon however he was tempted to move to Italy where he studied the Renaissance movement and paintings. After five years in Italy he returned to Paris and started to paint the portraits of his own family and close friends. His involvement with the artist Manet led him into painting theatrical backdrops.
It was around 1869 that his interest in the ballet dancer began and this interest in the female ballet dancer remained one of his favorite subjects to paint for the rest of his life. Other favorite subjects were the racecourses and racehorses and cafe scenes in Paris. His use of the pastels medium was arrived at by his early study of the paintings of Ingres,  and Degas found the medium to his liking when sketching the movement and form of the ballet dancer. Degas was a great painter of the female form and was well liked throughout the art establishment. He died on September 27th 1917, Paris leaving thousands of drawings and sketches in his preferred medium of pastels.
Collections of  paintings by Edgar Degas.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota.
Degas paintings. The Artchive.
Tate Gallery, London.
National Gallery of Art, Washington.
National Museum of Western Art, Tokio.
National Gallery, London.
Web Museum, Paris.
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
The Artchive.
CGFA
Gardens of sunlight.

Vincent Van Gogh,   Dutch. 1853 - 1890
Born in 1853 son of Theodorus Van Gogh and Anna Carbentus in Groot - Zundern, Holland. He had a brother called Theo. born 1st May 1857. By 1869 he became apprenticed to art dealers Goupil & Cie, Paris.  In 1873 Vincent was transferred to London  where he visited the museums and art galleries to  increase his knowledge of the Victorian painters. His interest in the bible then took preference over his art and  by 1877 he returned to Amsterdam and his religious studies. He was sent to a mining village in Belgium to preach but lived in extreme poverty and by 1880 his interest in religion had declined mainly through personal failure and he took up painting full time again. His brother Theo. had become very close during his adult life and they corresponded by letter on a regular basis with Theo. sending Vincent the art materials he constantly requested.
His poverty continued, and it was only his brother Theo's  belief that one day Vincent's paintings would be appreciated by the art establishment that sustained their close and personal  friendship. It was the year 1888, Vincent's painting began to show some improvement and he journeyed to  Arles in Provence to paint landscapes. He rented a house which became known as the "Yellow House of the artist" and now he started to find himself, and with a new style of painting  began a new and productive era. Over the summer months he created numerous paintings of the countryside and he began to think about starting a school of painting and a new artist community. Paul Gauguin joined him at Arles in the October but over the following months due to their constant arguments the relationship deteriorated. After the failed attack on Gauguin with a razor, Vincent started to lose his mind and cuts off his left earlobe. Vincent continues to work again after being cared for but his mental state was now fragile and breakdowns followed at regular intervals and he was transferred to a mental asylum.
By the January of 1890  still suffering from mental breakdowns he continued to paint when he could. In this last year of his life, the art critics had started to appreciate his paintings but through his continued mental illness and financial hardship, on the 27th July Vincent shot  himself in the chest with a pistol he had borrowed and he died on the 29th July 1890.
Represented in many public and private collections.
Collections of  paintings by Vincent Van Gogh.
Vincent Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.
Vincent Van Gogh famous paintings.
Letters to Theo. from Vincent Van Gogh.
Tate Gallery, London.
Vincent Van Gogh. The Artchive.
E. G. Buehrle collection, Zurich.
Van Gogh Gallery Collection.
Vincent Van Gogh Information Gallery.
The Art Museum
CGFA
Gardens of sunlight

L. S. Lowry, R. A.,  British Industrial Landscape painter. 1887 - 1976 H. S. A. A.
Born on the 1st November 1887 in Stretford, Manchester. Lancashire. U. K.
It would be in early  1909 when his family moved to Station Road, Pendlebury, where he lived for around 40 years. He studied at Salford School of Art part time in the period 1915-28 and during the evenings he worked as a  rent collector  in the Manchester and Salford area. He would draw in a small pocket size sketchbook in pencil.,  the local people, life and grimy buildings during his working visits into the streets and houses. After working all day at the Salford School of Art and in the evenings collecting the rents he would go into his studio and paint during the night and into the early hours,  where he created in oil paints the industrial paintings depicting the streets and mills of  Lancashire.
During the 1930's and exhibitions in  Manchester and Salford,  it was in 1939 when he was offered an exhibition at the Lefevre Gallery , London. Following the London exhibition , interest in  his paintings really began and  L. S. Lowry had finally arrived on to the art scene. Being a very cautious man regarding money  it wasn't until 1952 when sales of his paintings were in steady demand that he decided one evening to give up his part time insurance and rent collector job. Well known for the stylized stick like figures of workers of the industrial cotton mills of Lancashire and received the honor of R. A. for his life's work in art. Lowry was always to be seen in his beloved Salford and Manchester, sketching the grimy streets full of children and people about their work in his personalized  unique way. Late in his career he specialized in depicting the solitary lonely misfit of society, but it's mainly through his  paintings of the working people of Salford and Manchester at the street level of the 1930's depression  to the 1960's that he will be remembered for. He became an active president of the Bury Art Society and was well known by it's painter members.
On one of  Theo's visit to Lowry's studio, he commented on the huge amounts of Flake White oil paint that Lowry used in his paintings to which he replied, "I buy huge quantities of white, but I only use Flake White oil paint as I have found that over a few years it tends to  mellow quickly with age and this is part of the atmospheric light effect I want in my paintings. " It appears that Lowry had experimented with various colours and painted a number of small panels with colour, including Flake White and then placed the panels in a box which he put away for a few years. When he opened the box later he found to his satisfaction that the Flake White oil paint had mellowed as he intended to a greyish and yellow appearance which was  the desired effect he wanted in his paintings.
A new gallery the Lowry Center, has been constructed at Salford Keys, and is now open to the public.
A magnificent exhibition of 100 of the artists  paintings will be on show at one time at the Lowry and the public will be able to enjoy the works in this newly built exhibition centre, built specially to house the Lowry collection and to honour Salford's greatest artist of the 20th century.
During his life he became associated in Manchester and Salford area with the painter and long time friend, Theodore Zimmerman who also lived in the Manchester area.
L. S. Lowry died age 89 on the 23rd February 1976. Represented in many public and private collections.
The Lowry Centre is well worth a visit and can be accessed on the home page. A new exhibition centre in Salford, Lancashire. U. K. built specially to display the paintings of the famous artist L. S. Lowry R. A.
Collections of  paintings by Lawrence Stephen Lowry.
Tate Gallery, London.
 L. S. Lowry links to information about the artist.

Henri Matisse. 1869 - 1954 H. S. A. A.
Born 1869 French Fauvism painter. He became a student of the painter Odilon Redon and during this time his studies in art led him to the work of Cezanne and Manet. In 1905 he moved to the south of France and Joined the artist Andre Derain at Collioure. The influence of Derain changed his palette which now had become much more colourful. The colours on the coast around Collioure inspired him and his paintings began to show a new style,  full of colour and movement.
During the 1914 - 1918 war he traveled to North Africa and during this time a move into 'abstract forms' began by 1916. In 1917  he returned to the Cote d'Azur area  in the south of France where he painted many pictures in his new style.
Matisse died in 1954 leaving a great quantity of drawings, water-colors and oils in his studio.
Collections of  paintings by Henri Matisse.
The Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. Russia.
Matisse Museum, Nice.
Matisse paintings. The Artchive.
Musee Matisse...
Web Museum, Paris.
Fauvism ( Web Museum, Paris. )
Tate Gallery, London.
Art in Context.
CGFA
Art4net
Henri Matisse paintings.
Henri Matisse Homepage.

Claude Monet. 1840 - 1926
Born in Paris in 1840 he is now  regarded as one of the greatest artist's of the 19th and 20th century. The Impressionists naturally depicted the seasons and weather of Spring, Summer and Winter, painting in the open air outdoors, they became masters of  light and atmospheric effects. He was fascinated with snow scenes and was the first Impressionist to paint the snow "En plein air" and many of the snow pictures were painted in the area around Argenteuil and on the Seine. His love of London especially in winter when fog appears over the river Thames prompted many river paintings. Like Waterloo Bridge, with it's blues and greys and the Houses of Parliament almost reminiscent in appearance to the 'Nocturnes' of Whistler.  Monet's most important  project was the creation of his water garden at his home in Giverny, France. The beautiful garden which is still filled with many types of colourful flowers of nature and the water garden remains a most popular place to visit. His water lilies series of mural paintings which were painted on huge canvasses are greatly loved for their majestic simplicity and colour. He died at the age of 86.
His works are represented in many public and private collections.
Collections of  paintings by Claude Monet.
The Hermitage Museum , St. Petersburg.
Monet paintings, The Artchive.
Monet paintings.
Claude Monet paintings and Links.
Claude Monet at infoeagle.
Web Museum, Paris.
Tate Gallery, London.
National Gallery. London.
Claude Monet at Giverny.
Gardens of sunlight.
Olga's Gallery.

Henry Moore. British Sculptor. 1892 - 1986 H. S. A. A.
Henry Spencer Moore was born July 30th 1898 at Castleford, Yorkshire and is one of the greatest British sculptors of the 20th century. Died on the 31st August 1986 at Perry Green, Hertfordshire.
Following his service in the  first world war he began his studies at the Leeds School of Arts. His sculptures of stone and wood completed in the 1920's - 1930's were mainly influenced by the old art sculptures of Mexico, and during this period he began teaching at the Royal College of Art, London. In 1928 the first main exhibition of his sculptures were at the Warren Gallery, London. Many  successful productive years followed where his fame became known throughout the world following his retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. This exhibition set the seal on his success and in 1951 an exhibition of his works were held by the Tate Gallery, London.
The American Academy honored him by electing him full member in 1961. Another exhibition at the Tate Gallery, London was held in honour of his 70th birthday, and by this time he had become known throughout the world of art. Other important exhibitions followed at regular intervals and on August 31st 1986 at the age of 88 years he died leaving a wealth of sculptures  in stone, wood and other materials as well as numerous paintings and studies. His works are well represented in many public and private collections.
Collections of  works by Henry Moore.
Tate Gallery, London.
Moore paintings. The Artchive. 
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco.
The Israel Museum of Art.

Berthe Morisot, 1841 - 1895..
Born 1841 in Bourges, France. Her family decided to move to Paris and there Berthe and her sister received instruction in painting and drawing techniques. While copying paintings at the Louvre she met the painter Manet and her painting improved from that point in time During their relationship Manet painted Berthe many times and she appears in some of his pictures. As she developed, her style became much lighter in touch with an atmospheric quality. Her scenes of interiors with women and children being her best works in both oils and watercolors. She became a full member of the French Impressionists and exhibited in many of the exhibitions by the great French Impressionists in Paris. Her work remains as a beacon to women painters throughout the world..
Aged only 54 she died in Paris 1895.
Collections of  paintings by Berthe Morisot.
National Gallery of Art, Washington. D. C.
Fine Arts Museums of Sam Francisco.
Morisot paintings. The Artchive.
Web Museum.
Wet Canvas Virtual Museum.
Tate Gallery, London.
Berthe Morisot Impressionist.
CGFA
Olga's Gallery

Pablo Picasso,  Spanish. 1881 - 1973 H. S. A. A.
Born on October 25th 1881 in Malaga, Spain to Maria Picasso, wife of the artist Jose Ruiz. He decided to take his mothers surname as an artist and qualified for the Academy of Fine Arts, Barcelona.  Later he studied at the San Fernando Academy, Madrid. His well known 'Blue period'  spanned the years between 1901 to 1904 when he was painting in Paris. Next came the 'circus' period with it's acrobats and clowns with a complete change of palette. The cubist period after meeting Braque started around 1911 and continued for a few years before entering a time where he designed sets for the theatre in a more classical style. A move into other forms of art including sculpture in wrought iron and other materials started in the early 1920's and continued until the 1930's. During the 2nd world war Picasso remained in Paris and during this time he painted many pictures which dwelt on the theme of death. He met and lived with Fran. Gilot and she gave him two children. The children Claude and Paloma appeared in a number of his paintings in the 40's.  He created many forms of ceramic art during the late 1940's. and it was  into the 1950's when his main interest turned to printing and lithography.
In 1953 he met Jacqueline Roque and in 1961 he married her  and following this marriage, Pablo and Jaqueline decided to leave Paris and moved  to the south of France  His popularity as an artist earned him the nickname 'The showman', with now exhibitions in Europe and America and in the 1960's he created the huge sculpture at the Chicago Civic Centre. An exhibition of his works at the Louvre in 1971 in honour for his 90th birthday was a great success followed in 1980 by an exhibition of his life works at the Museum of Modern Arts, New York..
Following a very active and prolific painting career he died on April 8th in 1973 aged 91 years old.
Represented in many public and private collection throughout the art world.
Collections of  paintings by Pablo Picasso.
Pablo Picasso. Official Web Site.
The Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.
Picasso paintings. The Artchive.
Musee National Picasso. France.
Musee Picasso - Antibes.
Museu Thyssen-Bornemisza, Spain.
On-Line Picasso project.***
Tate Gallery, London.
Art in Context
Moma Collection, New York.

Camille Pissarro. 1830 - 1903
Born 1830 on the Caribbean island of  St. Thomas and at a young age moved to Paris to study painting. He later returned to St. Thomas to run the family business but his heart and future was as a painter. Driven by his passion for painting he returned to Paris in 1855 and during this time met Corot and Manet. In 1860 he became friends with Cézanne and other Impressionists and exhibited a painting at the 'Salon des Refuses'. The small group of Impressionists being short of a place to show their works exhibited at the photographic studio of Nadar and the exhibition proved a success. Pissarro giving advice to young painters said, "Look for the type of scene in nature that  suits your temperament and then the motif should be observed for its shape and colour rather than for its drawing. Try and keep your painting  loose in form, as precise drawing is dry and hampers the impression of the whole and destroys all the sensations. Do not define to closely the outlines of  things as it is the brush stroke of the right value and colour which should produce the drawing. Looked as a mass the greatest difficulty is not to give the contour in detail but to paint what is within. Always paint the essential character of things and try to convey it by any means whatsoever without bothering about technique. When you are painting, make a choice of subject and see what is on the right and the left, then work on everything simultaneously. Don't work bit by bit, but paint everything at once by placing the tones everywhere with brush strokes of the right colour
and  value, while taking notice of what is alongside as this may affect the reflective colour and value.  Use small brush strokes and try to put down your perceptions immediately. Your eyes you should not be fixed by one point, but should take in everything while you are observing the reflections which the other colours produce on their surroundings. Work at the same time upon sky, water, branches and ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis and  unceasingly rework until you have the effect. Cover the canvas with paint at the first go and then  work at it until you can see nothing foliage and other things. Don't be afraid of putting on colour and then refine the work little by little. Don't proceed according to  rules and principles, but paint what you observe and feel. Paint generously and unhesitatingly,  for it is best not to lose your first impression. Never be timid in front of nature as one must be bold  at the risk of being deceived into making mistakes. The artist must have only one master and it is  nature as she is the one always to be consulted."
Pissarro became one of the first great artists of the 19th / 20th century to use pastels as a painting medium in it's own right and his pastels have a strength of colour equal to any other medium. Following a long and successful career painting in
Pastels, Oils and Water-color in 1930, Paris he died age 73 years old.
Collections of  paintings by Camille Pissarro.
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Pissarro paintings. The Artchive.
Web Museum, Paris.
CGFA (Pissarro images.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Tate Gallery, London.

Jackson Pollock, Contemporary American Artist. 1912 - 1956 H. S. A. A.
Born 1912 in Cody, Wyoming, America, and became known as the most important artist of the Abstract Expressionist movement. His main studies in art  at the age of 17 years old was under the painter Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Student's League, New York. And in the early 1930's was influenced by the Mexican Muralist painters Orozco and Rivera.
It was in the late 1940's that his painting started to show the direction in art known as abstract and the 'drip and splash' style  which he would become known throughout the world. He would place huge  canvases  on the floor and then 'drip and splash colours through holes in a paint can suspended above the canvas. His use of knives, sticks and other various items to manipulate and blend the paint together with adding other material such as pieces of broken glass, sand, plaster and any other material to hand to create an 'impasto' of various thickness to achieve the effect he wanted. This type of method became known as 'action' painting, thereby resulting in direct expressionism of the moods of the artist.
Later in his life he would alter the actual shape of the canvas  to one of unusual characteristics later known as the New American Painting style.
Theodore Zimmerman's family retain four drawings of Pollock in their collection.
Jackson Pollock died in an automobile crash in Cody in 1956 only 44 years old but was a giant figure of American
Abstract Expressionism.
Collections of  paintings by Jackson Pollock.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Pollock paintings. The Artchive.
Web Museum, Paris.
Tate Gallery, London.

Pierre Auguste Renoir. 1841 - 1919
Born 1841 the son of a tailor in Limoges, France. When he was only 4 years old his family decided to move to Paris. When Pierre became 13 he was apprenticed to a painter in a factory which made and decorated china-ware. Here he was trained to paint in the 18th century style. To earn extra money he sold copies of  18th century paintings which he copied in the Louvre, Paris and also attended classes in the evenings to try to improve his painting technique. When he was  21 he joined the studio of Gleyre where he became aquatinted with other artists and became friends with Claude Monet and Alfred Sisley. His painting was interrupted by the onset of the war  between France and Prussia and during this time only a few paintings were completed. After the was over, his paintings began to become much richer in colour, mainly due to his friendship and involvement with the Impressionists.  The majority of the Impressionists were involved with painting nature and landscapes, but Renoir chose to include figures and people in his pictures and his style began to progress and develop as he began to include children as the main subject with a garden or landscape background. The children in his paintings appear to be aware of their importance within the picture and his skill of portraying the young child in a floral background proved very popular with his clients.
He painted right up to the day he died even though he had extreme difficulty holding his brushes due to a long and painful  illness. He became one of the most important of the French Impressionists and his paintings are enjoyed by many art lovers throughout the world.
Died 1919
Collections of  paintings by Pierre Auguste Renoir.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Renoir paintings. The Artchive.
Web Museum, Paris.
Tate Gallery, London.
Auguste Renoir Gallery Biography.
Gardens of sunlight

Mark Rothko. Russian Emigrate U. S. A.  1913 - 1971 H. S. A. A.
Born on the 25th September 1903 as Marcus Rothkowitz and in 1913 emigrates with his family to the United States when he was 10 years old. His interest in painting started at an early age with tentative attempts at various styles as he slowly but surely made his way as a up and coming artist in America. In 1921 studied at Yale University, Connecticut and then in 1924 attended the Art Students League, New York. He became friends with the artist Max Weber and his painting started to develop and mature and his first solo exhibition at the Museum of Art, Portland and at the Contemporary Arts Gallery, New York. It was in 1940 that he decided to change his name to Mark Rothko, the name he used for the rest of his painters life. Following further solo and joint exhibitions of his works he received a commission from Harvard to paint murals at the Holyoke Centre. This was followed in 1961 by an important retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Mark Rothko was a monumental painter of monumental canvasses and the art establishment and general public lost a great artist when he died on the 25th August, 1971.
Collections of  paintings by Mark Rothko.
National Gallery of Art, Washington. D. C.
Rothko paintings. The Artchive.
San Francisco Museum of modern art.
Mark Rothko at NGA.
Mark Rothko Exhibition.
Tate Gallery Rothko Collection.

Georges Seurat ( French ) 1859 - 1891
Collections of  paintings by Georges Seurat.
Tate Gallery, London.
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Musée d'Orsay, France.
National Gallery, London.
Artchive.
Web Museum, Paris.
The Art Canvas.
Art On Line ( Italian )
Wet Canvas Virtual Museum.
Detroit Institute of Art, Michigan.
Web Museum, Paris. France. ( La Grande Jatte. )

Alfred Sisley. 1839 - 1899.....
Born in Paris on the 30th October 1839.
Sisley's father was an English merchant trader who wanted his son to enter the business when he left school. However,  his interest in Impressionism started to influence his style of painting and he joined the main group of Impressionists working in Paris at the time. Paintings of landscapes around Paris were completed at Argenteuil, Bougival and Louveciennes with  the sky being the major part of the painting. Due recognition of his talents as a painter was rather late in arriving and now  is fully accepted as on of the major Impressionists of the 19th century. He died of throat and mouth cancer on January 29th 1899 at Moret-sur-Loing.
Collections of  paintings by Alfred Sisley.
National Gallery of Art, Washington. D. C.
Sisley paintings. The Artchive.
Web Museum, Paris.
Tate Gallery, London.
CGFA
Olga's Gallery

Antoni Tapies. Spanish Modern Artist. B. 1923 H. S. A. A.
Born on the 13th December 1923 in Barcelona, Spain. It was in 1944 he studied law and later painting at the Academia Valls, Barcelona. Held his first exhibition at the Galleries Laietanes, and in 1952 sent exhibits to the Venice Biennale and  in 1953 made his name as a painter at the Martha Jackson Galleries, New York. Retrospective exhibitions of Tapies works in 1962 were at the Soloman Guggenheim Museum,  New York and then the  Kunsthaus in Zurich. Other retrospective exhibitions in Paris, Vienna and at the Museo Espanol de Arte Contemporaneo, Madrid were a great success in the 1970's. In 1981 he was awarded the Medalla de Oro de Bellas
Arte by King Juan Carlos I in Madrid, Spain In 1984 the Fundacion for Antoni Tapies, Barcelona was created and became a landmark for the painter as he began a period of European and far eastern travels. It was in 1988 he was honoured by the title of Commandeur de Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by France and in 1990 he accepted an award of  the Praemium Imperiale by the Art Association  of Japan. His painting at the Venice Biennale was awarded a major prize in 1993 followed by other retrospective exhibitions in later years by a successful and great Spanish artist of the 20th Century. Now at the age of  77 years old he is still painting and lives at his home in the Catalonia hills,  Spain.
Collections of  paintings by Antoni Tapies.
Tapies paintings. The Artchive.
Antoni Tapies Foundation.
Tate Gallery, London.

Joseph Mallard William Turner, R. A. 1775 - 1851
English landscape painter.  Born on the 23rd April 1775 and died 1851
Royal Academician.
A short biography of his life will be given soon
Collections of  paintings by J. M. W. Turner.
Tate Gallery, London.
Turner paintings. The Artchive.
WebMuseum, Paris.
Ruskin Exhibition.
National Gallery, London.
Olga's Gallery.