Country Life

Traditional Amish farm building

Sent by Sheila on 15 Jun, 2016  - Harford, Connecticut

Ohio's Amish Country

The Milk Hack is use by farmers living close enough the cheese house to take their milk to be processed into cheese. In Holmes county the Amish farmers' main income is from the dairy herd.

Sent by Caryl on Jan 10, 2020 from North Caroline

 

Mail today

Received on 30 Jan, 2020 

Part 1.

Lisbon, Portugal

Sent by Arminda in Lisbon 

Doors of Brandenburg an der Havel

Sent by Burkhard in Brandenburg, Germany

Merry Christmas from Lithuania

Sent by Aurelija in Kretinga, Lithuania

Sent by Gabriela in Istanbul, Turkey

Taking a little break ♥

Landscapes

Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840)

Meadows near Greifswald circa 1821-1822

Sent by Hanna in Ingolstadt, Germany

on 20 Apr, 2014

travel time 8 days

distance travelled 1,681 km

Claude Monet (1840-1926)

The Bridge at Bougival, 1869

Currier Museum of art, Manchester, New Hampshire

Sent by Marianne in Lemgo, Germany

 on 30 Jul, 2019

travel time 6 days

distance travelled 1,415 km

Thomas Kinkade (1958-2012) California, U.S.A.

Sent by Esin in Istanbul, Turkey

on 11 Sep, 2014

travel time 13 days

distance travelled 2,425 km

William Thomas Kinkade III  was an American painter of popular realistic, pastoral, and idyllic subjects. He is notable for his success, during his lifetime, with the mass marketing of his work as printed reproductions and other licensed products via the Thomas Kinkade Company. According to Kinkade's company, one in every twenty American homes owns a copy of one of his paintings.

Leda, glassy and standing nudes

Salvador Dali

Leda Atomica 1949

Teatre-Museu Dalí, Figueres, Spain

 The picture depicts Leda, the mythological queen of Sparta, with the swan. Leda is a frontal portrait of Dalí's wife, Gala, who is seated on a pedestal with a swan suspended behind and to her left.

Erich Heckel, Glassy Day, 1913

Modern art Gallery, Mûnchen, Germany 

Erich Heckel (1883 –  1970) was a German painter and printmaker, and a founding member of the group Die Brücke ("The Bridge") which existed 1905-1913.

Joan Miro 

Standing Nude, 1921

New York , Perls Galleries, U.S.A.

Joan Miró i Ferrà ( 1893 – 1983) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his native city of Barcelona in 1975, and another, the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, was established in his adoptive city of Palma de Mallorca in 1981.

Mountains

Nikolai Roerich (1874-1947) Russia / U.S.A. 

Red Horses 1925

Sent by Vera in Šiauliai, Lithuania

on 6 Feb, 2016

travel time 9 days

distance travelled 754 km

Wladimir Goichman (1903 Odessa–2001 Turku Finland) 

The Diamonds Palace (Quiet Bay Hooker Island. Franz Josef Land) 1934

Wladimir Goichman (1903 Odessa - 2001 Turku) was a Soviet Neurosurgeon, explorer and painter. He has lived in Finland since 1972 until his death. During World War II, Goichman worked as a brain surgeon in the Soviet Union. He participated in several Arctic explorations, and his paintings featuring Arctic landscapes have been featured in numerous art exhibitions and museums.

Hooker Island is one of the central islands of Franz Josef Land. It is located in the central area of ​​the archipelago. It is administered by the Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia.

  Wladimir Goichman (1903 Odessa–2001 Turku Finland) 

A cold breath of Arctic 1982

Hans Lerch

Steinernes meer- Rocky Sea

Sent by Holger in Berlin, Germany

 on 21 Dec, 2013

travel time 9 days

distance travelled 1,246 km

Paul Cezanne ( 1836-1906)

Lac d'Annecy, 1896

Sent by Lærke in Swindon, England

 on 11 Jul, 2014

travel time 4 days

distance travelled 1,888 km

Baroque art

Peter Paul Rubens

Statue of Ceres.  1615

State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia 

Josef Heinz: The Adoration of Shepherds, before, 1600

 National Gallery in Prague

Joseph Heintz the Elder (1564, Basel – 1609, Prague) was a prominent artist and court painter of Emperor Rudolph II in Prague but he also made a name for himself in Augsburg, Germany.

Cecco del Caravaggio 

Christ falls on the road to Calvary 1610

Slovakia National Gallery

Cecco del Caravaggio (active c. 1610 – mid-1620s and born around 1588/) is the notname given to a painter who worked in Rome in the early decades of the 17th century.  Little is known about Cecco del Caravaggio,  but he  presumably is to be identified with the painter Francesco Boneri and who received his name from the close relation with Caravaggio.

I bought these postcards from a flea market in Tallinn, Estonia

Belarusian art

Minsk, Town Hall Square 

Art by Roman Fedosenko

Sent by Veronika in Hrodna, Belarus

on 9 Jun, 2014

travel time 35 days

distance travelled 999 km

Marc Chagall, Belarusian born artist

My collection

Marc Zakharovich Chagall (1887 –  1985) was a Russian-French artist of Belarusian Jewish origin. 

Before World War I, he travelled between Saint Petersburg, Paris, and Berlin. During this period he created his own mixture and style of modern art based on his idea of Eastern European Jewish folk culture. He spent the wartime years in Soviet Belarus, becoming one of the country's most distinguished artists and a member of the modernist avant-garde, founding the Vitebsk Arts College before leaving again for Paris in 1922.

Frida

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls

“Once there was a Mexican girl whose name was Frida” 

Portrait of Frida Kahlo (July 6, 1907 - July 13, 1954) Mexico

Illustration Helena Morais Soares, Portugal

Sent by Sofia in Porto

on 9 Dec, 2019

travel time 26 days

distance travelled 3,124 km

Austrian art

Little Girls. Egon Schiele (1890-1918) Austria

My collection

Egon Schiele was an Austrian painter.  Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century. His work is noted for its intensity and its raw sexuality, and many self-portraits the artist produced, including naked self-portraits. The twisted body shapes and the expressive line that characterize Schiele's paintings and drawings mark the artist as an early exponent of Expressionism.

Christmas Tree Market at Bad Ischl

Ernst Karl Willi (1921 Wien - 1999 Bad Ischl), Austria 

Finnish Art

 Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865-1931)

 Mother and child, 1887

Mother with a child painted in an artist's room in Paris, on a background of a Finnish rug from Keuruu.

Albert Edelfelt  (1854–1905)

Old ladies at Ruokolahti Church.

Women outside the Church at Ruokolahti, 

Women of Ruokolahti on the Church Hill, 1887

Helene Schjerfbeck (1862 - 1946)

 Museum Visit. late in the 1800s.
 Ostrobothnian Museum, Vaasa, Finland