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torstai 20. maaliskuuta 2025

Edward John Poynter

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In a Garden
Art by Edward John Poynter
Sernt by Lucas from Germany


Edward John Poynter oli englantilainen taidemaalari. Poynter oli arkkitehti Ambrose Poynterin poika. Hän opiskeli Ipswichin koulussa ja Brighton Collegessa ennen kuin siirtyi Lontooseen. Poynter ihaili Michelangeloa ja hänet tunnetaan parhaiten historiaan liittyvistä maalauksistaan. Wikipedia

Syntyi: 20. maaliskuuta 1836, Pariisi, Ranska
Kuoli: 26. heinäkuuta 1919, Lontoo, Yhdistynyt kuningaskunta


 

torstai 16. tammikuuta 2025

Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson



Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson oli englantilainen näyttelijä ja teatterijohtaja sekä näyttelijä Gertrude Elliottin aviomies. Wikipedia (englanti)

Syntyi: 16. tammikuuta 1853, Englanti, Yhdistynyt kuningaskunta

Kuoli: 6. marraskuuta 1937, Dover, Yhdistynyt Kuningaskunta




lauantai 24. elokuuta 2024

Women in Art

Mathew Smith (1879-1959 ) 
Vera With Flowers  c. 1923-1925 
coll. Corporation of London
Facebook Postcard swap  Finnish
Sent by Ari from Tuusula, Finland

 

perjantai 15. syyskuuta 2023

Flower Friday - Summer Memories

Roses by Aila Utriainen, Finnish illustrator


Roses and Butterflies By Marjolein Bastin 



 Golden Hair and Bowder Blue  art by Hector Caffieri, British


Garderner at work. Illustration Kristiina Haapalainen & Sami Vähä-Aho, Finnish


Garden Party 

 

keskiviikko 23. elokuuta 2023

Portraits

Portrait of Adrian Stevens, 1629. Art by Anthony van Dyck ( 1599- 1641) Flanders, Belgium

Portrait of a Lady Wearing Pearls. Art by Justus Sustermans (1957-1681) Flanders

Lady Hamilton as "Nature"
George Romey, British artist
The Feick Collection, New Yoek 






 

tiistai 5. huhtikuuta 2022

Women and children in art

 

Heinrich Vogeler (1872-1942) Woman in White. 1907 DE-8409175
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Woman in White, 1907
Heinrich Vogeler (1872-1942) German painter 


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The Princess and a Frog, 1894
William Roert Symomds (1851-1934) English painter



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Auf der grünen Bank -On the green bench, 1911
Edward Cucuel (1879-1951) American painter


lauantai 27. marraskuuta 2021

Women in art





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L'Arlésienne  (Madame Ginoux), 1888.  
Art by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Received on 4 Mar, 2021
Sent by Gerard ( Stadskanaal, The Netherlands)



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La velata, or La donna velata ("The woman with the veil") c. 1516.  
 Art by the Italian Renaissance painter Raphael (1483-1520) Palatine Gallery, Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Italy

Received on 24 Feb, 2021
Sent by Maike ( Bremen, Germany)


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 Portrait of Madame Boucard. 1931. 
Art by Tamara de Lempicka (1898- 1980 )  Polish painter

Receives on 20 Mar, 2021
 Sent by Maria (Karlsruhe, Germany )


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Boreas 1903
Art by William Waterhouse (1849-1917 ) English painter 

Receives on 25 Mar, 2021
Sent by Keshia (Everett, Washington )
 

keskiviikko 23. syyskuuta 2020

Mailbox Today

Verboot Rottum
sent by Rineke in Barneveld, The Netherlands 
on 16 Sep, 2020
travel time 7 days
distance travelled 1,520 km



 Dutch Front Doors

sent by Nienke in Almere Stad, The Netherlands
on 16 Sep, 2020
travel time 7 days
distance travelled 1,513 


Illustration von "Ich bleibe immer bei dir" von Sjoerd Kuijper
Illustration by Marit Törmqvist

sent by Xaphy in Bilthoven, The Netherlands
 on 17 Sep, 2020
travel time 6 days
distance travelled 1,535 km


Facebook swap "Illustrated birds"
"The Cornet" by David Hurrel
Sent by Päivi in Lahti, Finland 


Silver fir - Abies alba

sent by Hartmut in  Hennigsdorf, Germany
on 15 Sep, 2020
travel time 8 days
distance travelled 1,230 km



maanantai 25. toukokuuta 2020

Mail today

Where's Waldo? The Great Picture Hunt!  
Illustration Martin Handford (English)


Sent by Grayson, Age 4. Kansas USA
 on 24 Mar, 2020
travel time 62 days
distance travelled 7,519 km




Great Barrier Reef, QLD, Australia 

Sent by Amanda in  Mount Tarampa, Queensland, Australia
on on 29 Mar, 2020
travel time 57 days
distance travelled 14,721 km




torstai 30. huhtikuuta 2020

April virtual art tour day 30.

Since all museums are closed I decided to start a virtual art tour  ♥ welcome, and enjoy  today's tour with Alfred, Carl and Vincent ♥ 

Flower time

Orchard in Spring, 1881.
Alfred Sisley ( British/ French 1839- 1899)
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands


Atsalea, 1906
Carl Larsson ( Swedish 1853- 1919)
The Thiel Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden


Still Life with Roses and Sunflowers, 1886
 Vincent van Gogh ( Dutch 1853-1890)
 Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany


 Greeting from Paris and Louvre
Paris, Louvre 2012 - Martin Parr
 sent by my sister on 16 Jul, 2028

Louvre, Paris

Thank you for following this virtual art tour, hopefully we can soon visit museums in reality.

maanantai 13. huhtikuuta 2020

April virtual art tour day 13.

Since all museums are closed I decided to start a virtual art tour  ♥ welcome, and enjoy  today's tour with Alice, Jörg and Unknown artist  ♥

Alice Pattullo ( British illustrator)
Birdcage. 2013
From Animal Box: 100 postcards by 10 Artists.

Sent by Lexi in Loveland, U.S.A.
on 2 Nov, 2019
travel time 45 days
distance travelled 7,625 km
 received on 17 Dec, 2019


Jörg Block( Graphic illustrator, German ) 
Owl 
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Sent by Nell in Reuver, Netherlands
on 8 Jan, 2020
travel time 5 days
distance travelled 1,583 km
received on 13 Jan, 2020 


Unknown artist
"BirdLife" old school board from Netherlands

Sent by Bianca in Zwaag, Netherlands
 on 12 Sep, 2017
travel time 9 days
distance travelled 1,491 km
received on 22 Sep, 2017 

Happy and Easter
Illustration Marjolein Bastin

keskiviikko 5. helmikuuta 2020

Alice

Alice in Wonderland by Charles Folkard. The Mad Hatter's tea party 1921
Artwork from the book All Things Alice edited by Linda Sunshine.

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Sent by Valentina in Beveren, Flanders
on 14 Mar, 2015
travel time 5 days
distance travelled 1,646 km

sunnuntai 8. joulukuuta 2019

Christmas for birds


Winter delicacy! 
Bullfinches, Great tits and Yellowhammers.
Illustration Salli Parikka

Sent by my friend in 2000



Red Robin. Illustration Sarah Adams. U.K.

Sent by Lucas in Ghent, Belgium
 on 5 Dec, 2017
travel time 13 days
distance travelled 1,692 km




lauantai 1. kesäkuuta 2019

Flower Art

From the Garden. Flowers and Birds, 1853-1854
 Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Ferdinand von Wright (1822-1906)


Ferdinand von Wright was a Finnish-Swedish painter. He is best known for his landscapes and animal paintings, especially his detailed depictions of birds, but he also created still-lifes and portraits. 



The Garden at Haikko 1887
Private collection
Albert Edelfelt (1854-1905)

Albert Gustaf Aristides Edelfelt was a Finnish painter. In 1882 Albert Edelfelt built a small studio in Haikko (Porvoo). It was here that he painted many of his most important works.


 Still Life with Flowers. Detail
Kadriorg  Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
Gasparo Lopez (ca 1640-1679)

Gasparo Lopez  was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born at Naples and was an excellent painter of flowers, and therefore called Gasparo dei Fiori. 

Morning Breeze
Timothy Easton UK (1943-) 

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travel time 5 days
distance travelled 1,230 km
sent by Kristen in Hamburg



Watercolor by Helen Dealtry

Helen Dealtry is known best for her distinct hand-painted floral designs, Helen has worked with some of the leading names in the fashion and interiors industry.

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travel time 11 days
distance travelled 1,515 km
sent by Lilly, Germany



tiistai 23. huhtikuuta 2019

Street views

Cafe Terrace at Night. 1888
Vincent van Gogh ( 1853 –  1890)
 Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, Netherlands.

Van Gogh painted Café Terrace at Night in Arles, France, in mid-September 1888. 

Vincent Willem van Gogh  was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life. They include landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits, and are characterised by bold colours and dramatic, impulsive and expressive brushwork that contributed to the foundations of modern art. 


 Cafe Street. 
Richard MacNeil (1958)

Richard Macneil is a self taught artist who has always worked in the creative industry. ceramics and graphics both in the UK and internationally.


Minsk, Town Hall Square,
 Roman Fedosenko (1970)

Russian figurative / impressionist painter, lives and works in Minsk Belarus.

perjantai 12. huhtikuuta 2019

Music

A Concert 1887
Otto Haslund (1842-1917) 
My collection

Otto Haslund was a Danish painter. 
He is remembered in particular for his paintings of animals and children.


  Bo Diddley, 1963
Sir Peter Thomas Blake (1932 )
My collection

Peter Blake is a contemporary British artist known for his association with the Pop Art movement. He is perhaps best known for creating the album cover for The Beatles’s Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1967. In 2002 he was knighted at Buckingham Palace for his services to art.






The troubadour (1954)
Juan Ismael (1907-1981) Fuerteventura- Gran Canaria
Museum of Contemporary Art Eduardo Westerdahl (Macew) collection
Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife


Museum of Contemporary Art on the left.