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Oyster picker.1880.  Art by Aukusti Uotila, Finnish artist

Sent by Päivi on 4 Oct, 2020 from Lahti, Finland

Strawberry Girl 1782

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Art by Nils Schillmark (1745–1804) Swedish painter lived in Finland 

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Summer yard

Art by Veikko Vienoja 

Veikko Vionoja ( 1909 - 2001) was a Finnish painter. Vionoja studied at the Finnish Art Association's School of Drawingl

Sent by Päivi on 19 Jan, 1986 from Helsinki, Finland

Unikko / The Poppy 1896. Hugo Simberg (1873 -1917 ) Finnish painter

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 Girls Pushing a Boat 1925,  Art by Pekka Halonen (1865-1933)

Sent by Maija on 27 Apr, 2022 from Siilinjärvi, Finland

 

Musical Children

The Fifer 1866

Édouard Manet (1832 – 1883) was a French painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, and a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism.

Girls at the Piano, 1892

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, commonly known as Auguste Renoir (1841 – 1919), was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty, and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau.

The Violinist, 1900

Pekka Halonen (1865 – 1933) was a painter of Finnish landscapes and people in the national romantic style. His favorite subjects were the Finnish landscape and its people which he depicted in his realist style

Washing Day

Pekka Halonen 1865-1933

Washerwomen

Pekka Halonen is one of the most notable artists of Finland’s Golden Age, who achieved his goal of gaining international recognition for traditional Finnish national artwork.

More Pekka Halonen's art here



From Rudolf Koivu's collection



From the collection of Croft House Tales

Photo: Ingela Nyman

On laundry day, fires burned under the laundry pots and the banging of washing bats filled the air. Clothes were rubbed against washing boards, boiled in lye water and then finaly rinsed in a river or lake.  Grandma's laundry bucket in Western Finland.