sunnuntai 7. huhtikuuta 2019

Sunday bike ride

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Dutch Crown Bicycles
sent by Rosie from Canberra

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Kynoch Cycles Poster, 1923
A Ride In The Countryside
Unknown designers
sent by Elsa from Coimbra

BE-548878
The revenge or country guard
travel time 15 days
distance travelled 1,695 km
sent by Martine, Belgium

lauantai 6. huhtikuuta 2019

Cherry Blossoms, Washington D.C.

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The Cherry Blossoms and Jefferson Memorial
 travel time 13 days
distance travelled 6,648 km 
sent by Jan,  Washington D.C.

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Japanese cherry trees planted along the Potomac River, Washington D.C.
travel time 13 days
distance travelled 6,467 km
sent by Anastasia, Marlton, New Jersey

Wishing you all a sunny weekend!

perjantai 5. huhtikuuta 2019

Elisabeth Boehm

Hungry boy.

"Bread and salt to eat, listen to our speech"

Ivan but not the Terrible!
 Elisaveta Merkuryevna Bem or Boehm or Böhm  1843–1914)[was a Russian painter, a popular designer of postcards.


 These cute postcards came from Belarus sent by Olga from Gorodok

torstai 4. huhtikuuta 2019

Still Life Art

 Still Life with Apples" 1893–1894
 Paul Cezanne ( 1839 - 1906)
My Cezanne collection


 Still Life With Tablecloth. 1899
Paul Cézanne
My Cezanne collection


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Still Life with gilt Goblet, 1635
Willem Claesz Heda ( 1594- 1680)  
travel time 6 days
distance travelled 1,514 km
sent by Kim from Heemskerk

Willem Claeszoon Heda (1593/1594 – c. 1680/1682) was a Dutch Golden Age artist from the city of Haarlem devoted exclusively to the painting of still lifes. He is known for his innovation of the late breakfast genre of still life painting.

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"Stillleben mit Stechpalme und Mistelzweig"
Eloise Harriet Stannard (1829-1915) 
travel time 3 days
distance travelled 1,912 km
sent by Angelina from Zûrich

Eloise Harriet Stannard (1829–1915) was a British 19th century painter known for her still life work. She was one of only two notable women artists associated with the Norwich School of painters, Britain's first provincial art movement.


keskiviikko 3. huhtikuuta 2019

American art

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American Impressionism
Note in Red: The Siesta 1884. James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903).
travel time 21 days
distance travelled 6,595 km
Sent by Marc, Detroit, Michigan


 Jackson Pollock, ( 1912- 1956), Pasiphae (1943)
abstract expressionism
my collection


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Mark Rothko: Vernal Memory, No. 12, 1946
abstract art
travel time 13 days
distance travelled 131 km
sent by Iiris, Tampere

tiistai 2. huhtikuuta 2019

Cat Art

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Two kittens in basket.
Artist Julius Anton Adam, known as "Cats Adam"  (1852-1913) Germany
travel time 34 days
distance travelled 6,784 km
sent by Vera in Korsakov, Sakhalin Island

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Louis Wain (1860-1939) "A head study of a tabby cat"
travel time 15 days
distance travelled 1,865 km
sent by Thorsten, Hartheim am Rhein



maanantai 1. huhtikuuta 2019

Reading and Writing

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The Sisters.(1839) Margaret Sarah Carpenter (nee Geddes) (1793-1872)  British artist
travel time 3 days
distance travelled 1,596 km
sent by Carla, Cologne

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"Young Girl Reading" 1776. Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806) DE-785621
travel time 5 days
distance travelled 1,237 km
sent by Karen, Berlin

Lady Writing. c. 1665-70. Jan Vermeer
Direct swap from Cherry, China

Alexander Mann (1853-1908) Portrait of Helen Gow 
Direct swap from  Mandy, Germany

 Carl Holsoe (1863-1935) Woman reading in an interior
Direct swap from Mandy, Germany

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 Just a Couple of Girls - Harry Wilson Watrous
travel time 6 days
distance travelled 1,520 km
sent by Anne, Essen

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Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoy 1863.  Sophia Kramskaya Reading
travel time 14 days
distance travelled 517 km
sent by Nikolay,  St. Petersburg