A jagged, rushing waterfall fills this canvas. Its stark white forms, heavy black outlines, and bold rust surroundings evoke the severity and ruggedness of the Maine landscape. Marsden Hartley lived with the Mason family in Nova Scotia when, in , two of the grown sons and their cousin drowned in a boating accident. Hartley channeled his grief into a series of brooding landscapes and seascapes, one of which is this painting. View object. This elegantly formed vase is striking for its copper-red color, a particularly difficult glaze color to achieve due to the imprecise nature of firing in the kilns.
This vase successfully exhibits the fine color gradations that are lighter at the top and progressively darker toward the bottom. This deep-red glaze is commonly known in Western literature by the French term sang-de-boeuf ox blood. The vase was likely made during the Jiaqing period in the late 18th or early 19th century, even though it does not bear an imperial reign mark.
Although evocative of the natural world, this painting represents a fantasy of the picturesque. Doves fly in and out of the dovecote while a man and child watch from a rickety bridge. The blue-green color and benign decay of the various structures present a romantic notion of the outdoors, reflecting contemporary ideas about nature. Pietro Calvi, Italian, β; Othello , c. May, Bequest of Edith J.
Theo Haimann, all by exchange a,b. The portrait captures the moment when Othello tragically realizes the innocence of his wife, Desdemona, whom he has killed out of jealousy. Kuhn and Stella Kuhn Rising out of the water, a triton a merman-like sea creature supports an irregularly shaped receptacle on his head and steadies it with his left hand. This silver cup captures the elegance and exotic appearance of the nautilus shell which had become increasingly available to Europeans through trade in the 16th century.
Partial gilding, called parcel gilding, further enhances its sumptuous beauty and luxurious appearance. While collectors owned examples of actual shells, this was an age that also appreciated the artificial reproduction of natural forms.
