Dose of Art #181: Edward Hopper – Gas (1940)
The descriptions of The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) where you can see this painting says it all: This work […]
American Art
Dose of Art #178: Severin Roesen – Still Life with Fruit (not dated – the 19th century)
Roesen was born in Germany in 1816 and moved to the United States in 1848. He painted over 300 paintings, […]
Dose of Art #150: Winslow Homer – The Gulf Stream (1899-1900)
When asked what the painting was about Homer replied: “I regret very much that I have painted a picture that […]
Dose of Art #106: Grant Wood – American Gothic (1930)
Definitely an iconic image of rural life, but critics interpreted it in various ways. According to Wikipedia: “Iowans were furious […]
Dose of Art #104: Winslow Homer – The Fog Warning (1875)
The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has the perfect description: “The Fog Warning is a painting with a narrative, though […]
Dose of Art #83: Grant Wood – The Birthplace of Herbert Hoover (1931)
Wood belonged to the American Regionalist movement, which focused on the human condition and the values of a rural environment […]
Dose of Art #66: Thomas Hart Benton – Steel (c. 1930-1931)
To be honest, I had never heard of the American painter Thomas Hart Benton. I came across his work by […]
Dose of Art #35: John Singleton Copley – Watson and the Shark (1778)
A scene of an event that happened almost 30 years before Copley painted it. Brook Watson was a 14-year-old orphan […]
Daily Dose of Art #11: Thomas Cole – Destruction (1836)
This is the third painting of a series of four about the life cycle of empires. Cole was inspired by […]
Daily Dose of Art #1: Edward Hopper – Nighthawks (1942)
Widely considered Hopper’s most famous work, and one of the most recognizable paintings in American art.