Anna Richards Brewster | Impressionist painter

American painter Anna Richards Brewster (1870-1952) was among the most successful international women artists of her time, yet her name has largely been forgotten.

Recent decades have seen a slight revival of interest in her work, including a solo exhibition at the Newport Art Museum in 1985, and a major solo exhibition in 2008 which traveled between the Hudson River Museum, Butler Institute of American Art and the Fresno Metropolitan Museum.

Edgar Lee Masters (1868-1950) | Silence / Il silenzio

Lucien Lévy Dhurmer (French Art Nouveau painter, 1865-1953) | Le Silence, 1895 | Musée d’Orsay, Paris

I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea,

And the silence of the city when it pauses,

And the silence of a man and a maid,

And the silence for which music alone finds the word,

And the silence of the woods before the winds of spring begin,

And the silence of the sick

When their eyes roam about the room.

Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer | Le Silence, 1895 | Musée d'Orsay

"Le Silence", a picture that Levy-Dhurmer🎨 kept throughout his life, is without doubt one of his most fascinating works.

It has the suggestive power of an icon, an image that is all the more compelling for being presented as an enigma: fixed in a hieratic pose, with eyes hidden in shadow, the figure eludes all explanation.

Solid and immobile, it keeps what we imagine to be the secret of its mourning to itself.

The long, falling folds, enhanced by the vertical format, cannot but evoke both physical gravity (from which it is impossible to escape) and moral gravity.

Robert Lee Berran (1923-2020)

Robert Lee Berran è nato a Mt. Vernon, NY, il 24 dicembre 1923 ed è cresciuto a Scarsdale, NY. Tra i 19-22 anni prestò servizio come medico durante la seconda guerra mondiale sotto il terzo esercito del generale Patton in Europa.

Dopo la guerra ha studiato alla Art Students League di New York dal 1947-1950.

Dopo aver lasciato l'Art Students League, ha dipinto i poster dei film per la 20th Century Fox.

Quattro anni dopo è entrato a far parte del gruppo degli illustratori, dove gli artisti provenivano prevalentemente dalla Haddon Sundbloom School of Painting.

Il suo lavoro presso il Gruppo Illustratori era per clienti prestigiosi come Ford e Coca-Cola. Successivamente Bob ha illustrato per gli Avventisti del Settimo Giorno per la loro serie di libri per bambini "I miei amici biblici" che sono ancora popolari oggi.

Rabindranath Tagore | Al risveglio

Govanni Boldini🎨 | La lettera mattutina

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Al risveglio ho trovato

con la luce una lettera.

Ma non posso sapere

che dice: non so leggere.

E non voglio distrarre

un sapiente dai libri:

ciò che c’è scritto forse

non lo saprebbe leggere.

I woke and found his letter with the morning.

I do not know what it says, for I cannot read.

I shall leave the wise man alone with his books,

I shall not trouble him, for who knows if he can read what the letter says.

Cesar Pattein | Il grano, 1891

Son of a farmer, César Pattein (1850-1931) painted scenes of rustic life focusing on the happy times of the day with children laughing, playing and forgetting the toils of the hard day’s work.

Born in Steenvoorde, in northern France, César Pattein was raised among farmers and maintained a close connection to the rural region throughout his life.

He seldom traveled much further than Lille, with the occasional journey to Paris when exhibiting at the Salon.

While he experimented in his early career with portraiture and historical and religious subjects, Pattein was apt to represent agrarian traditions and rustic rituals, particularly those involving the harvest or other celebrations of agrarian abundance; this eventually led him to the atelier of Jules Breton in the mid-1880s.

Yigal Ozeri, 1958 | Photorealist painter

New York City based Israeli artist Yigal Ozeri is best known for his large-scale cinematic portraits of distinctive young women in rich prodigious landscapes.

With tinges of Pre-Raphaelite aesthetics, Ozeri brings an ethereal and uninhibited sensibility to his paintings.

His portraits denote art historical foundations in romanticism, while also offering contemporary notions of sensual femininity.