Childe Hassam

Childe Hassam's The New York Window, 1912 oil on canvas
I love his portraits of women.

Recent/Current Reads

James Tissot: Victorian Life/Modern Love

Dante Gabriel Rossetti


The Troubled Republic: Visual Culture and Social Debate in France, 1889-1900

Pierre Bonnard

Pierre Bonnard's La partie de croquet, 1892

Felix Vallotton #2

Félix Vallotton, Le Mensonge
Everything Vallotton can be found in the video below, but I just want to highlight this example of his work. I love how the lower two-thirds is almost entirely black, with simple, suggestive lines.

Felix Vallotton

Félix Vallotton (1864-1925)--I love his interiors (painting and printmaking) and portraits, not so big on landscapes in general.
Wouldn't it be great if every artist I liked had one of these?

Ecole de Nancy

1900s Nancy School architectural style

Nancy, France --I can't believe it still: I was there.

Gustave Caillebotte

Gustave Caillebotte's Rooftops Under Snow, 1878

More 1880s Fashion Plates

1880s French Fashion Plates

Autochrome

Auguste or Louis Lumière, Trois petites-filles d'Antoine Lumière dans les vignes de leur grand-père à La Ciotat, c. 1908

Mad Men

Lately, before bed = Mad Men marathon;
I can't wait for the third series.

James Tissot

James Tissot, The Thames, c. 1867

Emile Friant

Emile Friant, Jeune nancéienne dans un paysage de neige, 1887

(best image I could find, wish it were much larger)

Portrait d'une négresse

Marie-Guillemine Benoist, Portrait d'une négresse, 1800

Read art historian and professor James Smalls' "Slavery is a Woman," it is brilliant.

19th c. Parisian/French visual culture

The types of questions asked and topics discussed in this book are my intended course of study.

Maurice Denis

Maurice Denis' Le menuet de la Princesse Maleine, 1891
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Velocipedes

From Harper's Weekly. New York, December 19, 1868

1880s Fashion Plate

"Natural Form" Gowns, French Fashion Plate, 1882

Les Bouquinistes

Along the Seine, in Paris, of course.

Map

Fruit trees of France, agriculture map.
Mid-to-late 19th century, Maison Deyrolle, Paris.
(I want everything in their pedagogical board/poster section; I'll pass on the taxidermy).

Kelmscott Press

William Morris/Kelmscott Press, Chaucer, 1896
Described as a "pocket cathedral" by artist Edward Burne-Jones
(remains my favorite all-time description of a work of art)

Wong Kar-wai

Still, Wong Kar-Wai, In the Mood for Love, 2000