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@dave.feediverse.orgOct 10, 2026, 10:10 AM

Diego Rivera, Self Portrait, 1930 #americanart #diegorivera.

@art.feediverse.orgOct 10, 2026, 10:00 AM

Diego Rivera, Self Portrait, 1930 #americanart #diegorivera

@lronlacy.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 7:07 AM

#AUTUMN #Taos
‘Passing By’ E. Martin Hennings (1886-1956). Oil on canvas. 1924.
#NativeAmericans #AmericanArt #EMartinHennings #aspen #AmericanArt #autumncolors #autumnfoliage

@mdstamper.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 4:33 PM

“Summer” by Thomas Wilmer Dewing (American) - Oil on canvas / 1890 - Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Connecticut) #WomenInArt #YaleUniversityArtGallery #Tonalism #AmericanArt #art #artText #yale #1890sArt #ThomasDewing #ThomasWilmerDewing #summer #arte #AmericanArtist #YaleUniversity

Four young women move hand in hand across a dark green landscape while a fifth, dressed in vivid red, sits at the right playing a harp. Their long evening gowns of muted gold, rose, brown, pink, and red form a sequence of color against a shadowed ground. Dewing elongates their bodies and simplifies their faces, so the women are less individual portraits than a measured procession. Slender birch trunks rise behind them in pale verticals, echoing the women’s upright forms, while their linked arms create a gentle horizontal rhythm that carries the eye across the canvas. Painted in Cornish, New Hampshire, in 1890, “Summer” belongs to the dreamy, atmospheric mode for which American artist Thomas Wilmer Dewing became known. Yale notes his interest in James McNeill Whistler, Asian design, and music, all of which help explain the painting’s unusual stillness and sense of arrangement. The women’s movement has often been described not as an energetic dance, but a controlled sequence of poses. The harp reinforces the musical structure of the composition, suggesting that Dewing was thinking about harmony not only as sound, but as an organizing principle for color, line, and spacing. The scene is idealized, but its women are not simply decorative accessories to the landscape. Their linked bodies command the center of the picture, and their coordinated movement gives them a collective presence. At the same time, Dewing withholds narrative clues like who they are, where they are going, or what relation binds them. That ambiguity allows the painting to hover between social scene, allegory, and dream. In the rapidly industrializing America of the late 19th century, such a cultivated, suspended world would have felt deliberately removed from modern urban life. “Summer” ultimately depends less on story than on the tension between motion and stillness with women moving through a landscape that seems almost motionless while their bodies turn music into a line.
@dave.feediverse.orgOct 9, 2026, 2:06 PM

Carolina Morning, 1955 #newrealism #americanart.

@art.feediverse.orgOct 9, 2026, 2:00 PM

Carolina Morning, 1955 #newrealism #americanart

@lronlacy.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 8:11 AM

‘Festival’ Daniel Celentano (New York 1902-1980). Oil on canvas. Public Works of Art Project. Smithsonian American Art Museum. Transfer from the U.S. Department of Labor. 1934.
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@livingnewdeal.bsky.social
#DanielCelentano #TheNewDeal #PWAP #AmericanArt

ON THE PAINTING: https://www.flickr.com/photos/americanartmuseum/3314709002/in/pool-1934/
@lronlacy.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 7:52 AM

#AUTUMN and the Ashcan School
‘An Autumn Landscape’
Ernest Lawson (1873-1939) n.d.
#ErnestLawson #AmericanArt #AshcanSchool #autumncolors

@dave.feediverse.orgOct 8, 2026, 9:17 PM

Float at Low Tide, Revere Beach (also known as People at the Beach), 1897 #americanart #impressionism.

@art.feediverse.orgOct 8, 2026, 9:00 PM

Float at Low Tide, Revere Beach (also known as People at the Beach), 1897 #americanart #impressionism

@patrickkapty.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 5:35 PM

Liberty and Justice for All
hand painted lithograph
c. 2006
Peter Max (1937-2026)
USA

#handmade #lithograph #handpainted #statueofliberty #nyc #libertyandjusticeforall #PeterMax #artist #artwork #art #postmodern #popart #political #patriotism #c2006 #AmericanArt #AmericanArtist #911relief #charity

@koyaabe.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 12:16 PM

Koya Abe: The Engagement Ring from the series Duplication/American Original, Topology of Art Chapter 9 (2014), archival inkjet print. www.koyaabe.com

#koyaabe #popart #art #Japaneseart #Americanart

@lronlacy.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 7:41 AM

#AUTUMN and the Ashcan School
‘Connecticut Landscape’
Ernest Lawson (1873-1939). Oil on canvas. n.d.
#ErnestLawson #AmericanArt #AshcanSchool #autumncolors #Connecticut

@lronlacy.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 1:34 PM

‘Mexico Trades Silver for Machinery’
‘Silver runs like lustrous thread through Mexican commercial history. ...’
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #PeterHurd #AmericanArt #Mexico #silver #Taxco #silversmith #banking #internationalbanking #Citibank

@lronlacy.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 1:34 PM

In #OCTOBER 1956
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‘Painting by Peter Hurd [1904-1984] - “Taxco from Silver Artisan’s Window”’
National City Bank of New York. October 1956.
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#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #PeterHurd #AmericanArt #Mexico #silver #Taxco #silversmith

‘Peter Hurd was an American painter whose work is strongly associated with the people and landscapes of San Patricio, New Mexico, where he lived from the 1930s. He is equally acclaimed for his portraits and his western landscapes.’ Wikipedia
@lronlacy.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 1:03 PM

#AUTUMN i#Taos
‘Canyon Aspen’ E. Martin Hennings (1886-1956). Oil on canvas. Ca. 1941.
#AmericanArt #EMartinHennings #aspen #AmericanArt #autumncolors #autumnfoliage

@chieya-tokyo.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 11:06 AM

Georgia O’Keeffe, Autumn Leaf II, 1927.

Deep reds, dark shadows, and the quiet shape of autumn.

#ModernArt #AmericanArt

@dave.feediverse.orgOct 6, 2026, 9:20 AM

Sailboats, 1985 #expressionism #americanart.

@art.feediverse.orgOct 6, 2026, 9:00 AM

Sailboats, 1985 #expressionism #americanart

@lronlacy.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 7:17 AM

#AUTUMN #Taos
‘Indian Hunters’ E. Martin Hennings (1886-1956). n.d.
#NativeAmericans #AmericanArt #EMartinHennings #aspen #AmericanArt #autumncolors #autumnfoliage

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