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mbjohnsonblr · 1 year

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19 and Rolla Road.MB Johnson. Oil on panel.

#art #americanart #paintings #realism #gas station #artists on tumblr

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divalocity · 1 year

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Beautiful-in-Person: Bisa Butler's quilted and appliquéd textile portrait of Harriet Tubman, based on the carte-de-visite photograph portrait of Harriet Tubman by Benjamin F. Powelson at the NMAAHC. #art #nmaahc #bisabutler #americanart #americanartist #herstorymakers #blackamericanheritage #blackhistorymonth #blackamericanhistory #travelwashingtondc #americanhistory #harriettubman #benjaminfpowelson #travelphotography #blackamericanartists (at Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture) https://www.instagram.com/p/Co5ew0sunSc/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#art #nmaahc #bisabutler #americanart #americanartist #herstorymakers #blackamericanheritage #blackhistorymonth #blackamericanhistory #travelwashingtondc #americanhistory #harriettubman #benjaminfpowelson #travelphotography #blackamericanartists

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harvardfineartslib · 1 year

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This year’s theme for Black History Month is Black Resistance. This month, we will focus on Black artists whose work challenges the status quo of being Black in this nation, and addresses issues ranging from civil rights, racial inequality, poverty, racism, and the everyday lives of African Americans.

Bill Traylor (1853 – 1949) started drawing and painting on discarded cardboard at the age of 85. He became a celebrated artist posthumously for the nearly 1,500 works he created on the city sidewalks during his years of living in the segregated part of Montgomery, Alabama.

Traylor was born enslaved on an Alabama plantation and lived much of his life as a sharecropper after Emancipation. He created works with unique vision to tell stories and memories of the hard life he experienced. At first glance, his images seem deceptively simple, but they reveal layers of complexity, reflecting his lived experience and the fraught history of slavery and Jim Crow South. In 1949, Traylor died impoverished in a segregated hospital.

“When Traylor started drawing, it was a radical act. He was among the first generation of blacks to become American citizens, but literacy and personal agency for African Americans were still touchy issues in Alabama--and personal expression poking at a racially fraught past was unequivocally dangerous. Social systems in the Jim Crow South--designed to impoverish and disenfranchise the formerly enslaved--were forceful and pervasive, and Traylor's existence was grounded in knowing the difference between white and black worlds and keeping his thoughts and personal views hidden. But for Traylor, charting his life and memories in pictures was an indelible and validating testament of selfhood, and in their very creation are subversive works.” (from Smithsonian Art Museum website)

Image 1: Front cover

Image 2: “Exciting Event: House with Figures,” 1939 – 1943, Poster pain and graphite on cardboard, 13 1/2”x 13 7/8”

Image 3: Left page: Left: “Four Men, Bottles on a Shelf,” 1939 – 1942, Crayon and graphite on cardboard, 13 1/2' x 7 1/2'. Right: “Man on Triangle Reaching for Bottle,” 1939 – 1942, Graphite and charcoal on cardboard, 12”x 8”, Right page: “Man Reaching for Bottles,” c. 1939 – 1942, Graphite on cardboard, 17”x 14”

Bill Traylor Rousseau, Valérie [author] Milan : 5 Continents, [2018] English, French HOLLIS number: 99153758042303941

#BlackResistance #BillTraylor #Blackartist #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackAmericanArtist #Drawing #Painting #Americanart #HarvardFineArtsLibrary #Fineartslibrary #Harvard #HarvardLibrary #harvardfineartslibrary #fineartslibrary #harvard #harvard library #harvardfineartslib #harvardlibrary #painting

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mirellabruno · 5 months

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Madeleine Bialke (American, 1991), Mariners, 2021.

Oil on canvas, 22 1/8 x 18 in.

#thunderstruck #madeleinebialke #americanart #trees

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mykmartinez · 1 year

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American Gothic Bottom Half • Myk Martinez - I always felt something was missing from this wonderful painting. I now feel like I have some closure. #americangothic #famouspaintings #thingsyoudidntknow #classicpainting #painting #art #behindthescenes #backstage #americanart #museum #masterpiece #museumfromhome https://www.instagram.com/p/CqZnZkIsK0f/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#americangothic #famouspaintings #thingsyoudidntknow #classicpainting #painting #art #behindthescenes #backstage #americanart #museum #masterpiece #museumfromhome

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lartesumarte · 9 months

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EDWARD HOPPER - SOIR BLEU

1914

Olio su tela

91x182,7 cm

New York, Whitney Museum

#art #arte #arte e cultura #storia dell'arte #painting #artist #arte contemporanea #novecento #oliosutela #realism #americanart #americanrealism #hopper #edward hopper #art history #american art #oil painting

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jamaicanartfantasy · 9 months

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Jamaican fantasy royalty art

#jamaican animation #jamaican artist #jamaican drawing #jamaican fairies #chonny jash #uk artist #AMERICANART

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tynatunis · 1 year

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Maurice Prendergast (American, 1858 – 1924) Beach at St. Malo ca. 1907 Oil on canvas, 36.8 x 44.5 cm Carmen Thyssen Collection • #Repost @paintings_i_love № 3205 Prendergast, who enjoyed swimming, depicted the seashore in countless paintings from Revere Beach or Gloucester in Massachusetts to St. Malo in France. Prendergast loved the sea, and at times, as he was attempting a water cure to alleviate his deafness, his pleasure in bathing took on an almost hedonistic quality. "To take off one's clothes and lay full stretched on the sand exposed to the wind and the sun is the finest sensation I know on a spring day. Even in cold days in March one little realizes the penetrating force of the sun on the body." Although Prendergast had visited St. Malo during his 1891-1894 stay in Paris and also in 1914, it was his two-month summer visit in 1907 that inspired most of his canvases. St. Malo, situated on the Brittany Coast, had at the time a little more than ten thousand inhabitants. Prendergast was obviously attracted by the coastal town with "its high tides and ramparts, " where he painted such landmarks as the lighthouse and Chateaubriand's Tomb, but it was the fine sandy beach with its colourful bathing tents that attracted him the most. As with the artist's earlier paintings of Revere Beach, he has assumed an elevated viewpoint looking down to the bathers on the warm sands of the resort town… • • • • • • • • #Prendergast #AmericanArt #Seascape #impressionisme #impressionistpainting #artforeveryone #art #fineartpainting #paintingoftheday #peinture # #arthistorian #peintre #malerei #americanart #americanimpressionism #americanpainting #americanpainter #postimpressionism #postimpressionismo #postimpresionismo (à Sète, France) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp4qaDeIEpm/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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archivesofperception · 2 years

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#rubirose #americanart

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rehsgalleries · 6 months

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James Edward Buttersworth

(1817 - 1894)

American Packets in Coastal Waters

Oil on canvas

13 x 17 inches

Signed

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trascapades · 1 year

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🎨#ArtIsAWeapon #Artist: #JeanMichelBasquiat #Artwork: Beat Bop. Test Pressing, Version One, Volume One • Read my brother @jefword's story in @wax_poetics about hanging and creating with Basquiat: Reposted from @jefword That time me and #Basquiat were hanging out making beats and doodling with a magic marker on a bedsheet hanging on a wall at the studio. ✊🏾💯 Taken from the Wax Poetics article "Basquiat In The Place To Be" "So he comes up a couple other times to hang out, and one night he’s there, and Matt had this one big sheet that was tacked up over the window for insulation. I could draw Fred Flintstone really fast, I always loved Fred Flintstone since I was a kid, so I drew it on a piece of paper. Jean saw it and gave me a black magic marker and said, “Draw it up there,” meaning on the sheet, so I did. He said, “That’s really good!” Then he drew a figure. Then I drew another character. Then he drew something else. Then I started writing graffiti a little bit, and he started writing. We were just high as hell, marking on the whole thing. Then he said, “Sign it.” So I signed it. Then he signed it.. Now, I did not know this was Basquiat. I thought he was just some cool dude...." Jean-Michel Basquiat December 22 1960 - August 12 1988 🙏🏽 #Art #ArtIsAWeapon coined by @trascapades #AmericanArt #WorldArt #Artists #BlackArt #BlackArtists #RomarieBearden #ErnieBarnes #ArtAndMusic #ArtAndHipHop https://www.instagram.com/p/CmfgXEMstQl/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#artisaweapon #artist #jeanmichelbasquiat #artwork #basquiat #art #americanart #worldart #artists #blackart #blackartists #romariebearden #erniebarnes #artandmusic #artandhiphop

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jasonthielke · 1 year

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I made a repair on this painting for a long time collector. #artsagram #woodgrainart #artonwood #negativespace #details #drawing_expression #newcontemporary #artoftheday #newcontemporary #artistsatwork #artfigurativo #printstagram #artcollector #interieurstyling #artcontemporian #artjurnal #artdaily #originalart #artwatcher #americanart #portraitartistoftheyear #femaleprofile #windswepthair #artworks #artlife #artrestoration #artmarket (at Denver, Colorado) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClRRa9GLG6k/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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stephenreichert · 1 year

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Stephen Reichert, Nearly Perfect From Now On. Acrylic, pen, charcoal, thread, and ink on canvas, 40” x 40”. 💠 #nearlyperfect #perfect #art #contemporaryart #artist #artgallery #contemporarypainting #acrylicpainting #painting #bmore #bmoreart #baltimoreartist #baltimoreart #americanart #americanartist #americanartists #artwork #stephenreichert #stephenreichertart #charcoal #pen #ink #canvasart (at Baltimore, Maryland) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClRQdznukiy/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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lawrencefineart · 2 years

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A gem by Paul Resika: “Swirling Pink Clouds”. #paulresika #contemporaryart #artadvisory #artonpaper #pastelart #interiordesign #landscapepainting #americanart #paintingoftheday #abstractart https://www.instagram.com/p/CgxfphSg2tT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#paulresika #contemporaryart #artadvisory #artonpaper #pastelart #interiordesign #landscapepainting #americanart #paintingoftheday #abstractart

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seunandez · 2 years

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Union #ila #cyanotype #print #printmaking #blue #indigo #star #peace #art #artistsoninstagram #artwork #artist #america #americanart #cyano #cyanotypes #cyanotypeprint #cyanotypeprocess #cyanomasters #cyanotypeart #printmaker #printing #artcollector #artoftheday #artistic #artgram #arttherapy #artcollective #love #scan https://www.instagram.com/p/Cicu8y_uuGg/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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artsology · 2 years

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“Forms Abstracted,” 1914, by Marsden Hartley, from the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum. #americanart #modernart #marsdenhartley #whitney #whitneymuseum #painting #abstractart #horse (at Whitney Museum of American Art) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChV47DIF-mz/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#americanart #modernart #marsdenhartley #whitney #whitneymuseum #painting #abstractart #horse

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