#Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

[arthistoryanimalia]

#ThreeForThursday:

Tea Service in the Shape of Quails

Gujarat (formerly Baroda), India, 1920-30

Silver, gilded silver, ivory

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts display

“The British were not India's only patrons of elegant silver.

Native princes - always engaged in dynamic cultural interchanges with their British overlords - also commissioned silver of the highest quality. Such patronage was nowhere more prominent than in western India, where the rulers of the state of Kutch were champions of their silversmiths. These leaders ensured their region's silver became the best known of India's styles through sponsorship at international exhibitions, beginning with London's Great Exhibition of 1851. This stylishly whimsical tea service in the shape of richly feathered quails was produced by Oomersee Mawjee Jr., son of Kutch's most renowned master silversmith, after he shifted to the employ of another western Indian ruler, Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III of Baroda.”

#animals in art #20th century art #museum visit #birds in art #bird #birds #quail #Indian art #South Asian art #Asian art #colonial art #silver #tea service #metalwork #1920s #Virginia Museum of Fine Arts #Three for Thursday #trio

[pagansphinx]

This is an unusual painting for Gentileschi. The majority of her work depicts women in dominant, powerful roles. This is an unusual painting for Gentileschi, as it depicts the subject, Venus, in a vulnerable situation. Art historians believe that it was possibly a reaction to the tastes of art patrons. It's very likely that paintings depicting women in role of control over men was not popular in that era. Gentileschi was raped by her art tutor as a teen and we can see by most of her paintings that she worked through that event in her work as a painter.

~Pagan Sphinx

Artemisia Gentileschi • Venus and Cupid • 1626 • Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

#art #painting #fine art #bannedonpinterest #art history #17th century art #art nude #baroque art #italian artist #artemisia gentileschi #woman artist #womanan painters #venus #cupid #pagan sphinx art blog #virginia museum of fine arts

[garadinervi]

Howardena Pindell, Removal 3/8, (mixed media on paper), 1973 [MCA – Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL. Garth Greenan Gallery, New York, NY. © Howardena Pindell]

Exhibitions: Howardena Pindell: What Remains To Be Seen, Curated by Naomi Beckwith, Marilyn and Larry Fields (MCA), and Valerie Cassel Oliver, Sydney and Frances Lewis Family (VMFA), MCA – Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, February 24 – May 20, 2018. Then VMFA – Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, August 25 – November 25, 2018

#art #mixed media #visual writing #geometry #exhibition #howardena pindell #naomi beckwith #marilyn fields #larry fields #museum of contemporary art chicago #virginia museum of fine arts #garth greenan gallery #1970s #2010s

[dwellerinthelibrary]

A concise Amduat. The lady offering incense to Osiris is Henet-tawy aka Henuttawy. According to Ancient Art in the Virginia Museum (1973), the figure at left, just before Osiris in the pink rectangle, represents "the deceased with plumed headdress assisting in the resurrection of Osiris". The book also says the British Museum has a papyrus which might be another part of this one -- presumably this and this?

Where: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

When: Third Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty

#Ancient Egypt #papyrus #Amduat #Osiris #Virginia Museum of Fine Arts #Third Intermediate Period #21st Dynasty #Henettawy #Henuttawy

[frenchcurious]

Marcel Coard (1889-1974) sofa, ca 1927, pour la résidence de Jacques Doucet - Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. - source Ana Thiebaut.

#marcel coard #jacques doucet #virginia museum of fine arts

[burned-too-bright]

VMFA, Whistler to Cassatt: American Painters in France

#Virginia museum of fine arts #mary cassatt #james abbott mcneill whistler #impressionism

[downthetubes]

Influential artist and philosopher Alphonse Mucha in focus at various exhibition around the globe

Alphonse Mucha, whose art has influenced advertising, comics, set design and more, is the focus of several exhibitions around the globe this year

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#Alphonse Mucha #Arcane #Art Noveau #Barcelona #downthetubes News #Exhibition News #Florence #Grand Palais Imersif #Hiroshima Musuem of Art #Hôtel de Caumont #Manga #Mucha Museum #Museo degli Innocenti #Palau Martorell #Paris #Prague #The Mucha Foundation #Virginia Fine Art Museum

[mrbopst]

The one and only time I got to see Sun Ra (playing Disney)

He did not disappoint.

#Sun Ra #VFMA #Virginia Museum of Fine Art #80s #Disney #Richmond #Virginia #RVA

[iiireflexiii]

Anemones and Daffodils (1884) by Henry Roderick Newman (1833-1918), watercolor, Virginia Museum of Fine Art

#anemones #daffodils #1884 #henry roderick newman #1833 #1918 #virginia #museum #fine #art

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Grocer in Harlem, ca. 1937.

Photo: Aaron Siskind via the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

#vintage New York #1930s #Aaron Siskind #vintage Harlem #grocer #grocery store #old grocery store #Harlem merchant #b&w photography

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #Woodensday:

Janus or Two-headed Animal Figure, 19th-20th c.

Mambila culture (Nigeria, Cameroon)

Wood, paint

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts 2006.222

#animals in art #20th century art #museum visit #19th century art #VMFA #Virginia Museum of Fine Arts #African art #Woodensday #woodwork #sculpture #Janus figure #two-headed figure #zoomorphic #effigy

[memories-of-ancients]

Marble sarcophagus, Roman, 3rd century AD

from The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

#history #antiquities #art #ancient history #ancient art #ancient rome #youtube

[garadinervi]

Howardena Pindell, Untitled, (mixed-media assemblage, acrylic paint, canvas, grommets, and stuffing), 1968-1970 [MCA – Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL. Mott-Warsh Collection, Flint, MI. © Howardena Pindell]

Exhibitions: Howardena Pindell: What Remains To Be Seen, Curated by Naomi Beckwith, Marilyn and Larry Fields (MCA), and Valerie Cassel Oliver, Sydney and Frances Lewis Family (VMFA), MCA – Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, February 24 – May 20, 2018. Then VMFA – Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, August 25 – November 25, 2018

#art #mixed media #assemblage #exhibition #howardena pindell #naomi beckwith #marilyn fields #larry fields #museum of contemporary art chicago #virginia museum of fine arts #mott warsh collection #1960s #1970s #2010s

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

William Adolphe Bouguereau (French, 1825-1905) Battle of the Centaurs and the Lapiths, 1852 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

#William Adolphe Bouguereau #William Bouguereau #Bouguereau #art #french art #french #france #fine art #european art #classical art #europe #european #oil painting #fine arts #europa #mediterranean #mythological art #mythology #centaur #centaurs #1800s #male form #female form

[twixnmix]

Andy Warhol posing with one of his Elvis silkscreen paintings at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond on December 3, 1985.

Photos by Greg Mathieson

#andy warhol #elvis #1985 #artist #pop art #1980s #1980s art #warhol #pop culture

[nancydrewwouldnever]

Kawase Hasui, Snow at the Zojoji Temple, 1929, woodblock print (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond)

#kawase hasui #art #woodblock print #print #shin hanga #20th century #japanese art #landscape