Johan Barthold Jongkind - Moonlit River Landscape, 1870.
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Théodore Rousseau
La mare aux fées, forêt de Fontainebleau, circa 1848
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Jean-François Millet (French, 1814-1875) - Ploughing at Sunset
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Welcome to New York’s legendary hotel for women, the Barbizon.
Liberated after WWI from home and hearth, women flocked to New York City during the Roaring Twenties. But even as women’s residential hotels became the fashion, the Barbizon stood out; it was designed for young women with artistic aspirations, and included soaring art studios and soundproofed practice rooms. More importantly still, with no men allowed beyond the lobby, the Barbizon signaled respectability, a place where a young woman of a certain class could feel at home.
As the stock market crashed and the Great Depression set in, the clientele changed, though women’s ambitions did not; the Barbizon Hotel became the go-to destination for any young American woman with a dream to be something more. While Sylvia Plath most famously fictionalized her time there in The Bell Jar, the Barbizon was also where Titanic survivor Molly Brown sang her last aria; where Grace Kelly danced topless in the hallways; where Joan Didion got her first taste of Manhattan; and where both Ali MacGraw and Jaclyn Smith found their calling as actresses. It was home to American royalty like Liza Minnelli and Little Edie Beale, who made their way here as they attempted life beyond their famous family homes. Students of the prestigious Katharine Gibbs Secretarial School had three floors to themselves, Eileen Ford used the hotel as a guest house for her youngest models, and Mademoiselle magazine boarded its summer interns there, including a young designer named Betsey Johnson.
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Chris stood in his pank speedos a bit shellshocked in the wake of Brad’s story. That NOT everything was better with BACON a real blow to the system. Then again, it was a reality check and confirmation modeling school at Barbizon proved a far better investment for himself than acquiring debt and parking tickets for four years. Not only did Chris work as model, he looked like one too. Chris then circled back to the BACON BIT. What were his six degrees in? It seemed like a lot but for whatever reason also relatable.
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Type 6 #Dessin #tree Jean-Baptiste #CamilleCorot #style #Sketch Pencil #Landscape Work in progress.12th October 2022 No.1-1 #study for #effect of #brushstrokes . ***** Thank you so much #JeanBaptisteCamilleCorot École de #Barbizon #drawing #Pencil #lightandshadow #dessin #lightanddark #art #muse #museum #painting #artoninstagram #ig_italia #hello_france #pencilsketch #artlover #japan #monaco #paris #nyc https://www.instagram.com/p/Cjr_g1PP0QZ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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