#WatercolorWednesday:
John Singer Sargent (American, 1856–1925)
Muddy Alligators, 1917
Watercolor over graphite on paper
H 34.3 cm (13.5 in) x W 52.1 cm (20.5 in)
#TwoForTuesday / #TurtleTuesday :
Yashima Gakutei 八島岳亭 (Japan, 1786?-1868) Turtles and Sake Cup, c.1827-9 Woodblock surimono print; ink, color & metallic pigment on paper shikishiban; H 21.6 x W 19.3 cm (8 1/2 x 7 5/8 in) Harvard Art Museums 1933.4.1717
TwoForTuesday :
Wilhelm Hunt Diederich (USA, born Hungary, 1884-1953) Fire Screen, Made in NY 1920-30 Wrought and sheet iron On display at Philadelphia Museum of Art 2007-62-1
#TwoForTuesday :
Helmut Middendorf (Germany, b.1953)
- Nashorn I, 1979 Synthetic resin paint on nettle fabric, 190 x 230 cm Sammlung Triebold, Rheinfelden
- Nashorn-Grün II, 1979 Synthetic resin paint on canvas, 190 x 230 cm Private collection, Berlin
FishFriday :
Akio Takamori (American, b. Japan, 1950-2017) Self-Portrait with Fish, 1982 Stoneware, 14-1/4 x 1-7/8 x 5 in (36.2 x 40.3 x 12.7 cm) on display at Palmer Museum of Art 2021.43
#FishFriday :
Ernest Chaplet (France, 1835-1909) Entwined Fish and Eel, 1888-1909 Porcelain with sang de boeuf glaze Now on display at Philadelphia Museum of Art “Firing the Imagination: Japanese Intluence on French Ceramics, 1860-1910”
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For a slow Sunday here are some Fabergé nephrite jade snails from Russia:
- Carl Fabergé, late 19th/early 20th century, carved nephrite jade, 4.8 x 8.1 x 3.2 cm, Victoria and Albert Museum
- Fabergé Workshop, c. 1900, carved nephrite jade with diamond eyes, 5.5 x 12.3 x 4.1 cm, Cincinnati Art Museum
- Fabergé Workshop, c. 1885-1905, carved nephrite jade with rose aventurine quartz shell and gold tentacles, 4.9 × 4.8 × 10.8 cm, The Art Institute of Chicago
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Snails for a slow Sunday:
Two plates featuring snails from Die Pflanze in Kunst und Gewerbe by Anton Seder (German, 1850-1916), 1890, an influential work in the Art Nouveau movement: Pl. 144 (top) and Pl. 158 (bottom).
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Another cool Fabergé snail:
Snail Fabergé Workshop (Russia) c. 1907 1.9 x 2.0 x 0.9 cm parti-colored cream and brown agate, "unusual because it has been carved in the manner of a cameo, with the different strata of the stone used to define the tips of the snail’s tentacles and distinguish its shell from its body."
Provenance: Probably commissioned by King Edward VII, 1907 (the Sandringham Commission); bought by the Prince of Wales (later King George V) from Fabergé's London branch 1909 (£3 10s.).
Royal Collection Trust collection.
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For a belated #InternationalLandSnailDay:
Pair of boxes with covers in the form of #snails, c.1750
German, Hanover Münden
Tin-glazed earthenware
3 × 4 1/4 in. (7.6 × 10.8 cm) each
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#Snails for a slow Sunday:
Pair of Covered Boxes in the Form of Snails, c. 1750
Strasbourg Factory
ceramic, faience
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A silly snail for a slow Sunday:
Beatrix Potter (English, 1866-1943)
"There was an old snail with a nest,"
June 26-July 28, 1898
Watercolor, pen & ink, & graphite on card
On display at The Morgan Library’s Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature exhibition
AN OLD SNAIL WITH A NEST
Beatrix saw a snail digging a nest and watched its eggs hatch. This drawing illustrates a limerick:
There was an old snail with a nest—
Who very great terror expressed,
Lest the wood-lice all round In the cracks under ground
Should eat up her eggs in that nest!
Her days and her nights were oppressed, But soon all her fears were at rest;
For eleven young snails
With extremely short tails,
Hatched out of the eggs in that nest.
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A snazzy snail for a slow Sunday: 🐌
John Paul Miller (American, 1918–2013)
Snail Pin, 1956
Gold & enamel, 6.1 x 2.6 cm (2 3/8 x 1 in)
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Tōshi Yoshida (吉田 遠志, Yoshida Tōshi, 1911-1995)
Eagle Owl, 1968
Color woodblock print, Oban size
#TwoForTuesday :
Pair of Owl-Shaped Jars
China, Henan province, Western Han dynasty, 206 BCE-9 CE
Amber brown-glazed low-fired pottery
19 x 13.8 x 11.8 cm (7 1/2 x 5 7/16 x 4 5/8 in.)
Cleveland Museum of Art
2020.178.1-2
“Pottery vessels in the shape of owls were made since Neolithic times and throughout the Bronze Age. These jars in the form of vigilant owls may have provided a tomb occupant with grain in the afterlife. However, the meaning of these mysterious birds and the association of the owl motif with burial sites in China is not fully understood.”
Heinrich Mathias Ernst Campendonk was born #OTD (Germany 3 November 1889 - Netherlands 9 May 1957). He was a member of the German Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter.
Bild mit Vögeln (Picture with Birds), 1916
Oil on canvas, 39 x 49.5 cm (15.3 x 19.4 in)
For #WorldJellyfishDay 🪼:
Compass Jellyfish (Chrysaora hysoscella), native to coastal temperate NE Atlantic Ocean.
1. Plate XXVII from Philip Henry Gosse's (English, 1810-1888) A Naturalist's Rambles on the Devonshire Coast, 1853
2. glass model from the Cornell Collection of Blaschka Invertebrate Models, c. 1882