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
For a belated #InternationalDogDay 🐶:
Pair of pug dogs
Made in Jingdezhen, China; about 1750
Spotted at the “Outside In: Nature-inspired Design at Winterthur” exhibition
Winterthur collection
Czech #ArtNouveau artist Alphonse Mucha was born #OTD (24 July 1860 – 14 July 1939)
Dogs, top half of Plate 42 from Alphonse Mucha's Documents Decoratifs, Paris, 1901-2.
For #Woodensday: carousel dogs!
1. Loof Factory
"Queen" Carousel Piece, 1890
painted wood
2. Devos Carousel Makers
French Carousel Poodle, c.1923
painted wood
Both display at AKC’s Museum of the Dog in NYC.
#TwoForTuesday:
Edwin Megargee (American, 1883-1958)
Chs. Bonnie Brighteyes of Mannerhead, Arnim of Pip, 1937
oil on canvas
breed: Poodle
on display at Museum of the Dog
If you’ll be in NYC check out this pair of exhibits at Museum of the Dog - will post photos from my own visit soon! 🐶
Outfoxed: Fox Terriers and Friends January 24 – June 2 2024 Apokalupsis: An Uncovering The Art of Joseph Sulkowski May 9 – August 4 2024 AKC Museum of the Dog
#BookRecommendations for #NationalPetDay :
Happy 95th birthday to Yayoi Kusama, born #OTD 22 March 1929! Here are a trio of colorful canines from The Life of Animals in #JapaneseArt exhibition at National Gallery of Art (2019).
1 Megu-chan, 2014
2 Toko-chan, 2013
3 Sho-chan, 2013
fiberglass-reinforced plastic, paint
“The Japanese titles of these sculptures refer to affectionate nicknames for childhood friends.”
#PuppyBowl party:
Gary Baseman (American, b. 1960)
Dancing Dogs, 1990
From A Dozen Dizzy Dogs by William H. Hooks (1921-2008)
Watercolor on paper
now on display at “Childhood Favorites: 100 Years of Children’s Book Illustration” exhibition at Washington County Museum of Fine Arts
A pair of good doggos for #TwoForTuesday:
Angelica Kauffmann (Swiss, 1741-1807) Telemachus Returning to Penelope, c. 1771 Oil on canvas
On display at “Making Her Mark: A History of Women Artists in Europe, 1400-1800” exhibition at Baltimore Museum of Art
“Penelope greets her son Telemachus after several years of separation as the other members of the household joyfully react. Angelica Kauffmann's portrayal of a scene from the ancient Greek epic The Odyssey (written c. 800 BCE) translates a distant literary event into a gracefully staged homecoming narrative that highlights a mother's perspective.
This painting, shown in the 1771 exhibition of Royal Academy in London, signals Kauffmann's achievement of widespread professional success according to male-dominated standards that held historical narratives as the most noble and intellectual of subjects. Just two years before, she became a founding member of the Royal Academy, which counted her and Mary Moser as its only female members.”
For #InternationalDogDay 🐶:
#DYK Edvard Munch loved dogs? He owned many during his life, including various terriers, Gordon Setters, St. Bernards, Rottweilers, and a Samoyed. You can find many of them among his works of art, including these cuties!
Edvard Munch (Norwegian, 1863–1944)
Valper på gulvteppet / Five Puppies on the Carpet, 1919-21
Oil on canvas, 50 × 80.5 cm
For when #InternationalDogDay falls on #Caturday…
“Two to one on black.” c. 1903
Publisher: Raphael Tuck & Sons (English, 1886–1960)
Chromolithograph on card stock
8.9 x 14 cm (3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.)
#TwoForTuesday + #TerrierTuesday: 2 of the goodest boys in DC!
1 Fala (Scottish terrier, d. 1952), a favorite pet of FDR. Bronze sculpture by Neal Estern at the FDR Memorial.
2 Owney (terrier mix, d. 1897), mascot of the Railway Mail Service & USPS. Bronze sculpture by Daniel C. Brown at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum.
For #NationalPuppyDay:
Netsuke of Puppies at Play, Japan, Meiji period, late 19th century, ivory, H. 1 in. (2.5 cm) x W. 1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm) x D. 1 1/8 in. (2.9 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Detail from a page in a Jewish medieval illuminated manuscript (BL Add. 26896 f. 361v) with the decorated initial Hebrew word Barukh (blessed) adorned with six dog busts.
6 dogs? #BLESSED indeed! 🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶
British Library Additional 26896: Festival prayer book (mahzor) for the Special Shabbatot, Passover, Shavuot with the Book of Ruth, and Ninth of Av with the Book of Lamentations, Ashkenazi rite (aka 'Tinted Mahzor') Isaac (scribe) Germany, 1st half of the 14th century Hebrew, Ashkenazi square and semi-cursive script, partially punctuated