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| Who painted this? #30 |
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Who Painted This #29 - The Answer
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| Lilacs in a Window by Mary Cassatt |
- Title of the artwork: Lilacs in a Window
- Name of the artist who created this artwork: Mary Cassatt
- Date it was created: c.1880
- Media used: oil on canvas, 61.595 x 50.8 cm
- Where it lives now: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
I always tend to stick with Wikipedia / Wikimedia Commons for paintings - however that's not to say that the latest version available isn't one that has been corrupted.
I did think the painting looked overhyped in colour terms. However if I look at the image on the Met's website then I see a very pale undercoloured version which is quite unlike the rest of Cassatt's painting.
I suspect the real version is very possibly somewhere between the two.
Maybe someone who visits the Met can tell us?
Who guessed correct?
Well a lot of you got this one right! I'm allowing "private collection" and "Metropolitan Museum of Art" on this one as both are correct. It hangs in the Met but does not belong to it. However it's part of an anticipated gift.However Jane Housham (Things to Make and Do) was the first to get the complete correct answer. On her website the second sentence of her "about" statement says "I have loved looking at art ever since I played ‘guess the artist’ with my mum as a child" so I guess she's got a bit of a headstart at participating in this educational exercise!
Others who got it correct are:
- Colours and Textures
- Alyson Champ
- Cynthia James
- Barbara Jackson
- Sandra Robinson
- Carol Lewis
- bernadettemadden
- Mark
John Sell Cotman
ReplyDeleteSonya - you didn't read the instructions. Try again.
ReplyDeleteJohn Sell Cotman (1782-1842)
ReplyDeleteA Summer Day Painted between 1827-1837
Watercolor and graphite
One of the leaders of the Norwich School of Painters
His style is highly original employing clearly defined areas of color structured by abstract patterns and shapes.
Yale center for British Art, New Haven Connecticut
How I got there. My search was based on the following assumptions.
Watercolor
Plein air
Pre Impressionism
Pastoral landscape
Went to the French Barbizon School first approximately 1830 to 1860. Then worked from there to American and British painters that met the above criteria
Title A Summer Day
ReplyDeleteArtist John Sell Cotman
Date 1827-1837
Medium Water colour and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper.
Where Yale Center for British Art
How I tried googling a few obvious words..cows clouds with no success, then went out to deliver a picture to a gallery . When I came back I noticed the figure in the picture is wearing a kilt, so I googled Scotland, Paintings and came on something I thought was similar. This ,the Bass Rock, Scotland was by Cotman , I googled him and A Summer Day soon appeared.
Bernadette Madden
It’s called ‘A Summer Day’ by John Sell Cotman, date done 1827 – 1837, Watercolour and graphite on paper. It’s at Yale Center for British Art
ReplyDeleteI was pretty sure it was J S Cotman, or one of the other Norwich painters, so I google searched ‘Images’ using the words ‘John Sell Cotman Summer Norwich Museum’ and taking your hint about summer, I put that in, and added ‘Norwich Museum’ because that’s a likely place for it to be. Wrong on that point.
And there it was in the second row of images. Clicked on it which took me to Wikimedia and hence I found the other information you require.
I am probably last to get this because I had no idea and then I found it completely by accident after reading your post today on the major exhibitions and in particular the Wallace collections exhibition of Watercolours, you mentioned Girton who I had not heard of so I googled him which then led me to look at the paintings of John Sell Cotman and there it was.
ReplyDeleteJohn Sell Cotman
A Summer Day
1827-1837
Watercolour and Graphite
Yale Centre for British Art