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Beautiful Landscapes and Indigenous Art: The McMichael Canadian Art Collection Staff Picks

The McMichael Canadian Art Collection, located in Kleinburg, Ontario, is the largest public art collection in Canada that focuses exclusively on...

Szymon Jocek 17 November 2024

Alfred Stieglitz embracing his artistic partner and wife Georgia O'Keeffe Love Story

The Revolutionary Love Affair of Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz

The American painter Georgia O’Keeffe is best known for her abstract representations of flowers and desert landscapes. American photographer Alfred...

Mary Margaret Swets, 15 November 2024

Women Artists

Watch Georgia O’Keeffe Talking About Her Life

Georgia O’Keeffe was an American artist, best known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes.

Zuzanna Stańska 15 November 2024

John Everett Millais, Autumn Leaves, 1855, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK. Detail. Painting

An Ode to Autumn with John Everett Millais

Autumn weather can be unpredictable. Some days the earth looks as if cut out of crystal: the sky is a milky blue, and the sunlight is sparkling and...

Hannah Demaine 14 November 2024

Painting

Tom Thomson—Painter of the North

An avid outdoorsman, Tom Thomson was a close friend and colleague of the Group of Seven members. Although the Group of Seven formed after his death,...

Bec Brownstone 14 November 2024

Artist Stories

Painter’s Biggest Fear: The Blindness of Claude Monet

The eyes of an artist put to the service of art can reveal to us an unspeakable world that is very present around us. But what does this world, this...

Christopher Michaut 14 November 2024

Impressionism

4 Delicious Still Lifes to (Re)Discover Claude Monet

Amazing Impressionist landscapes, wonderful water lilies, the floral explosion at the famous Giverny garden… But what is perhaps less known...

Andra Patricia Ritisan 14 November 2024

Claude and Alice Monet in Piazza San Marco, feeding the pigeons. Art Travels

Venice in the Eyes of Claude Monet

Claude Monet fell in love with Venice the first time he saw it. He was 68 years old, and he went on a trip with his wife, Alice Hoschedé. The light...

Zuzanna Stańska 14 November 2024

Impressionism

Claude Monet: Explore His Home and Garden in Giverny

Claude Monet used his beautiful home and garden in Giverny, France, as the inspiration source for many of his paintings. We can all learn from the...

Nina Relf 14 November 2024

Artist Stories

5 Sculptures by Auguste Rodin You Should Know

Francois Auguste Rene Rodin was born in Paris on November 12th, 1840. The French sculptor is known as the progenitor of modern sculpture. Even though...

Pola Otterstein, Nicole Ganbold 12 November 2024

Masterpiece Stories

Masterpiece Story: The Burghers of Calais by Auguste Rodin

Auguste Rodin’s Burghers of Calais revolutionized public sculpture and changed the way heroes were represented in art. But what made it so...

Catriona Miller 12 November 2024

Sculpture

Watch Auguste Rodin Sculpting in 1915

Auguste Rodin was a master of modern sculpture. Instead of copying traditional academic postures, he preferred his models to move naturally around...

Zuzanna Stańska, Ania Kaczynska 12 November 2024