So today, class, we are exploring some American painters. I hope you enjoy (I certainly did).
Inness "Home of the Heron"
Don't you just feel it? That brooding expectation?
Cassatt "Breakfast in Bed"
Isn't this just beautiful and wonderfully understated?
I love her profile, and for some reason her right arm. It's very elegant, but that right arms adds a great deal of reality to the piece.
Apparently she was quite the scandal, with numerous affairs and possible abortions (very daring for the time period). You know women of the age would sometimes put arsenic on their skin to make it translucent (so you could see the blue veins underneath. How strange!)
Whistler, "Blackboard"
I love her dress, the texture and such.
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