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A beautiful example of Duncanson's painting is owned by the Milwaukee Art Museum, second floor Hudson River School room, we re-open this week!

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Robert Duncanson is one of the 1st critically recognized African-American painters
Art historian Joseph D. Ketner says his legacy was “his picturesque vision of landscape painting with allusions to popular romantic literature”

🎨 The Caves, 1869, @theamoncarter

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🐶 Dogs meet art

Instagrammer If Dogs Were Art pairs puppies with paintings...

Which combination is your favorite?

1️⃣ Gaela Erwin, 'Self-Portrait with Mouth Open'

2️⃣ Mary Beth McKenzie, 'Marcsi asleep (pink background)', 1996

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Robert Duncanson is one of the 1st internationally recognized African-American painters

Professor Richard Powell says that his success is a “victory over society’s presumptions of what African-American artist should create"

🎨 Landscape, 1865, @crystalbridges

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Seydou Keïta (1921-2001) is a world-renowned portrait photographer.

Serving elite patrons, his images emphasize the socio-economic status of his sitters through the inclusion of props such as cars and accessories.

📷 ‘Bamako’, series of photos, @Fond_Cartier

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Dogs meet art history!

Instagrammer If Dogs Were Art pairs pictures of puppies with historic artworks...

What do you think of this combination?

🎨 Gustav Klimt, 'Portrait of Marie Henneberg', @belvederemuseum

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Auguste Toulmouche (1829–1890), Vanity, circa 1870

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😍 Meet Jacob Lawrence & Gwendolyn Knight

The two African American artists got married in Harlem in 1941 and built reputations as painters and printmakers, art educators and activists.

Arnold Newman, ‘Jacob Lawrence & Gwendolyn Knight’, 1947, @MuseumModernArt

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🎨 John Singer Sargent, ‘Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose’, 1885 - 1886, from @Tate

Only able to paint for minutes each evening - when the light was just right - Sargent worked on this picture from September to early November 1885, and again in the summer of 1886.

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19th century landscape painter Robert Seldon Duncanson is one of the 1st internationally recognized African-American artists.

🎨 Landscape with Cows Watering in a Stream, 1871 @metmuseum

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🤔 Did you know... Van Gogh actually painted 3 versions of his ‘Bedroom in Arles’?

1️⃣ 1st version, October 1888, @vangoghmuseum

2️⃣ 2nd version, September 1889, @artinstitutechi

3️⃣ 3rd version, end September 1889, @MuseeOrsay

Which version is your favorite?

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🐶 Dogs meet art history... 😍

Instagrammer If Dogs Were Art pairs pictures of puppies with historic artworks...

🎨 Jan Van Eyck, 'Man with turban', 1433, @NationalGallery

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🐶 Dogs meet art history 😍

Instagrammer If Dogs Were Art pairs pictures of puppies with historic artworks.

🎨 Salvador Dalí, 'The Persistence of Memory', @MuseumModernArt

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Kara Walker, ‘Fons Americanus’, 2019, @Tate

This sculpture represents the African diaspora and questions how we remember history in public monuments.

Inspired by the Victoria Memorial in London, the fountain offers a powerful critique of the colonial empire.

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In her journals, Alma Thomas wrote “color is life, for a world without color appears to us as dead” and “the rainbow is a symbol of peace."

🎨 ‘Resurrection’, 1966, White House Collection

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Malian photographer Seydou Keïta (1921 - 2001) began taking pictures of his family, neighbors, friends, and clients at his father’s workshop, around the age of 12-14.

Image: ‘Bamako’, series of photos, in the 'Mémoire Vives' exhibit at @Fond_Cartier, 2014

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19th century landscape painter Robert Seldon Duncanson is one of the 1st internationally recognized African-American artists.

🎨 Landscape with Rainbow, 1859, @smithsonian

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South African artist Mary Sibande pays hommage to workers like her mother & grandmother. “I regard these women as superheroes” she explains.

'They Don’t Make Them Like They Used To' (2008) is a photograph of Sibande making a Superman jersey.

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This painting by a 17th-century nun broke a record!

Sold by @sothebys, the painting by Orsola Maddalena Caccia sold for £212,500 - 14 times its estimate.

This shows art collectors are interested in once-forgotten female artists.

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