Matthew Warren Lee

Oil painter, drawing historian, geometer, and science support professional

[ADAM GORHAM @AdamTGorham]

Inking Swamp Thing

[Matthew Warren Lee @MWarrenLee]

I'm just going to go with all of them!

[National Gallery of Art @ngadc]

You’re walking through the museum in person…which do you visit first?

1, 2, 3, or 4?

[National Gallery of Art @ngadc]

“Yesterday’s flowers are today’s dreams.” — Japanese Proverb

🔎 Martin Johnson Heade's mystical world of flora and fauna 🌱

Take an even closer look ➡ https://t.co/UWc6ebZil9

[Matthew Warren Lee @MWarrenLee]

Fascinating to see hard geometry in animal life. Beautiful.

[Ross Piper @DrRossPiper]

I haven't made this one up.

This is a Leptochirus rove beetle. I found it under some sawn timber in the Peruvian Amazon along with a bunch of other stuff.

Looking under loads of rocks and logs and seeing the same old faces is worth it for nuggets such as these.

[Matthew Warren Lee @MWarrenLee]

Wheatfield under Thunderclouds, July 1890, Auvers-sur-Oise

[Van Gogh Museum @vangoghmuseum]

What do you think is Vincent van Gogh’s most calming work?
🌻 Vincent van Gogh, The Harvest (1888)

[Matthew Warren Lee @MWarrenLee]

One of the most underrated but important works in the history of video games. And one of my favorites (I play the NES version at least once a week).

[World of M.U.L.E. @WorldOfMULE]

Happy 38th birthday, M.U.L.E.! It took some time, but finally the Flat-Irata Theory could be debunked 😅 #Atari #Atari400 #Atari800 #Commodore #Commodore64 #C64 #retrogaming #retrogames https://t.co/gqRrS26Fqy

[Matthew Warren Lee @MWarrenLee]

Whoops, it's Fragonard, but I was close :)

[Matthew Warren Lee @MWarrenLee]

Going to go with Watteau

[Matthew Warren Lee @MWarrenLee]

Going to go with Watteau

[National Gallery of Art @ngadc]

Which 18th-century artist created this painting? #ArtJeopardy

🔎 Uncover the answer ➡️ https://t.co/jYE5C4uEQ5

[Matthew Warren Lee @MWarrenLee]

Tetris, as an idea, is perfect. Alexy Pajinov is a genius. Versions vary (the SNES one somehow destroyed the game), but the perfect version, in my opinion, is the NES Tengen version. I've tried them all and can account, it is perfect.

[Matthew Warren Lee @MWarrenLee]

I love this building, the American Louvre

[National Gallery of Art @ngadc]

Architecture from the mind of I. M. Pei✨

Notice the sharp edges and geometric angles beautifully realized by the legendary architect. Yet, some are unaware of just how groundbreaking Pei’s plan of our East Building actually was...

[Matthew Warren Lee @MWarrenLee]

Agnes Martin

[National Gallery of Art @ngadc]

Which artist’s work always puts you in a good mood?

We’ll go first: Alma Thomas.

[Matthew Warren Lee @MWarrenLee]

I called this as John Constable before I checked the thread, promise!

[National Gallery of Art @ngadc]

What dreams are made of ☁️

[Matthew Warren Lee @MWarrenLee]

This Schiele is new to me - very reminiscent of drawings by Matisse

[Ashmolean Museum @AshmoleanMuseum]

'Female Nude' by Austrian artist Egon Schiele is one of our more recent acquisitions at the Ashmolean. A black chalk drawing on cream wove paper, it dates back to 1918 - the year that the artist died at the age of 28 in the Spanish flu pandemic.

[National Gallery of Art @ngadc]

In 1871, Thomas Moran, a gifted young artist working in Philadelphia, boarded a train that would take him to the far reaches of the western frontier and change the course of his career forever. 🌄

🖼 Thomas Moran, “Green River Cliffs, Wyoming,” 1881, oil on canvas

[Van Gogh Museum @vangoghmuseum]

📝‘I regard love – as I do friendship – not only as a feeling but chiefly as an action – and particularly when it involves working and is an effort, it has another side of fatigue and powerlessness. Where people love sincerely and in good faith, they are blessed I believe.’

[Matthew Warren Lee @MWarrenLee]

Beautiful work!

[Lee Ridley @ChobhamBirder]

It’s finished!
(No doubt I’ll stare at it for a day or two and do some tweaking)
- African Wild Dog

[Matthew Warren Lee @MWarrenLee]

I'm always surprised by these specimens - What was the evolutionary imperative for features that extreme?! The closest animal I can even think of is a triceratops.

[American Museum of Natural History @AMNH]

We’re celebrating #StPatricksDay in a big way, with one of the largest known deer: the Irish Elk! This extinct megafauna weighed in at around 1,500 lbs (680 kg). Its enormous antlers, which could reach a 13 ft (4 m) spread, were used in ritualized combat between males.🍀

[Matthew Warren Lee @MWarrenLee]

The Rock, by Peter Blume, at the Art Institute of Chicago.

[National Gallery of Art @ngadc]

What’s one painting you saw as a kid that’s always stuck with you?

[National Gallery of Art @ngadc]

What’s one painting you saw as a kid that’s always stuck with you?

[The Antarctic Report @AntarcticReport]

And here it is! The 2021 South Pole marker! unveiled today at 90°South; designed by 2020 winter-over Geoff Chen of @SPTelescope. Each 1 January a new marker is relocated to the true 90°South, as the ice sheet moves 10m per annum over the bedrock 2.6km below @NSF pic DJ Jennings