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Red Sunset. God's paintbrush at work. Breathtaking Dirk.
Frederick Judd Waugh(1861 - 1940)
Frederick Judd Waugh was an American artist, primarily known as a marine artist. During World War I, he designed ship camouflage for the U.S. Navy, under the direction of Everett L. Warner.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederi...
Amber, Jade, and Amethyst
Oil on canvas
150 x 119.5 cm
Reading Public Museum, Reading, United States
https://www.readingpublicmuseum.org/
Francesco Lojacono(1838 - 1915)
Francesco Lojacono or Lo Jacono was an Italian painter, mainly of landscapes and seascapes, and mainly active in his native Palermo, Sicily.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances...
The Unexpected Arrival
1883
oil on panel
119.5 x 239.5 cm.
Quirinale Palace, Rome, Italy
https://palazzo.quirinale.it/palazzo_...
Because of this painting Lojacono became known as “The Sun Thief”
The Unexpected Arrival1883
oil on panel
119.5 x 239.5 cm.
Quirinale Palace, Rome, Italy
Very nice.
David Hockney(b. 1937)
David Hockney is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_H...
Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)
1972
Acrylic on canvas
213 x 305 cm
Private collection
Sold at Christie’s, November 2018
https://www.christies.com/en/stories/...
In November 2018, This painting sold for US$90.3 million, at that time the highest price ever paid at auction for a painting by a living artist.
I saw David Hockneys exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1978. He was and is amazing.
Anna Ancher(1859 - 1935)
Anna Ancher was a Danish artist associated with the Skagen Painters, an artist colony on the northern point of Jylland, Denmark. She is considered to be one of Denmark's greatest visual artists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_An...
Høstarbejdere (Harvesters)
1905
Oil on canvas
56.2 x 43.4 cm
Skagens Museum, Skagen, Denmark
George Inness(1825 - 1894)
George Inness was an American landscape painter. Now recognized as one of the most influential American artists of the nineteenth century, Inness was influenced by the Hudson River School at the start of his career. He also studied the Old Masters, and artists of the Barbizon school during later trips to Europe. There he was introduced to the theology of Emanuel Swedenborg, which was significant for him; he expressed that spiritualism in the works of his maturity (1879–1894).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_...
A Winter Sky
1866
Oil on canvas
82 x 102 cm
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, United States
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1927...
(1841 - 1910)
Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi was a Russian landscape painter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkhip_...
Red Sunset on the Dnipro
1905-1908
134.6 × 188 cm
Oil on..."
Looks like an atomic bomb.