…Dark Questions, Answering the Light by Jay Moon https://www.nga.gov/artworks/58772-dark-questions-answering-light
Inscriptions & Marks Inscriptions "Moon ’75" lower right margin, graphite, artist’s hand
Inscriptions & Marks Inscriptions "Moon ’75" lower right margin, graphite, artist’s hand
Inscriptions & Marks Inscriptions "Hannelore Baron" verso, graphite, artist’s hand
Inscriptions "no#/Black / no 1" verso, lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand
Not dated. "1" [encircled] verso, center sheet, unknown hand.
"Travelers" lower left margin, graphite, artist’s hand.
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Version, c. 1618-1622, etching printed in black on linen (prepared with ground) and hand-colored
Like his compatriot Nicolas Poussin, Claude Lorrain forged his career in Rome. Claude’s vision of the Roman countryside is grounded in a careful observation of nature, but he transformed the landscape into a timeless, idealized world through his masterful rendering of sunlight and strict structuring of space.
He braces a long staff in his far hand, and raises his right hand, closer to us,
At the beginning of the twentieth century, as he turned from a career as a painter and a graphic and tapestry designer to concentrate on sculpture, Aristide Maillol was shaping what would become the leitmotif of his career. The subject that inspired him was the female nude, carefully observed but transmuted by underlying geometric forms into a kind of architecture, evoking the timeless rather than the individual.
She holds her left hand, to our right, to that cheek so the elbow is close to the
Discover works by Carle Van Loo and learn about the artist
paper ·  Accession ID  2013.46.4    Artwork   Carle Van Loo, Seated Man with Head in Hand
1650 · bronze · Accession ID 2022.181.45 Artwork Netherlandish 16th Century, Hand