The Friday Afternoon Challenge returns to welcome the summer solstice!

CTyankee

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Fri Jun-17-11 04:05 PM
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The Friday Afternoon Challenge returns to welcome the summer solstice!

Edited on Fri Jun-17-11 04:10 PM by CTyankee

In honor of the upcoming official start of Summer -- identify who has captured these memorable summertime images and their titles. And, as always, please no Goggles �guesses.� Play fair...
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Call Me Wesley

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Fri Jun-17-11 04:13 PM
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1. Number 5 looks like Thomas Eakins,

but I'm more familiar with a painting of two guys in a boat. No idea about the title, though. Rowing something? ;)

First and second one look familiar, but can't spot it right now. I'm sure the second one is from a French painter, impressionist era.

:hi:

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CTyankee

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Fri Jun-17-11 04:14 PM
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2. Keep goin'!

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Call Me Wesley

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Fri Jun-17-11 04:29 PM
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7. Nah, for number 5, I've found it.

It's in the Yale University Art Gallery, so I won't give the title away. This was by real accident, since I've never herd of this painter, but Heidi is interested in rowing, and I googled it recently and saw this, so I remembered seeing this one. :)

The lady in the boat looks like in the style of Berthe Morisot, but that's just a hard guess.

I really like number 1, but no clue.

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CTyankee

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Fri Jun-17-11 05:11 PM
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17. Really, you never heard of #5? He's pretty famous...

The lady in the boat looks like MOrisot and a number of other impressionists (for good reason!)...

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Angry Dragon

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Fri Jun-17-11 04:20 PM
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3. #4 Forth of July

#1 Carnival

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CTyankee

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Fri Jun-17-11 04:25 PM
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4. who created these?

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Angry Dragon

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Fri Jun-17-11 04:27 PM
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6. Painters names are not my forte

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CTyankee

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Fri Jun-17-11 04:36 PM
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9. #1 is not named Carnival.

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Maine-ah

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Fri Jun-17-11 04:27 PM
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5. #2

Monet?

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CTyankee

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Fri Jun-17-11 04:36 PM
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10. Unfortunately, no. You are in the right art era, tho...

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CTyankee

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Fri Jun-17-11 04:45 PM
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14. Uh, I don't even do Monet's stuff any more. It is SO popular...

Edited on Fri Jun-17-11 05:40 PM by CTyankee

which is good in general for art and us Americans. I try to delve now into artists who deserve a little more respect, but are somewhat neglected, even tho once they were considered the finest...art is a tough profession!

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KittyWampus

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Fri Jun-17-11 04:30 PM
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8. HEY! You did Dogs last week and haven't done Cats. I demand equal time for cats!

UP WITH CATS!

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CTyankee

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Fri Jun-17-11 04:39 PM
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11. Kitty! I did cats FIRST. Don't you remember my Challenge?

It was entitled "Hello, Kitty" and I think I did it in April.

I had a "complaint" that I didn't do one on dogs at that time...you can't win, I guess...:hi:

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KittyWampus

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Fri Jun-17-11 04:40 PM
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12. Oh dear.

:blush:

Okay to try and cover my ass... how about birds.

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CTyankee

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Fri Jun-17-11 04:43 PM
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13. I dunno. There are possibilties out there...

You woulda loved my "Hello, Kitty" challenge. I had some good ones (I think...).

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Angry Dragon

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Fri Jun-17-11 05:01 PM
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15. I know #6 but can not say because of googlie

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CTyankee

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Fri Jun-17-11 05:09 PM
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16. Thanks, Angry Dragon!

You do understand, don't you? It kinda defeats the whole idea of the Challenge...

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blogslut

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Fri Jun-17-11 05:13 PM
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18. I haven't a clue but I adore the colors and strokes in painting #1

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CTyankee

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Fri Jun-17-11 05:15 PM
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20. You might want to think more about the color!

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blogslut

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Fri Jun-17-11 05:18 PM
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21. Well, it's a seaside depicted

That much I'm sure of. The location could be anywhere (France or Italy or freaking Coney Island) set sometime around the turn of the 20th century.

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CTyankee

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Fri Jun-17-11 05:33 PM
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23. color, color, color...who did that?

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blogslut

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Fri Jun-17-11 07:12 PM
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44. Well, after some Wikipedia-ing and some Googling

I now know the artist, the painting and the name of the movement. But I'll not name those here so that someone else who actually knows can give the answer. :)

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CTyankee

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Fri Jun-17-11 07:24 PM
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45. Sounds like you have the whole thing, blogslut! Go ahead and guess...

did my hint about color help?

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blogslut

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Fri Jun-17-11 07:37 PM
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47. Albert Marquet - Posters at Trouville - 1906

I got it from reading the Wikipedia entry on Henri Matisse and how he was part of the Fauvism movement. So then, I did a Google image search using the keywords "Fauvism" and "beach" and there it was. :hi:

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CTyankee

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Fri Jun-17-11 07:40 PM
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48. Hooray! Isn't it lovely?

I just adore fauvism...it's so beautiful and appealing to the senses. I'm completely carried away with the fauvist paintings and sorry it didn't last more than just a few years...

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blogslut

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Fri Jun-17-11 07:44 PM
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50. I'm digging on it too

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CTyankee

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Fri Jun-17-11 05:14 PM
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19. Hint: #3 is in a museum in Paris...

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Fri Jun-17-11 05:28 PM
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22. Winslow Homer, Two Girls Dancing

Is it in the Louvre?

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CTyankee

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Fri Jun-17-11 05:34 PM
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24. Did my hint get it for you?

Not in the Louvre. Homer sold it to the Orsay...

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pinboy3niner

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Fri Jun-17-11 05:40 PM
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27. Funny, I did a quick check of the Orsay and didn't find it

But that was before I thought of Homer.

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CTyankee

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Fri Jun-17-11 05:42 PM
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28. I didn't see it there when I visited in April but that is my understanding...

I thought it was phenomenal at the time I read that it was there...but it IS kind of off beat in a way you might think the Orsay would like it...but what do I know?

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CTyankee

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Fri Jun-17-11 06:32 PM
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34. I think it is titled "Summer Night, 1890" and you might get it that way...

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pinboy3niner

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Fri Jun-17-11 06:51 PM
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38. Oops, you're right--I had the title wrong

And you're right about it being in the Orsay, too.

I'd sure hate to have to go up against you on Jeopardy! :)

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CTyankee

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Fri Jun-17-11 06:58 PM
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42. No, I just found this out recently...I had no idea that the Orsay had bought a Homer!

I think it was the whole idea of two women dancing together on a beach with sailors in the dark nearby watching. It seemed kind of strange...not something American audiences would care for. But the French...well, ya know...

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WinkyDink

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Fri Jun-17-11 05:36 PM
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25. Wait; we're not to use Google to see if we can narrow things down to ID these?

Edited on Fri Jun-17-11 05:37 PM by WinkyDink

Becaause I usually have guessed an artist or a style and then proceeded from there.

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CTyankee

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Fri Jun-17-11 05:39 PM
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26. I'm just talking about using the Goggle technology....kind of a reverse Google where

you take a picture of the image and then search for it on Google. I just think that defeats the whole idea of the Challenge...lots of DU folks like art and like to reminisce about their first encounter of certain paintings...I just love to hear their stories...really nice...

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WinkyDink

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Fri Jun-17-11 06:31 PM
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33. I Googled "Goggle" and got nothin'!

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CTyankee

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Fri Jun-17-11 06:34 PM
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35. I don't know much about it but it's an Android thing. You can't just google it from your

desktop...

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Angry Dragon

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Fri Jun-17-11 06:03 PM
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29. I read posts #25 and #26 and is it okay to google without using

the reverse picture google??

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CTyankee

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Fri Jun-17-11 06:19 PM
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30. Of course! That's not the problem!

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Angry Dragon

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Fri Jun-17-11 06:22 PM
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31. Okay then ........... # 6

Lake For Model Sailboats Central Park 1890
by William Merritt Chase

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CTyankee

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Fri Jun-17-11 06:30 PM
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32. Wonderful! Chase was a fine American painter in his day...I just love this scene...

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Angry Dragon

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Fri Jun-17-11 06:36 PM
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36. #5

John Biglin in a Single Scull I

by Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins

painted early 1870's I think

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CTyankee

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Fri Jun-17-11 06:47 PM
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37. There you go! Do you like Eakins?

He was considered one of the most important American artists in the early 20th century. He faded in fame but his work is revived every now and then. An important contributor to our art here in the U.S....

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Angry Dragon

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Fri Jun-17-11 06:53 PM
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40. I prefer the more realistic painting such as this

Edited on Fri Jun-17-11 07:08 PM by Angry Dragon

edit: changed "his" to "this"

fingers working funny

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CTyankee

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Fri Jun-17-11 06:59 PM
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43. his what?

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CTyankee

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Fri Jun-17-11 07:34 PM
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46. All his works were in Realism, actually...it's one of the great things about Eakins...

he's a really great American Realist...I just love his works...always so true to his calling...

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Beaverhausen

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Fri Jun-17-11 06:51 PM
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39. #1- Matisse, #2- Monet, #3- Degas, #6- Pissaro - am I close?

Edited on Fri Jun-17-11 06:53 PM by Beaverhausen

edit- oops- I read the thread and see I'm wrong on #6.

Is #2 Renoir?

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CTyankee

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Fri Jun-17-11 06:55 PM
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41. You are close with #1 guessing Matisse (altho it is not him)...think of his style...

the others are not correct...for #2 you are in the wrong country...

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CTyankee

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Fri Jun-17-11 07:42 PM
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49. Hint for #4. Obviously, it is a photograph...but by whom?

Edited on Fri Jun-17-11 07:43 PM by CTyankee

Bill Clinton had his photo taken with him...

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Kind of Blue

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Fri Jun-17-11 07:52 PM
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51. Is #3 a Rembrandt?

Edited on Fri Jun-17-11 07:54 PM by Kind of Blue

Sorry, kept getting the numbers confused :blush:

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CTyankee

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Fri Jun-17-11 07:59 PM
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52. #3 is by Winslow Homer and it is called "summer evening, 1890."

Homer was a late 19th century American artist. He sold this work (painted somewhere in Maine I believe) to the Musee D'Orsay in Paris, where it can be seen today...

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elleng

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Fri Jun-17-11 10:49 PM
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53. Hi, yank. Got here late, still in NJ. Saw Amy's OT Master's Project presentation.

These pics LOVELY, as ever!

:hi:

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CTyankee

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Sat Jun-18-11 07:31 AM
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55. Hi, Ellen! Glad to see you here!

How was Amy's presentation?

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elleng

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Sat Jun-18-11 07:41 AM
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57. Informative. She gave me all the written material,

archive of her work and description of her project, in nice 3-ring binders, so I get to study what she's been studying. The 'interrogation' was private, but displays of projects open for friends and families to view.

'School's' over so she'll be in 'shock' for a bit, wedding planning henceforth (until internships, after September honeymoon!)

:hi:

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CTyankee

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Sat Jun-18-11 08:43 AM
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58. I love family milestones. Mazel tov!

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elleng

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Sat Jun-18-11 04:13 PM
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59. Merci!

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elleng

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Sat Jun-18-11 12:26 AM
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54. In the mood; have to share:

Edited on Sat Jun-18-11 12:27 AM by elleng

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/06/19/travel/06192011PROVENCE-12.html

reminds me of

Took pic of field like this from the road, YEARS ago!

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CTyankee

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Sat Jun-18-11 07:33 AM
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56. Scenes like that are so perfect...I love Monet's repeating the red-orange of the flowers

on the child's hatband...

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