Portrait of the Publisher Eduard Kosmack
Mountainous Landscape
The Allegory of Faith -detail- r
A Woman Wore the hat
Frederick Edwin Church
Perspective view
St.john the Baptist in the Wilderness
Utab Museum of Fine Art
Arlon
Dead Rabbit with Hunting Gear -05-
Prophet Eliseus and the Woman of Sunem f
Chief Justice John Jay
Portrait of Caroline Sophie Moller
The Thresher-s supper
Portrait of a Man
Surveyor-s Wagon in the Rockies
Springtime through the Branches
Portrait of a Hunter Mare,The Property o
Eve, the Serpent, and Death
Ruins of Ancient Rome af
Earlimart
St John the Baptist
Mars
Madonna and Child
Portrait of Mr and Mrs.D.L.Clare -37-
Portrait of a Man fg
Cornelia Kuemmel
View of the Church at Venon
The Forge
Portrait of Charles de Solier, Lord of M
Adoration of the Shepherds sw
The Burial of Count of Orgaz
PANTOJA DE LA CRUZ, Juan
Nathaniel Sparhawk
Greek Art
Ranchosantamargarita
LONGHI, Pietro
Writing on the Sand -46-
Charles Fries
kimmie meissner photo
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Henri Matisse:
French Fauvist Painter and Sculptor, 1869-1954
Henri Matisse is considered the most important French artist of the 20th century and, along with Pablo Picasso, one of the most influential modernist painters of the last century. Matisse began studying drawing and painting in the 1890s. A student of the masters of Post-Impressionism, Matisse later made a reputation for himself as the leader of a group of painters known as Les Fauves. An ironic label given to them by a critic, the name reflected Matisse's aggressive strokes and bold use of primary colors. In 1905 Matisse gained sudden fame with three paintings, including Woman with the Hat, purchased by the wealthy American ex-patriot Gertrude Stein. Beyond painting, he worked with lithographs and sculpture, and during World War II he did a series of book designs. Later in his career he experimented with paper cutouts and designed decorations for the Dominican chapel in Vence, France. Along with Picasso,
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