Snow at Louveciennes
Poppies
Enfield
Mount Fuji in Clear Weather
Lakeplacid
Details of Monkeys in a Tavern
Banquet of the Officers of the St George
baby footprint image
Credulity,When love-s epistle its sweet
La Siesta
art supplies
Cullom
Landscape with Washerwomen fdu
Angels Worshipping
Sunris,Yosemite Valley
The Moorish Screen -35-
Impression,Sunire -Impression,soleil lev
New England Landscape with Ruined Chimne
Iona
Home Sweet Home
Man Standing,Hands on Hips
Portrait of Sir Richard Southwell
Charles Green,RI
The Dream
At Hailsham,Storm Approaching
Madonna and Child in Glory with Cherubim
Lute Player awr
Moulding
Alden J Weir
La Parade
Madonna with Child fe5
The Temptation of St. Anthony
Eastcapegirardeau
The Course of Empire-Desolation -13-
Portrait de Francisco Bandres de Abarc -
Portrait of an Unknown Nobleman
Forest
Rumor erat in Casa -There was a Commotio
Italian Renaissance -20-
A Coast Line in Jamaica,West Indies
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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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