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Do you wanna know what I just discovered? The website for the National Gallery Of Art - at nga dot gov - is searchable! I guess I haven't really looked around government websites since you-know-who has made everything worse, but I like the idea of looking for images there instead of the wild west of search engine searches - altho I'm not entirely sure about the legality of posting these images here. Maybe it's cool because the art belongs to America? I'll try to find out.
The painting above is entitled Beached Vessel, it's by George Loring Brown, the date is "c.1880." The website tells us it's "watercolor on wove paper." (Good thing it's not woke paper, amirite? Ugh this is the worst time to be alive.)
Wikipedia tells us that "George Loring Brown (February 2, 1814 – June 25, 1889) was an American landscape painter. He was born in Boston & first studied wood engraving under Alonzo Hartwell & worked as an illustrator. He studied painting with Washington Allston, but soon went to Europe, residing principally in Italy for years. Brown spent much of his life abroad, & the motives of his pictures are usually Italian, & there is nothing specifically American about them either in treatment or sentiment."
Ouch! Take that, person who lived in the 19th century & didn't want to hang out in America!
Does this mean there might be more art from the National Gallery on this blog? If I remember, sure! Is this the reason this week's show's theme is "vessel"? No, I'll tell you that tomorrow.
