Richard Williamson

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Tove Marika Jansson 1914-2001 Swedish-speakingFinnish author, novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author. Brought up by artistic parents, Jansson studied art from 1930 to 1938 in Helsinki, Stockholm, and Paris. She drew illustrations and postcards.

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Eugène Jansson (Swedish, 1862 - 1915)

Evening, 1894
Oil on canvas

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Elsa Beskow (1874 – 1953) Swedish author/illustrator of children's books. Among her better known books are Tale of the Little Little Old Woman & Aunt Green, Aunt Brown & Aunt Lavender.

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Akseli Gallen-Kallela (Finnish, 1865-1931)

Lake Landscape (Lake Keitele) 1915

Pastel on paper 101 x 95 cm

Hi-res image:

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Richard Hall (Finnish 1860-1942)

Interior from Brittany (Interior. Scene in Brittany France) 1888
Oil on canvas 75 x 93 cm
National Museum, Sweden

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Taos Home in Sunlight (1925)

Akseli Gallen-Kallela (Finnish, 1865 - 1931)

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Maria Wiik (Finnish 1853-1928)

Lying cat, Mosse, 1872 - 1873
21 × 26 cm, oil on canvas
Finnish National Gallery / Ateneum Art Museum

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Inge Löök - Finnish Illustrator 1951 -
“The Merry Aunties “

“I couldn’t understand why 2 old aunties became so cherished. I prefer to explore the inner world as opposed to their outer shell; to stay in the small moments which they share so well”-Inge Löök

U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”

What possible rationale is intended to justify these actions?
Trump’s legacy will be the wholesale forfeiture of every moral principle our nation has strived to protect and emulate since it’s inception.

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🙄 Hegseth’s Department of Where 🙄

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Pettson and Findus

Sven Nordqvist-1946 is a Swedish writer/illustrator of children's books, best known for his series Pettson and Findus, about the old farmer Pettson and his talented cat Findus. He is also active as a comic artist

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Inge Löök - Finnish Illustrator 1951 -
“The Merry Aunties “

“I couldn’t understand why 2 old aunties became so cherished. I prefer to explore the inner world as opposed to their outer shell; to stay in the small moments which they share so well”-Inge Löök

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Pettson and Findus

Sven Nordqvist-1946 is a Swedish writer/illustrator of children's books, best known for his series Pettson and Findus, about the old farmer Pettson and his talented cat Findus. He is also active as a comic artist

Tuula Lehtinen studied in The Finnish Academy of Fine Arts 1976-1980, and has since then been an active player in the Finnish art scene. For her the development of the printmaking field has been particularly interesting and the renewal of valuable tradition and craftsmanship have played a central role in her work. She is attracted to the old traditional techniques, but wants to bring them in a fresh way into today’s art making. The artist, who loves hand- making and decoration, mosaic has proved to be an excellent tool for artistic expression. In recent years, Lehtinen has made a number of impressive mosaic works and bringing art into the architecture has become increasingly important issue in her work.

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Tuula Lehtinen (Finnish, born 1956)

Morning Haze III, 2016
Oil on canvas
170 x 120 cm
Private collection

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Inge Löök - Finnish Illustrator 1951 -
“The Merry Aunties “

“I couldn’t understand why 2 old aunties became so cherished. I prefer to explore the inner world as opposed to their outer shell; to stay in the small moments which they share so well”-Inge Löök

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Theodor Severin Kittelsen 1857-1914 Norwegian artist. One of the most popular artists in Norway. Famous for nature paintings, illustrations of fairy tales and legends, especially of trolls.

Kjøttmeis (Blåmeis)
Great Tit. 1909
Watercolour
40 cm x 29,5 cm

In the silence of departing summer,
the ginko forest sprites alight on gentle breezes, gliding one by one to earth below,
Knitting together a patchwork quilt of exquisite gold,
Beckoning me home

떠나가는 여름의 고요함 속에서
은행나무 숲의 요정들이 부드러운 바람에 내려앉아 하나둘씩 땅으로 미끄러지듯 내려앉는다.
고급스러운 금빛 패치워크 이불을 뜨며
나를 집으로 손짓한다.🩷

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Lena Christine Anderson 1939- Swedish children's book author/illustrator.

50 children's books. Long-collaboration w/Christina Björk , books about Storm-Stina , & Linnea (incl Linnea in the painter's garden (Claude Monet ) & about Maja , incl Maja's alphabet

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Tove Marika Jansson 1914-2001 Swedish-speakingFinnish author, novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author. Brought up by artistic parents, Jansson studied art from 1930 to 1938 in Helsinki, Stockholm, and Paris. She drew illustrations and postcards.

Friday Finnish!!

Inge Löök - Finnish Illustrator 1951 -
“The Merry Aunties “

“I couldn’t understand why 2 old aunties became so cherished. I prefer to explore the inner world as opposed to their outer shell; to stay in the small moments which they share so well”-Inge Löök

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Hans Andersen Brendekilde (Danish,1857-1942).

The Woodman and his Children, 1886

Oil on canvas, 128 cm x 109.5 cm, National Museum of Art, Oslo.

I’m pretty sure it was 30,000 Billion Jillion illegal immigrants, not 30 million.

I should be VPOTUS; I can make waaaayyyy better shite up than JD Vance…🙄🙄🙄🙄

Who knew that those guys in the Home Depot parking lot bought all the houses?🤷‍♂️?

Feckin eejit….🙄

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Johan Otto Hesselbom 1848-1913
Swedish painter

Alley in Autumn Colors - 1889
Oil on canvas - 105 x 73 cm

Painted in 1887 and signed A. Andersen-Lundby München, this work reflects the artist’s lifelong fascination with the stillness and clarity of the Nordic and Alpine landscape in winter. Anders Andersen-Lundby specialized in snow scenes and atmospheric depictions of the cold season, a focus that earned him considerable recognition in both Denmark and Germany during the late nineteenth century. His relocation from Copenhagen to Munich in 1876 placed him within one of Europe’s leading centers of naturalist painting, where he continued to refine his luminous handling of reflected light and his serene, panoramic compositions. The painting, titled Wintertag am See in German, presents a tranquil lakeside setting enveloped in frost and silence, with subtle human activity lending warmth to an otherwise wintry expanse. Through his mastery of tonal gradation and his delicate rendering of atmosphere, Andersen-Lundby achieved a poetic balance between human presence and nature’s grandeur. Privately, the artist led a stable family life in Munich, where he remained until his death in 1923. Though less radical than many contemporaries, his art exemplified a quiet lyricism deeply admired by collectors of the period.

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Anders Andersen-Lundby, Danish, 1841–1923 (born Lundby, Denmark; died Munich, Germany)
A Winter Day at a Mountain Lake, 1887
Oil on canvas
77 × 107 cm (30.3 × 42.1 in)

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Pettson and Findus

Sven Nordqvist-1946 is a Swedish writer/illustrator of children's books, best known for his series Pettson and Findus, about the old farmer Pettson and his talented cat Findus. He is also active as a comic artist

this idyllic evocation of childhood depicts Carl Larsson’s seven year old son in the Larssons' family home in Stora Glasbruksgatan, Stockholm, at Christmas time. Standing in his nightgown with a gingerbread man in his hand, he wears a casque on his head to add to the festive mood. Behind Ulf, the table is draped with a cloth designed and embroidered by Karin Larsson for her husband, with the letters CARL spelled out. To the left of the candlesticks is a silver cup which was gifted to Ulf by his grandmother and engraved with both his name and the date. Charming in its spontaneity, the work was unrecorded until 1999. Carl Larsson's son, Ulf, died in 1905. He passed away on April 14th during an operation. In loving memory of Ulf.

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Carl Larsson (1853-1919) Swedish painter.

"ULF" c.1894. Watercolour & ink on paper. In loving memory of Ulf.
c.1894,

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Carl Larsson (Swedish, 1853-1919)

"Staketet / Vid staketet" (The Fence / By the Fence)
Signed C.L. within a circle and dated 1904.
Watercolour

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Carl Larsson, (1853-1919) Swedish

Portrait of Johanna Carolina Erika Ståhlberg, the artist’s mother, watercolor, date unknown

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Carl Larsson (1853-1919) Swedish painter.

"Lisbeth Playing the Accordian" c.1909.
Watercolour and pencil on paper.