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Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund

Christo, Package on Wheelbarrow, 1963
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136809

Agnès Varda, Self-Portrait, Venice, 1960

The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection (by exchange)

Gerhard Richter, Dead, 1963
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137535

Abstract painting

New artwork, “Biomorphic”, 60cm x 80cm, oil painting.

#Stunday #BlueSkyArtShow #artist #ArtChallenges #art #painting #drawing #ArtPrompt #ContemporaryArt #Surrealism #AbstractArt

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Marcel Duchamp, The Passage from Virgin to Bride, Munich, July-August 1912
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134989

Edward Hoole
Preston, England. c. 1900
📸MoMA

#poster

Vera Kri

Milky Way over a northern Minnesota forest. Stars are reflecting off of a still foreground river.

Northern Minnesota night sky reflections

#landscape #landscapephotography #nightsky #milkyway #minnesota #reflection #river

Scott Burton Fund

Liam Gillick, Sometimes They Worked in Groups of Three, 2008
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137214

Photo of a white stone sculpture of a female figure lying while holding a bracelet, side view with head to the left

Harriet Hosmer (1830-1908)one of the first recognised US professional female sculptors #womensart

©Stephen Mackey

Mason Storm's "Thug 4 Life" (2018)

Mason Storm's "Thug 4 Life" (2018) reinterprets a Norman Rockwell painting with a provocative twist. It shows a young child sitting in a diner, wearing a "Thug 4 Life" T-shirt and holding a gun behind his back. #art #artist

#photography #monochrome #thefield

Jeff Koons THREE BALL 50/50 TANK (TWO SPALDING DR. J SILVER SERIES, WILSON SUPERSHOT), 2024

Jeff Koons
THREE BALL 50/50 TANK (TWO SPALDING DR. J SILVER SERIES, WILSON SUPERSHOT), 2024 #art

Vaginal Rapture, 2014
by Hoda Zarbaf, multidisciplinary artist from Tehran, Iran #WomensArt

Frances Samuel arrived in Sydney, Australia in 1832 with her widowed mother Lydia; younger brother Saul; and an uncle, Abraham Lyons to join her other uncles Samuel and Saul Lyons, both of whom had become prominent businessmen in the 1820s. Saul Lyons had come to Sydney a free settler; Samuel Lyons had arrived as a convict after receiving a life sentence for theft in 1814. Newspaper references about Frances indicate that she enjoyed a genteel existence in Australia for several years before returning to England with her mother in March 1841. She appears in this portrait by English artist Maurice Felton as a light-skinned young woman with dark hair styled in ringlets framing her face and pulled back. She wears a dark, possibly velvet, off-the-shoulder gown and a long thin gold necklace. Her expression is serious and composed, and her gaze is directed to our left. The background is a muted, dark brown. The overall feel is one of quiet dignity and sophistication. Felton, artist and doctor, traveled to Australia as the surgeon on a ship called the Royal Admiral which arrived in Sydney in September 1839. Felton enjoyed more success as a painter than a medical practitioner earning praise from the "The Australian" newspaper for his portraiture, "for faithfulness of likeness and brilliancy of execution, they rival the productions of many of our best artists at home." His work soon attracted the attention of arts patrons. In late 1841, Felton exhibited a number of portraits and "some beautiful views of the interior of the country." with a lottery, for one pound, whereby subscribers that won could own an example of "Mr Felton’s talents in the delightful art of painting." He passed away shortly thereafter at 39 in March 1842. Meanwhile, Frances Samuel returned to England that same month. She lived life there with her first husband and child passing away by 1861 and marrying again. She lived in Earl's Court until around 1900.

"Miss Frances Samuel" by Maurice Felton (English) - Oil on canvas / 1840 - National Portrait Gallery (Canberra, Australia) #WomenInArt #art #Felton #MauriceFelton #artwork #PortraitofaWoman #AustralianArt #NPG #NationalPortraitGallery #OilPainting #artText #EnglishArtist #BlueskyArt #1840s #hair

Photo featuring two standing Black girls facing forwards in grassy field wearing multicoloured beaded jewellery

The beaded jewellery created by Maasai women artisans,Tanzania, is integral to Maasai culture #womensart

©Stephen Mackey

"Maple Dance" Original Oil Painting by Erin Hanson 2019 24 x 30 in https://www.erinhanson.com/portfolio/maple-dance About the Painting A flurry of color moves through this painting of Japanese maple trees, inspired by a recent trip to Kyoto, Japan. The impressionistic brush strokes are loose and lively, creating a mosaic of color and texture across the canvas. This painting is being sold on consignment.

Fall is almost here! Here's a poem and some art to get you into the autumn mood.

Late September is
wearing a sky-colored
lined kimono

By Kobayashi Issa | Translation by Zoria P.K.

Pictured: Maple Dance by Erin Hanson

#autumn #colorfulart #dailyart #natureart #mapletree #originalart @bsky.art

Gift of The Cantor, Fitzgerald Collection

Auguste Rodin, Study for the Naked Balzac, c. 1893 (cast 1971)
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136564

Keith Haring
Untitled, 1982
Vinyl Ink On Vinyl Tarpaulin

Detail: Procession of the Youngest King (c. 1464), by Benozzo Gozzoli

Boa noite ✨🙏🌟🫂

Advisory Committee Fund

Naum Gabo, Spiral Theme, 1941
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136120

Fractured Whispers is an abstract portrait born from chaos. The overlapping, tangled lines echo the noise of thought and memory, yet from this storm emerges a face — sharp, haunting, and undeniably human. The work speaks to fragility and resilience, the way identity is pieced together from fragments, shadows, and fleeting impressions. It captures the paradox of clarity within disorder: how something deeply expressive can emerge from the uncontainable. Art copyright ©Yves Broeckx This is digitally created art concept and execution by Yves

I F R A C T U R E D W H I S P E R S I

“Lines collide, faces emerge — chaos becomes identity. ‘Fractured Whispers’ is an exploration of presence, absence, and everything in between.”

- The Asylum Art -
Art and words by Yves

#art #portrait #blueskyart #complexptsd #cptsd #chaos #face

Aristide Maillol Fund

Umberto Boccioni, Development of a Bottle in Space, 1912 (cast 1931)
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136377

A Chapel in the High Mountains, by Hugo Holdiener (1886-1945)

Passage (2007) by land artist Cornelia Konrads #WomensArt #Monday