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painted skies

Posted in color, georgia o'keeffe, paintings, van gogh, tagged Berthe Morisot, Camille Corot, Eugene Boudin, Fontainebleau, Georgia O'Keeffe, vincent van gogh on October 3, 2014| 9 Comments »

Expressive skies as seen through the eyes of some of my favorite artists…

Wishing you a wonderful weekend!

Detail from The Roofs of Paris ~ Vincent Van Gogh

Wind Swept Sands, Shinnecock, Long Island ~ William Merritt Chase, 1894

Le Havre, Stormy Skies over the Estuary ~ Eugene Boudin, 1894

Wooded Plateau, Fontainebleau ~ Camille Corot, 1835-1840

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French Coastal Scene ~ Charles-Francois Daubigny, 1868

Clouds ~ Fyodor Vasilyev

Cabasson Landscape (study) ~ Henri-Edmond Cross, 1896-1899

Above the Clouds ~ Georgia O’Keeffe, 1962-1963

In the Patio VIII ~ Georgia O’Keeffe, 1950

Hanging the Laundry out to Dry ~ Berthe Morisot, 1875

Mountain Mist ~ Albert Bierstadt

Fontainebleau, Storm over the Plains ~ Camille Corot, 1822

Seascape Near Trouville ~ Gustave Courbet

Sky Study ~ Edgar Degas, 1869

Farm Scene ~ John Henry Twatchman, 1888-1891

The Roofs of Paris ~ Vincent Van Gogh, 1886

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I tried to paint what I saw…

Posted in georgia o'keeffe, paintings on July 31, 2012| 6 Comments »

From the Lake ~ Georgia O’Keeffe

“I tried to paint what I saw…I thought someone could tell me how to paint a landscape but I never found that person…I had to just settle down and try…they could tell you how they painted their landscape but they couldn’t tell me how to paint mine” ~ Georgia O’Keeffe

Storm Cloud, Lake George ~ Georgia O’Keeffe

Lake George (formerly Reflection Seascape) ~ Georgia O’Keeffe

Black Place II ~ Georgia O’Keeffe

Lake George Barns ~ Georgia O’Keeffe

Jack in the Pulpit No.V ~ Georgia O’Keeffe

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abiquiu, new mexico ~ georgia o’keeffe country

Posted in architectural digest, georgia o'keeffe on July 30, 2012| 4 Comments »

“When I got to New Mexico, that was mine…as soon as I saw it, that was my country…I had never seen anything like it before but it fitted to me exactly…it’s something that’s in the air…it’s just different…the sky is different…the stars are different…the wind is different” ~ Georgia O’Keeffe, age 92, from a video interview taken around her home in New Mexico