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Nude on a Couch, Gustave Caillebotte, c. 1880, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Paintings

Nude female figure lying on a flowered couch This picture belongs with a group of studies of male and female nudes painted by Caillebotte about 1880. It is unique, however, for the uncompromising realism of its anatomical observation and for its apparent sexual innuendo. The model would eventually become Caillebotte’s mistress.The artist has challenged the prevalent standards of taste and morality, which accepted in paintings only the academic tradition of idealized nudes. Because of its effrontery, this picture was neither exhibited nor sold during Caillebotte’s lifetime. Size: 51 x 77 in. (129.54 x 195.58 cm) (sight) 65 7/8 × 91 ¼ × 4 ¼ in. (167.32 × 231.78 × 10.8 cm) (outer frame) Medium: Oil on canvas

https://collections.artsmia.org/art/1655/

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Garden Rose and Blue Forget Me Nots in a Vase, 1878, Gustave Caillebotte

Medium: oil,canvas

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Jean Dieuzaide Lily of the Valley with Roots 1978

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Bouquet of flowers, 1882, Édouar Manet

Medium: oil,canvas

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Blank page; verso: Sketch of Leaves, John Singer Sargent, c. 1895 - c. 1916, Harvard Art Museums: Drawings

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond Size: 25.5 x 37 cm (10 1/16 x 14 9/16 in.) Medium: Graphite on off-white wove paper

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/198013

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Crucifixion (After the altarpiece at Tölz) [Kreuzigung (nach dem Altarbild in Tölz)] for the portfolio Compositions (Kompositionen), Lovis Corinth, (1921-22), MoMA: Drawings and Prints

Given anonymously Size: plate: 11 ¾ x 9 5/16" (29.9 x 23.7 cm); sheet (irreg.): 15 7/8 x 12 5/8" (40.4 x 32.1 cm) Medium: Drypoint

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/61018

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Butcher Shop, 1897, Lovis Corinth

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“Orbits of some comets and planets.” Natural History. v.33. 1933. 

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Jetez-y un œil

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Mars sunset

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Thomas Eakins - Wrestlers (1899)

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Just perfect. A floating sauna dock with Mount Stephens on the horizon in British Columbia. Extraordinary cover photo by @jeremykoreski Additional photography by @nathanielatakora

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Study for Seated Angel at Left, “Israel and the Law,” Boston Public Library, John Singer Sargent, 1895 - 1916, Harvard Art Museums: Drawings

Footprint at upper center. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond Size: 63 x 47.8 cm (24 13/16 x 18 13/16 in.) Medium: Charcoal on heavy buff wove paper

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/198925

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Walking Woman Library (From VSW Soibelman Syndicate News Agency Archive)

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Walking Woman Library (From VSW Soibelman Syndicate News Agency Archive)

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My latest work on Zoe Wilbour and the Wilbour Family Papers, which I am processing for the Brooklyn Museum Archives, took me to the Little Compton Historical Society in Little Compton, Rhode Island. The Wilbour family played an important role in the small seaside town of Little Compton, which boasts an eponymous cemetery and the Wilbour Woods, a section of forest named after the family.

Charles Edwin Wilbour’s mother, Sarah Soule Wilbour, and his wife, Charlotte Beebee Wilbour, were both active in the Women’s Suffrage Movement in Rhode Island and New York. Sarah Soule Wilbour paid taxes in protest throughout her life, in objection to the taxation of women without attendant voting rights. Sarah was also an active member of the National Woman Suffrage Association, founded by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Letters from both Stanton and Anthony are contained in the Wilbour Family Papers here at the Brooklyn Museum (one of which is shown above the bone folder).

Charlotte Beebee Wilbour served as the president of the New York-based women’s club, Sorosis, as well as chairing the Committee on Correspondence for the Friends of Woman’s Suffrage in the State of New York. She maintained regular correspondence with Susan B. Anthony, including a letter from May 26, 1872, on long-term loan from the Newport Historical Society to the LCHS, in which Anthony describes an open bench warrant for her arrest in Ontario County, New York, where she was conducting a lecture circuit. We are delighted to find similar letters to and from Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony in the Brooklyn Museum Archives.“

Posted Kristin Iemma Photo Brooke Baldeschwiler

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Under more ordinary circumstances, the cover of our Anniversary Issue—marking 92 years—would feature some version of the monocled dandy Eustace Tilley. This year, as a response to the opening weeks of the Trump Administration, particularly the executive order on immigration, we feature John W. Tomac’s dark, unwelcoming image, “Liberty’s Flameout.”