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"California Redwood Grove" by Gunnar Mauritz Widforss, 1925. Watercolour on paper, 57.15 x 45.72 cm (22.5 x 18 inches). Swedish-American artist 1879-1934.

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Oil on canvas paintings by Asher Brown Durand. American artist 1796-1886. Along with Thomas Cole & Thomas Doughty, he was a founding member of the Hudson River School, an American art movement of the mid 1800s. ~ The Beeches, 1845. 153.4 x 122.2 cm. In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. Image via Wikipedia. ~ The Catskills, 1859. 158.8 x 128.3 cm. In the collection of The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. ~ A Natural Monarch, 1853. 58.4 x 46.9 cm (23 x 18.5 inches). Private collection. Image via Wikipedia.

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Kilchurn Castle by Kyle Bonallo (ig: @kylebonallo)

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Uluru in the rain

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Carlos Díaz (Catalan, b. 1968, Barcelona, Spain) - Corner Lights, 2023, Paintings: Oil on Wood

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2024 Italia, Napoli, Sophia Loren

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Vivian Maier photo. Untitled, 1954. Boy in New York City with the "Minute Tavern" at Sixty Second Street in the background.

Gelatin silver print, printed later. “Vivian Maier (1926 – 2009) was an American street photographer whose massive, unseen body of work came to light when it was purchased from an auction in Chicago in 2007. Born in New York City, Maier spent some of her youth in France and then worked in Chicago as a nanny and caregiver for most of her life.” ~ Howard Greenberg Gallery.

Maloof Collection / Howard Greenberg Gallery.

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Vivian Maier photo. New York City, 1953.

Gelatin silver print, printed later. “Vivian Maier (1926 – 2009) was an American street photographer whose massive, unseen body of work came to light when it was purchased from an auction in Chicago in 2007. Born in New York City, Maier spent some of her youth in France and then worked in Chicago as a nanny and caregiver for most of her life.” ~ Howard Greenberg Gallery.

Maloof Collection / Howard Greenberg Gallery.

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Vivian Maier photo. New York City, circa 1952. Gelatin silver print, printed later. "Vivian Maier (1926 – 2009) was an American street photographer whose massive, unseen body of work came to light when it was purchased from an auction in Chicago in 2007. Born in New York City, Maier spent some of her youth in France and then worked in Chicago as a nanny and caregiver for most of her life." ~ Howard Greenberg Gallery. Maloof Collection / Howard Greenberg Gallery.

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Vivian Maier photo. New York City, 1954. "Vivian Maier (1926 – 2009) was an American street photographer whose massive, unseen body of work came to light when it was purchased from an auction in Chicago in 2007. Born in New York City, Maier spent some of her youth in France and then worked in Chicago as a nanny and caregiver for most of her life." ~ Howard Greenberg Gallery. Maloof Collection / Howard Greenberg Gallery.

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Piazza Grande residential complex, by Aldo Loris Rossi (1979-1989).

Naples, Italy.

© Roberto Conte (2021)

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"The Mystery of the Hut" by Gennady Mironov (Henadzi Mironau), 2019. Oil on canvas, 50 x 60 cm. Belarusian artist born 1961. First image via Singulart. WikiArt has this differently coloured version (and no title):

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"Touch" by Ukrainian photographer Aliza Razell.

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Artwork by Nathaniel @femalepentimento on Instagram, 3 Jun '25. Artist's words: "when i align myself with incredible healing the planet responds, in unison"

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"Tulip and Tiger" by Rob Evans, 2018. Pastel on museum board, 9.5 x 13 inches. American artist born 1959.

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Wood Engraving Wednesday

PETER HOLLAND

This engraving of Magnolias by English artist Peter Holland (1915-2004), printed from the original block, is from 2020 Vision: Nineteen Wood Engravers, One Collector, and the Artists Who Inspired Them, compiled and introduced by collector Nigel Hamway, edited by English wood engraver Peter Lawrence, and printed in 2020 by Patrick Randle’s Nomad Letterpress at the Whittington Press in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, in an edition of 340 copies for the 100th anniversary of the Society of Wood Engravers. 

Holland himself never exhibited or sold a wood engraving in his life. He was an architect by profession who worked for the Ministry of Works. He taught himself wood engraving in his spare time, producing over 80 finely executed, closely observed images, mainly of the natural world. He was deeply inspired by his friendships with master engravers John Farleigh and Monica Poole. Holland was also the father of the editor of 2020 Vision Nigel Hamway's oldest friend, and inspired Hamway to begin his collection of wood engravings. Hamway included this print in the book as an homage to his mentor and because it is Holland's own homage to the work of Farleigh and Poole. Peter Holland's son Paul writes:

My father continued to engrave until late in his life and loved going to the shop of T N Lawrence in Bleeding Heart Yard to buy blocks. He was a prolific sketcher and sought inspiration for his engravings from his drawings, as well as the cottage and its beautiful garden where he and his wife Mavis lived for over fifty years.

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