Hanging scroll, ink, colour and gold on silk, 1768, by Maruyama Ōkyo, 1733 – 1795 In my last year of teaching at a school in Zimbabwe, a...

Oil on canvas, 1915, by Edvard Munch (1863 - 1944) As both Marc and Corinth were associated with German Expressionism and because he was...

Oil on canvas, 1904, by Lovis Corinth (1858 – 1925) The German artist Lovis Corinth was later to become another victim of Nazi censorship...

Oil on canvas, 1911, by Franz Marc (1880 – 1916) There is an entire gallery at the Fogg Museum which is designated to “Art in Germany...

Oil on Canvas, 1929, by Charles Sheeler (1883 - 1965) I keep coming back to this painting, hanging in the modernist section of the...

Lithograph on off-white wove paper, 1829, by Eugène Delacroix (1798 – 1863) I had heard of Delacroix mainly as one of the master painters...

Oil on canvas, 1876, by James Abbot McNeill Whistler (1834 – 1903) This dark, brooding, diffuse, near monochromatic canvas may seem an...

Bed Oak and pine veneered with mahogany; Ebonized pine; patinated bronze; gilded metal; modern upholstery, c. 1810, probably by Thomas...

Oil on canvas, c. 1610, by Orazio Gentileschi, (1563 – 1639) For the week of Christmas, a scene of the nativity. This is one of several...

Oil on canvas, 1869, by Jean Frederic Bazille (1841 - 1870) I was drawn to this painting primarily because it vividly echoes one of the...

Microetching on photographic paper, 2007, by Jean Livet, Ryan Draft and Jeff Lichtman Coming across this lithograph, one immediately...

Oil on canvas, 1901, by Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973) Of the several Picassos hung in the same space, Mother and Child is by far the most...

Oil on canvas, 1897, by George Cope (1855 – 1929) There is something immediately very disarming about Hanging Woodcock which also invites...

Oil on canvas, 1903 by John Singer Sargent (1856 – 1925) Higginson is described by the curator as being a Civil War Veteran and a banker,...