ART GALLERY - Marcel Duchamp

Portrait of Chess Players. A playful man, Duchamp prodded thought about artistic processes and art marketing, not so much with words, but with actions such as dubbing a urinal art and naming it Fountain, and by "giving up" art to play chess. When he moved to Paris in 1923 he was no longer a practicing artist. Instead he played and studied chess, which he played for the rest of his life to the near exclusion of all other activity. Duchamp's obsessive fascination with chess can be traced back much earlier to the themes of his major art pieces. Read more here.

ART GALLERY - Isaak Levitan

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Isaak Il'ich Levitan [Russian Painter, 1860-1900] - Above the Eternal Peace, 1894, Oil on canvas. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
In Above Eternal Peace Levitan has created an image so beautiful and so memorable that it would be difficult to dismiss it lightly as just another landscape painting. As much as painting an image of the Russian land, Levitan evokes a mood of peace and tranquility that becomes inseparable from the idea of space and freedom, and from the universal quality of beauty and art. Benois said that Levitan "felt that Nature lives and praises the Creator," and no painting expresses this sentiment quite like Above Eternal Peace. Read more here: http://www.rollins.edu/Foreign_Lang/Russian/levitete.html

ART GALLERY - Katsushika Hokusai

Hokusai, full name Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), Japanese painter and wood engraver, born in Edo (now Tokyo). He is considered one of the outstanding figures of the Ukiyo-e, or "pictures of the floating world" (everyday life), school of printmaking. This is the famous "In the Hollow of a Wave off the Coast at Kanagawa", often known in the West as "The Wave".

This is "Mount Fuji in Clear Weather". This often also known as "Red Fuji".

ART GALLERY - Ando Hiroshige

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Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858), Japanese painter and printmaker, known especially for his landscape prints. “Fording the Sakawa River at Odwara”, From The Fifty-Three Stages of the Tokaido Road, c. 1833-1834, Woodcut, 13 5/16 x 8 5/8 inches.

ART GALLERY - Ando Hiroshige

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Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858), Japanese painter and printmaker, known especially for his landscape prints. "Plum Estate, Kameido" 1857, from "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo"; Woodblock print, 13 1/4 x 8 5/8 in; The Brooklyn Museum.

ART GALLERY - Lawrence Alma Tadema

Egyptian Chess Players by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912), Dutch painter, recognized as one of the masters of Victorian painting.

ART GALLERY - Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) - Study for Chess Players, late 1911. India ink and watercolor on lined wove paper, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

ART GALLERY - Ludwig Deutsch

Ludwig Deutsch, Austrian Orientalist artist born 1855 - died 1935 - The Chess Game, 1896, oil on panel 21 5/8 x 16 3/8 in.

ART GALLERY - Wassily Kandinsky

Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-born French Expressionist Painter, 1866-1944 - Winter Landscape Oil on cardboard. 70x97 cm Russia-Germany, 1909 - The State Hermitage Museum Digital Collection.

ART GALLERY - Wassily Kandinsky

Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-born French Expressionist Painter, 1866-1944 - Arabs I (Cemetry). 1909. Oil on card. 71.5 x 98 cm. Hamburger Kunshalle, Hamburg, Germany.

ART GALLERY - Wassily Kandinsky

Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-born French Expressionist Painter, 1866-1944 - Colorful Life, 1907. Tempera on canvas. 130 x 162.5 cm, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany

ART GALLERY - John Sloan

John Sloan [American Ashcan School Painter, 1871-1951] - The City from Greenwich Village, 1922 oil oncanvas, 66 x 85.7 cm (26 x 33 3/4 in.)

ART GALLERY - Marcus Gorenstein

Marcus Gorenstein - "Attainment", oil, 10 1/2" x 13". The water lily symbolizes the beauty and adaptiveness of flowers. It is also an ideal example of harmony in nature.

ART GALLERY - Grant Wood

Grant Wood (American Regionalist Painter, 1892-1942) -The Birthplace of HerbertHoover, West Branch, Iowa. Wood's painting of Hoover's birthplace in West Branch, Iowa, is a satirical commentary on American myth-making. The artist represented the place as the tourist attraction it had become rather than as it looked at Hoover's birth in 1874. The small cottage where the president was born attracted many visitors who paid ten cents to tour it.

ART GALLERY - Grant Wood

Grant Wood (American Regionalist Painter, 1892-1942) - American Gotihc, oil on beaverboard, 78 x 65.3 cm. Grant Wood’s American Gothic caused a stir in 1930 when it was exhibited for the first time at The Art Institute of Chicago and awarded a prize of 300 dollars.

ART GALLERY - Marcus Gorenstein

Marcus Gorenstein - "Blue Rocks", acrylic, 18" x 24".

ART GALLERY - Marcus Gorenstein

Marcus Gorenstein - "Pumpkin Delight", oil, 18" x 14".

ART GALLERY - John Sloan

John Sloan, American Painter, 1871-1951. Flowers of Spring, oil on canvas, 1924, AMICO Public Collection.

ART GALLERY - John Sloan

John Sloan, American Painter, 1871-1951. Pigeons, Oil on canvas 66.36 x 81.28 cm (26 1/8 x 32 in.) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

ART GALLERY - Richard Estes

Richard Estes, American Photorealist Painter, born Kewanee, Illinois, 1936 - Apollo, oil on canvas, 1968.