Sunshine In The Drawing Room

We begin today with Waterloo Bridge: Effect Of Sunlight In The Fog, a 1903 painting by Monet.

Until the Gallery had acquired this painting in recent years, I hadn't heard of the artist. Vilhelm Hammershoi was a Danish Impressionist who painted Sunshine In The Drawing Room in 1910. His wife is a regular subject in his work.

Max Klinger created this bust, Friedrich Nietzsche, around 1904.

Gustav Klimt painted Hope I in 1903. Its subject, a naked woman who is heavily pregnant, commands attention. The accompanying display speaks volumes about it, particularly the final sentence. The Gallery has a couple of other works by Klimt on extended loan nearby, but they are not to be photographed.

I stepped into a nearby room with contemporary art. This is Court, a 2023 work by Tim Whiten.

I close out today with Forest, circa 1902-04, by Paul Cezanne.

Masters Of The Impressionist World

We begin today with Claude and Renee, a 1903 painting by August Renoir, depicting his son and the family nurse. The Impressionist style really speaks to me.

Another work by an Impressionist master. Claude Monet painted Rock Needle Seen Through The Porte d'Aval, Etretat in 1886.

Washerwomen, Near Champagne is by Alfred Sisley, dating to 1882.

Camille Pissarro painted The Stone Bridge In Rouen, Dull Weather in 1896.

Road At Auvers-sur-Oise dates to circa 1873-74, and is by Paul Cezanne.

Paul Gauguin painted The Quarries Of Le Chou Near Pontoise in 1882.

Fate, Love, A Letter, And Loch Lomond

Back into the series again. Souvenir Of Loch Lomond is a dramatic painting by Gustave Dore, dating to 1875.

The Partie Carree is an 1870 work by James Tissot.

Jean-Leon Gerome painted Portrait Of A Woman in 1870.

The Letter is another Tissot painting, circa 1878.

Here we have another work by Dore. This sculpture is Fate And Love, dating to 1877 as a model and cast two years later.

The City Atlas is dated circa 1889, by Sidney Starr.

Edgar Degas painted At The Cafe-Concert circa 1879-84.

Portrait Of A Woman (After A 16th Century Florentine Drawing) dates to 1859-59, by Degas.

City Daily Photo Theme Day: Very Small

The first day of each month is a theme day for members of City Daily Photo. For May, that theme is Very Small. See how other members of the group are interpreting this theme right here.

I start with a couple of shots from the Canadian Museum of Nature back in January- photographs taken in the Arctic Gallery of lifeforms, algae and phytoplankton. They are very small indeed- the width or twice the width of a human hair.

Also in the same gallery in the Museum, these are items recovered from the Franklin Expedition- the ill fated 19th century British voyage under John Franklin in search of the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic. It's been only in recent years that the two ships Erebus and Terror were found.

Another small thing, and in the same museum, but this time in the Earth Gallery. This is a piece of the Moon.

Further along in the Earth Gallery, this small specimen. Amber is fossilized tree resin, and this one preserves ancient insects.

And further along, three examples of the building blocks of sedimentary rock, and just how small they can get.

Further along in the Museum, in the Water Gallery, this jar contains preserved krill- tiny creatures that are the favourite food of the blue whale, the largest animal on Earth.

These are from home. As the expression goes, my people were Dutch. These small wooden shoes are fridge magnets on my fridge, from a Dutch shop out in Nepean. I stop by regularly for spiced Gouda cheese, which is one of life's pleasures.

I've got another one that's a keychain, usually hanging on my roll top desk at home.

These two are also keychains, and kept in one of the cubbies of that desk. These are actually Lego. I relate to Eeyore.