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Reading by the Window Charles James Lewis (1830 - 1892) “Morning brings back the heroic ages. There was something cosmical about it; a standing advertisement, till forbidden, of the everlasting vigor and fertility of the world. The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour. Then there is least somnolence in us; and for an hour, at least, some part of us awakes which slumbers all the rest of the ...
A wealthy American living in Paris, Romaine Brooks had the freedom to paint whatever and however she wanted. Don't let her sober, 1923 Self-Portrait fool you — Smithsonian curator Virginia Mecklenburg says in the 1910s and 1920s, Brooks and her circle of friends had plenty of fun in Paris. Twentieth century painter Romaine Brooks introduces ...
I love Holland by Adrian Sommeling
El Chalten, Los Glaciares National Park, Patagonia, Argentina
Percy Robert Craft (1856-1934) Cornish Village