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Spring Woods by Henry Ward Ranger, 1910
National Gallery of Art · wikidata.org
Public domain
Based on what I read, he ran a painters' colony in a little Connecticut town and got tagged as the leader of the 'American Barbizon' crowd — the idea, from what I've read, being that a quiet patch of woods was worth more than any grand mountain view.
Erisava: It's nice. I'm just not sure nice is the same as good.
Almond Blossom by Vincent van Gogh, 1890
Van Gogh Museum · wikidata.org
Public domain
Painted as a present for his brother's newborn son, who'd been given his name. They say the family hung it over their bed. The flat, bright look of it supposedly owes a lot to the Japanese prints he collected.
Erisava: That blue behind the branches is where all the action is, and I don't mind at all.
St. Mark’s in the Bowery by Childe Hassam, 1910
Yale University Art Gallery · wikidata.org
Public domain
The church is real and still standing — apparently one of the oldest in New York, with Peter Stuyvesant buried underneath it. They say the painter did a whole run of city churches around this time, one after another.
Erisava: It's all so pale it looks like the whole city's been through the wash.