In Hopper’s realism, American modern life was always defined by introspective scenes of everyday life… (Edward Hopper, “Cape Cod Morning,” 1950, oil on canvas, in the Smithsonian American Art Museum collection, in Washington, DC; americanart.si.edu/artwork/cape...)

This work was part of a 2021 retrospective of the artist’ work by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston… (Ekua Holmes, “Golden,” 2009, a mixed media collage, in the artist’s personal collection; www.wbur.org/news/2021/08...)

Franklin was a founding member of the Group of Seven, the Canadian collective of painters who created modernist depictions of the nation’s wilderness… (Franklin Carmichael, “Autumn Hillside,” 1920, oil on canvas, in the Art Gallery of Ontario collection; commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fr...)

Corrodi’s got famous with his use of Romanticism’s lighting in specific Middle Eastern backdrops… (Hermann David Salomon Corrodi, “The Kiosk of Trajan on the Banks of the Nile, Egypt,” ca. 1905, oil on canvas, at the Ary Jan Art Gallery collection, in Paris; it.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Co...)

O’Keeffe said, “One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.” This work came out of her late-night walks… (Georgia O’Keeffe, “New York Street with Moon,” 1925, oil on canvas, in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museu Nacional collection; www.museothyssen.org/en/collectio...)

Nelson painted this while working for the Works Progress Administration, a New Deal program that supported artists during the Great Depression… (Carl Gustaf Nelson, “Central Park,” 1934, oil on canvas, in the Smithsonian American Art Museum collection; www.si.edu/object/centr...)

Monet painted several coastal scenes around Trouville in the summer of 1870 shortly after marrying his wife Camille Doncieux… (Claude Monet, “Entrance to the Port of Trouville,” 1870, oil on canvas, in the Museum of Fine Arts collection, in Budapest; commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cl...)

Hassam was a leading member of the Lyme Art Colony, and this church became a frequent and central motif in his work… (Childe Hassam, “Church at Old Lyme, Connecticut,” 1905, oil on canvas, in the Buffalo AKG Museum collection; buffaloakg.org/artworks/190...)

Onderdonk was a Texan Impressionist painter known for sweeping landscapes of bluebonnet fields. Here he captures the warmth of changing seasons… (Robert Julian Onderdonk, “October Landscape,” n.d., in private collection; www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...)

Sometimes art is pretty straightforward - like the intersection of Columbus Avenue and Appleton Street in Boston’s South end, on a wet day… (Childe Hassam, “Rainy Day, Boston,” 1885, oil on canvas, in the Toledo Museum of Art collection; emuseum.toledomuseum.org/objects/5498...)

“A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfect plain, you end up boring people.” Edgar Degas, in Jeanniot’s Memories of Degas, 1933 (Edgar Degas, “In the Woods,” ca. 1870-73, in private collection; eclecticlight.co/2017/09/12/e...)

A Danish realist painter, Monsted is best known for his detailed landscape of rural life, with scenes that embodied the essence of a region... (Peder Mørk Mønsted, “Courtyard interior from Blaabæk Watermill,” 1921, oil on canvas, in private collection; www.pinterest.com/pin/71600204...)

Bugatti’s birthday (b. 1884) was last Friday. The Italian sculptor was known for his carefully hand-carved wildlife sculptures… (Rembrandt Bugatti, “Growling Panther,” 1907; sladmore.com/artists/remb...)

In the 1930s, struggling to make ends meet during the Depression, Pollock submitted his only mosaic to the WPA Federal Art Project. His entry was rejected… (Jackson Pollock, “Untitled CR1048,” ca. 1938-41; news.artnet.com/art-world/ja...)

The centerpiece of the Library of Congress’ Great Hall is the Minerva mosaic depicting the goddess of wisdom, learning, and civilization… (Elihu Vedder, “Minerva of Peace,” 1897, in the Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress, Washington, DC; vastphotos.com/photo/librar...)

MOMA’s “Nilima Sheikh: Fractured Skies” exhibition opened on Sep. 27. Her work weaves landscape, history, poetry and political memory… (Nilima Sheikh, “Home, Land 2,” 2024, mixed tempera and collage on paper, in the Sunita and Vijay Choraria private collection; www.moma.org/calendar/exh...)

A student of Bouguereau and Cabanel, Collin painted still-lives, portraits and genre pieces, rendering his subjects en plein air… (Louis-Joseph-Raphaël Collin, “Morning,” 1884, oil on canvas, in the Philadelphia Museum of Art collection; www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...)

Lord Tennyson’s poem inspired this Pre-Raphaelite work, as clues foretell her fate: swallows fly low as the wind blows her hair and extinguishes the candles… (John William Waterhouse, “The Lady of Shalott,” 1888, oil on canvas, in the Tate Britain collection; www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks...)

This print was part of Utagawa’s One Hundred Famous Views of Edo series. By then he had been a woodblock print artist for 32 years… (Utagawa Hiroshige, “Maple Trees at Mama, Tekona Shrine, and Linked Bridge,” 1857, woodblock print; www.sothebys.com/en/articles/...)

Hudson River School painters thrived on painting Autumns. Here’s Moran’s vibrant autumnal woodland landscape in Pennsylvania… (Thomas Moran, “Cresheim Glen, Wissahickon, Autumn,” 1864, oil on canvas, in private collection; www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...)

A member of the Hudson River School, Bierstadt is known for his sweeping, highly idealized depictions of the American West… (Albert Bierstadt, “Mount St. Helens, Columbia River, Oregon,” 1889, in private collection; www.bonhams.com/auction/2547...)

This work is part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition, “Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous” which opened on Oct. 4… (Lee Krasner, “Bald Eagle,” 1955, oil, paper, and canvas collage on linen, in the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao collection; www.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/en/exhibitio...)

Klimt applies thin, layered oil paints with dabs and strokes to create shimmering, multi-colored textures for leaves, bark, and ground… (Gustav Klimt, “Beech Grove,” 1902, oil on canvas, in the Galerie Neue Meister collection, in Dresden; www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...)

Parrish’s works are distinct for their saturated hues and idealized neo-classical imagery. Most of them are in private collections… (Maxfield Parrish, “Autumn Brook,” 1948, oil on board, in private collection; www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...)

Created shortly before his death from pneumonia in 1906, at the age of 67, Cezanne’s late landscapes reflect nature’s raw energy… (Paul Cezanne, “Chateau Noir,” 1904-05, oil on canvas, in private collection; commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pa...)

Autumn in the Southwest is sparse, but still glorious… (Maynard Dixon, “Lazy Autumn,” 1943, oil on canvas, in the Brigham Young University Museum of Art collection; moa.byu.edu/artwork-of-t...)

The Brooklyn Museum’s “Cézanne to Modigliani” exhibition opened on Oct. 2, displaying stellar modern art works from the Pearlman Collection… (Vincent van Gogh, “Tarrascon Stagecoach,” 1888, oil on canvas, in the Pearlman Collection; www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/...)

Celebrating Henry Lerolle’s birthday (b. 1848) with his most important painting, set in the choir loft of the Saint-François-Xavier church in Paris… (Henry Lerolle, “The Organ Rehearsal,” 1885, oil on canvas, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection; www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...)

Matisse painted this six months after the outbreak of WWII. Art, he told a friend, kept him balanced in light of the tragedy unfolding beyond his studio… (Henri Matisse, “Interior with an Etruscan Vase,” 1940, in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection; www.clevelandart.org/art/1952.153)

St. Lousian Cornoyer is best known for his park scenes seen through the atmospheric reflections of rain or the soft calm of a snowy blanket… (Paul Cornoyer, “The Plaza after the Rain,” 1908, oil on canvas, in the Saint Louis Art Museum collection; www.slam.org/collection/o...)