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Philip McCouat writes in-depth articles on art, history and social change in the Journal of Art in Society at http://artinsociety.com
JUST PUBLISHED! Our latest article features a painting by an artist who in recent times has achieved extraordinary fame after having been forgotten for almost 300 years ~ it’s Georges de La Tour’s ‘The Musicians Quarrel’ and you can read all about it at www.artinsociety.com/emerging-fro...
Coloured birds with bluebells, cornflowers and even a bird’s nest decorate this musical stave drawn in ink and coloured chalks by Edward Burne-Jones in the 1880s ~ included in a letter by the artist to young family friend Katie Lewis www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
In 1898, before he became really famous, Gustav Klimt was commissioned to paint this almost spectral, posthumous portrait of 13-year-old Trude Steiner. The painting was seized from the Steiner family by the Nazis in 1938 and auctioned in 1941. It has not been seen since
Cartoonist Charles Barsotti understands justice ~ and dogs (New Yorker, December 1987)
Doreen Fletcher evocatively chronicled the ordinary life of East London for decades, unheralded until being discovered by the “gentle author” of Spitalfields Life. Here’s some of her pencil sketches of her family home, done in her teens & early twenties spitalfieldslife.com/2020/06/09/d...
A refuge in the wilderness ~ woodblock print artist Toshi Yoshida took a walk into the forest and this is what he saw (Sacred Grove, 1941)
Admiring the modest quiet of 20th century Japanese painter Gentaro Koito’s still-life ‘Poppies’ (1937) National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo www.momat.go.jp/en/collectio...
The effects of wind and sunshine on a wide blue sea ~ there's no need for people in US impressionist Childe Hassam’s West Wind, Appledore (1904)
John Singer Sargent demonstrates his bravura technique in this charcoal sketch of art historian Claire Stuart Wortley, drawn in a single sitting at his studio in Tite Street, Chelsea 1923
British artist James Durden depicts his family at their home overlooking Derwent Water ~ bathed in an idyllic dappled light, boy in cricket whites looks on as his elegant mother and sister sit down for afternoon tea (Summer in Cumberland, 1925) collections.manchesterartgallery.org/collections/...
