William Morris Blue Tapestry

February 12, 2015 | Art Gallery

William Morris Blue Tapestry

William Morris was an English textile designer, artist, writer, and socialist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and British Arts and Crafts Movement. He founded a design firm in partnership with the artist Edward Burne-Jones, and the poet and artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti which profoundly influenced the decoration of churches and houses into the early 20th century. As an author, illustrator and medievalist, he helped to establish the modern fantasy genre.
Art by William Morris
Beautiful blue tapestry with birds, leaves, flowers and petals
Movement: Arts and Crafts / Art Nouveau
Artistic floral vintage bird flowers pattern foliage fine art.

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William Morris Rose Design

February 9, 2015 | Art Gallery

William Morris Rose Design

William Morris was an English textile designer, artist, writer, and socialist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and British Arts and Crafts Movement. He founded a design firm in partnership with the artist Edward Burne-Jones, and the poet and artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti which profoundly influenced the decoration of churches and houses into the early 20th century. As an author, illustrator and medievalist, he helped to establish the modern fantasy genre.
Roses pattern flower textile design with birds,tulips, foliage and petals, printed cotton
Movement: Arts and Crafts / Art Nouveau

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Ernst Haeckel Sea Anemones

June 25, 2015 | Art Gallery

Ernst Haeckel Sea Anemones Marine Vintage Illustration

The 49th plate from Ernst Haeckel’s natural history book ‘Kunstformen der Natur’ (Art Forms In Nature) of 1904, showing various sea anemones classified as Actiniae.
Victorian era science illustration in lush colors.
Sea anemones are a group of water-dwelling, predatory animals of the order Actiniaria. They are named for the anemone, a terrestrial flower. As cnidarians, sea anemones are related to corals, jellyfish, tube-dwelling anemones, and Hydra.
Movement: Art Nouveau, Art Deco
Artistic scientific underwater animal colorful pattern fine art featuring beautiful sea creatures.

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Vincent Van Gogh Olive Orchard

June 30, 2015 | Art Gallery

Vincent van Gogh Olive Orchard Fine Art Painting
Vincent van Gogh painted at least 18 paintings of olive trees, mostly in Saint-Remy in 1889. At his own request, he lived at an asylum there from May 1889 through May 1890 painting the gardens of the asylum and, when he had permission to venture outside its walls, nearby olive trees, cypresses and wheat fields.

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Maxfield Parrish Morning Spring

July 26, 2015 | Art Gallery

Maxfield Parrish Morning, Spring
1922 Vintage Fine Art Painting
Maxfield Parrish was an American painter and illustrator. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he began drawing for his own amusement as a child. His father was an engraver and landscape artist, and young Parrish’s parents encouraged his talent. He attended Haverford College and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He entered into an artistic career that lasted for more than half a century, and which helped shape the Golden Age of illustration and the future of American visual arts.