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Rugged individualism powered by $461,000 in farm subsidies. www.salon.com/2015/01/22/jo...

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Henry James saw in John Singer Sargent's work 'the quality in light of which he sees deep into his subject, undergoes it, absorbs it, becomes patient with it.' So it is with this picture (1878) we can sense him racing to paint before the setting sun was lost behind the horizon.

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'Number, please?' (1941) In the year Edward Wadsworth painted this work, he was commissioned by the ICI company to produce a number of paintings. It's possible these commissions were intended to encourage women’s participation in the war effort.

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Good Day! Castlebay, Barra, (Barraigh) by Douglas Percy Bliss 1933 Oil on Canvas (Currently for sale with Liss Llewellyn)

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'Industry.' (1923) The youngest of the early American Precisionists, Preston Dickinson was credited in 1917 with combining 'technical precision and intellectual force to a degree hardly approached by any of his companions.'

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Holy Island, Northumberland, by north-east photographer Rachel Riley.

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When Sorolla painted 'Niña en mar plateado,' in 1909, it was amongst the most luminous and freely handled works he had produced. In 1906, the newspaper 'La Nación' had written: 'Sorolla is one of the glories of Valencia...one of the glories of modern Spain.'

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It is #SundayMorning once again so it would be churlish of me not to show this one as usual! This is "Sunday Morning, Farringdon Road" by Cecil Osborne from 1929. It is in the collection at Brighton Museums. #CecilOsborne #EastLondonGroup #FarringdonRoad

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My thanks to you all for your support here over the past six months: yesterday we reached the point of having 1000 followers, which is lovely. By way of a "thank you", here's a great favourite of mine: "Stratford" by Walter Steggles from the joint show at Lefevre with his brother Harold in 1938.

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Good Day! Gunhills, Windley by Douglas Percy Bliss 1946 -52 Oil on Canvas (Tate)

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Ivy Cottage in the Spring (Windley) by Douglas Percy Bliss 1946 Pencil and Watercolour on Paper (Private Collection)

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Haircut, c.1930, by James Purdy, 1900-72 (Gallery Oldham). #NorthernArt

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'Legal experts, including Eric Columbus, a former litigator for the January 6 select committee, suggested Trump does not have the power to fire Sajet, since the gallery is part of the Smithsonian, which is not run by the executive branch.'

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'Eggs.' (1912) Horace Mann Livens studied with Vincent Van Gogh in Antwerp in 1885, becoming a close friend. Van Gogh wrote to Livens to discuss his theories on colour: 'I often think about you. You will remember that I liked your work, colour, your ideas on art and literature.'

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Ploughing in glass 💗

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Good Day! Windsor by Arthur Streeton 1904 Oil on Canvas (National Gallery of Victoria)

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Elon's legacy ranges from gutting cancer research to setting in motion millions of deaths from starvation or disease. I'll be pushing for Congress to hold Elon & DOGE accountable—for every act of corruption, every disastrous consequence, and every law they have broken.

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I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x convicted felon & adjudicated rapist Trump did.

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It's rare to see work by Kathleen Rowles, the 'Coming Thunderstorm,' (c1925) is at the Graves Gallery in Sheffield. Much of Rowles' work was influenced by Philip Wilson Steer; this painting relates to his 'Boulogne Sands,' which was completed in 1891.

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City of London from Hampstead by Algernon Newton RA (1880-1968) Oil on Canvas (Private Collection)

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Analysis by Glenn Kessler: There is no dispute that people have died because the Trump administration abruptly suspended foreign aid. One might quibble over how many people have died. But you can’t call it a lie.

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Casar: "This congressman knows that this is the biggest Medicaid cut in American history. What was discovered right before they passed the bill is that this is also the biggest Medicare cut in American history. So we can't let these Republican members of Congress go & lie to their own constituents."

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Casar: "The only way to push back on this is for Democrats to be really clear that if we win back a majority, we aren't just going to let bygones be bygones. We have to go and investigate who paid Trump, who paid Musk, who made money off of these pardons because that is really serious."

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When Americans raised concerns about RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine views, he said he was "not gonna take away vaccines from anybody." But now he's taking them away from millions of mommas and babies. Vaccine recommendations should be based on science, not RFK Jr.'s political agenda.

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Europe and/or the UN should deploy troops into Ukraine and occupy eastern Ukraine to force a ceasefire, to then oversee the removal of all Russian troops.

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Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil.

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Georg Friedrich Kersting depicts a young woman sewing in the light of a lamp (1823). The sole light source, the three candles of the Bouilotte lamp placed at the centre of the composition, is casting a glow that progressively dims the further it spreads out in the room.

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Otto Dix made this portrait of 'Hugo Erfurth with his Dog,' in 1926 by which time he was regularly making use of egg tempera on panel. It was a technique that allowed him to define the smallest details in a way comparable to the German masters of the 16th century.

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The concern over antisemitism allegedly motivating the federal defunding of science at Harvard "is patently disingenuous, given Mr. Trump’s sympathy for Holocaust deniers and Hitler fans. The obvious motivation is to cripple civil society institutions,” writes the Harvard professor Steven Pinker.

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Full court press, people. Call them. Repeatedly.

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It is Alcuin's feast day! I thought I'd share one of my favorite Alcuin texts, his Grammar, which takes the form of a dialogue between a Frank and a Saxon. The text opens, "There were in the school of Master Albinus (sc. Alcuin) two boys, a Frank and a Saxon, who had very recently... 🕯️🧵

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Madonna, w/ rather miniature but otherwise sweet child. Check out that perspective ledge at bottom — pretty good for 1300! By Duccio, whose day was today.

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Get thee hence, Satan! Christ spurns devil's offer of some really A+ cities in return for just a little worship in scene from Duccio's Maestà altarpiece, 1311.

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On my way to (and through) Ravilious territory. . .

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'Early Morning, Newlyn.' (1927) Dod Procter was a prominent member of the Newlyn School in Cornwall and in the year this work was made, her painting 'Morning,' was awarded ‘picture of the year’ at the Royal Academy. It was later bought for the nation by the Daily Mail newspaper.

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Marriage portrait: young couple, each wonderfully characterized in 1615 by Jacob Jordaens, who was born on this day in 1593.

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From the altar, the crucifix tilts forward & shoots some stigmata at Catherine of Siena. Friends are freaking out! Painted in 1514 by Domenico Beccafumi of Siena, whose day is today.

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Good Day! The Merry Month of May by James Lynch Egg Tempera on Gesso coated Wood Panel (Private Collection)

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May Day by Dame Laura Knight RA (1877-1970) Oil on Canvas (Private Collection)

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Vladeck as usual is exactly right. I’d go one step further. Stopping lower courts from issuing nationwide injunctions would efffectively legalize, as it were, illegal executive orders, at least until overturned by the Supreme Court. Scary that five justices are contemplating it.

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'Snack Time in a Factory.' Roland Pitchforth's work is not widely known. His interiors generally adhere more to the figurative than to the abstract and have a sense of rhythm and life through colour and line. This picture is from 1941.

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