Artist: Thomas Barker Of Bath (1769 - 1847)
Nationality: British
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Media: Painting,Printmaking
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Biography:
Although born in Pontypool, Thomas Barker was known as “Barker of Bath” as he spent most of his career working in that city. He produced mostly landscapes and genre scenes that were influenced by Gainsborough. Barker enjoyed a fairly successful career until just before his death in 1847.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (100)
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Thomas Barker of Bath Wooded Landscape oil on canvas 1790
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Artist: Benjamin West Title: Portrait of Diana Mary Barker Date: 1766 Medium: oil on canvas
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John Barker (1707-1787), 1786 Sir Joshua Reynolds (British, 1723-1792)Oil on canvas; 68 1/4 x 47
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Anthony Raine Barker Interior Of A Cathedral Color Lithograp 1913
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Thomas Barker - Small Landscape n.d. oil on wood Smithsonian American Art Museum American
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Thomas Barker - Shepherd Boys and Dog Sheltering from a Storm c. 1789-1790 oil on paper on canv National Gallery of Art British
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William Strang Portrait of Granville Barker Drypoint 19th - 20th century
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Yasuo Kuniyoshi - After the Bath 1923 oil on canvas Portland Museum of Art American
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Gustave Caillebotte - Man at his Bath 1884 oil on canvas The National Gallery, London French
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Mary Cassatt - The Bath 1890-91 drypoint and aquatin The Art Institute of Chicago American
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Jean Baptiste Joseph Pater - The Bath 1730-36 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art French
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Edgar Degas - After the Bath c. 1890-93 Pastel on tracing pa Norton Simon Museum French
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Thomas Rowlandson The Bath of Venus watercolor 18th - 19th century
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Thomas Rowlandson Scene at Bath watercolor 18th - 19th century
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Thomas Rowlandson Bath Races Etching with watercolor 18th - 19th century
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Paul Cezanne - Bath of the Courtesan 1880 watercolor and penci Arkansas Arts Center French
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Edgar Hilaire Germain Degas - The Morning Bath 1892-95 pastel on tan wove p The Art Institute of Chicago French
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Mary Cassatt - The Child's Bath 1893 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago American
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Francois Clouet - A Lady in Her Bath c. 1571 oil on panel National Gallery of Art French
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Edgar Degas - Woman Drying Herself After the Bath 1876-77 Pastel over monotype Norton Simon Museum French
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Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas - After the Bath, Woman drying herself c. 1890-1895 pastel on wove paper The National Gallery, London French
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Balthus - Nude Coming Out from her Bath 1955 Pencil Arkansas Arts Center French
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Edgar Degas - After the Bath, Woman Drying Her Hair c. 1895 charcoal on yellow t Kimbell Art Museum French
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Thomas Worlidge The Burgomaster 18th century
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John Hilling - Burning of Old South Church, Bath, Maine c. 1854 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Ferdinand Becker Etchings after Nature (Bath, 1821) book with 75 etchings, mostly two to a page circa 1821
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Thomas Worlidge John Evelyn 18th century
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Thomas Worlidge Christ healing the sick 1758
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Artist: artist unknown Title: Leaving the Bath Date: 1879 - 1880 Medium: drypoint and aquatint
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Thomas Worlidge The Death of the Virgin Etching 18th century
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Thomas Worlidge Portrait of Burgomaster Six Etching 18th century
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Arthur William Heintzelman The Sun Bath Etching 1919
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Ferdinand Becker Untitled ( architectural ruins), plate no. 19 in the book, Etchings after Nature (Bath, 1821) Etching circa 1821
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Thomas Worlidge The Installation of the Earl of Westmorland in the Theater at Oxford etching 1761
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Thomas Worlidge The Installation of the Earl of Westmoreland in the Theater at Oxford etching 1761
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Thomas Worlidge [Christ healing the sick] etching 18th century
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Sandro Botticelli, Italian (Florentine), 1444-45–1510 Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist about 1480-85
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Unidentified [(No.3) Devil in the bath tub] color woodcut 1894
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Thomas Rowlandson Doctor Syntax Present at a Coffee-house Quarrel at Bath, plate opposite page 180 in the book The Second Tour of Dr. Syntax, In Search of Consolation [by William Combe] (London:R. Ackermann, 1820), vol. 2 (of 3) Color aquatint with han
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Cadwallader Washburn After Bath Etching/Drypoint 19th - 20th century
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Paul Cadmus The Bath Etching 1953
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Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet Susanne At The Bath Engraving 1757
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Jacopo d"Arcangelo del Sellaio, Italian, about 1441-1493 Story of Psyche Tempera and oil on panel
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Jean Dambrun Susanna at the bath engraving 18th - 19th century
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Thomas Worlidge The Installation of the Earl of Westmoreland in the Theater at Oxford pen and black ink with gray wash 1761
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Helen Hyde The Bath Color woodcut 1905
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Ito Shinsui After the Bath Color woodcut 1917
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Helen Hyde The Bath color woodcut 1905
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Stefano Mulinari [Susanna at the Bath?] 18th century
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Peter A. Rysbraeck Landscape, Dianna at the Bath Etching 17th - 18th century
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Wenceslas Hollar Arthur Lake, Bishop of Bath and Wells 1640
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Louis Simon Lempereur Venus at the Bath Engraving 18th - 19th century
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Warren B. Davis After the Bath Drypoint 19th - 20th century
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Ernest S. Lumsden Bath Court, No. 2 Drypoint 1905
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William Strang The Bath Chiaroscuro Woodcut 1904
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Artist: Amoy Title: Chinoiserie Foot Bath Date: 19th century Medium: glazed ceramic Dimensions: H.8-1/2 x
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"Barna da Siena", Italian (Sienese), active in mid–14th century The Mystical Marriage of Saint Catherine
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Carlo Antonio Porporati Il Bagno di Leda (Leda's bath), after Correggio Engraving 18th century
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Robert Sargent Austin The Bath Tub lithograph 1930
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Thomas Worlidge A Select Collection of Drawings from Curious Antique Gems (London: printed by Dryden Leach, for M. Worlidgeä, 1768), vol. 2 book with 103 etchings 1768
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Thomas Worlidge A Select Collection of Drawings from Curious Antique Gems (London: printed by Dryden Leach, for M. Worlidgeä, 1768), vol. 1 book with 80 etchings 1768
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Eisho Two Women Relaxing After a Bath color woodcut with hand coloring circa 1795
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Thomas Worlidge Plate 100 in the book A Select Collection of Drawings from Curious Antique Gems (London: printed by Dryden Leach, for M. Worlidgeä, 1768), vol. 2 etching 1768
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Thomas Worlidge Plate 2 in the book A Select Collection of Drawings from Curious Antique Gems (London: printed by Dryden Leach, for M. Worlidgeä, 1768), vol. 2 etching 1768
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Thomas Worlidge Plate 101 in the book A Select Collection of Drawings from Curious Antique Gems (London: printed by Dryden Leach, for M. Worlidgeä, 1768), vol. 2 etching 1768
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Thomas Worlidge Plate 1 in the book A Select Collection of Drawings from Curious Antique Gems (London: printed by Dryden Leach, for M. Worlidgeä, 1768), vol. 2 etching 1768
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Thomas Worlidge Plate 80 in the book A Select Collection of Drawings from Curious Antique Gems (London: printed by Dryden Leach, for M. Worlidgeä, 1768), vol. 1 etching 1768
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Thomas Worlidge Plate 79 in the book A Select Collection of Drawings from Curious Antique Gems (London: printed by Dryden Leach, for M. Worlidgeä, 1768), vol. 1 etching 1768
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Thomas Worlidge Plate 78 in the book A Select Collection of Drawings from Curious Antique Gems (London: printed by Dryden Leach, for M. Worlidgeä, 1768), vol. 1 etching 1768
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Thomas Worlidge Plate 15 in the book A Select Collection of Drawings from Curious Antique Gems (London: printed by Dryden Leach, for M. Worlidgeä, 1768), vol. 2 etching 1768
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Thomas Worlidge Plate 77 in the book A Select Collection of Drawings from Curious Antique Gems (London: printed by Dryden Leach, for M. Worlidgeä, 1768), vol. 1 etching 1768
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Thomas Worlidge Plate 76 in the book A Select Collection of Drawings from Curious Antique Gems (London: printed by Dryden Leach, for M. Worlidgeä, 1768), vol. 1 etching 1768
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Thomas Worlidge Plate 75 in the book A Select Collection of Drawings from Curious Antique Gems (London: printed by Dryden Leach, for M. Worlidgeä, 1768), vol. 1 etching 1768
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Thomas Worlidge Plate 74 in the book A Select Collection of Drawings from Curious Antique Gems (London: printed by Dryden Leach, for M. Worlidgeä, 1768), vol. 1 etching 1768
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Thomas Worlidge Plate 73 in the book A Select Collection of Drawings from Curious Antique Gems (London: printed by Dryden Leach, for M. Worlidgeä, 1768), vol. 1 etching 1768
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Thomas Worlidge Plate 72 in the book A Select Collection of Drawings from Curious Antique Gems (London: printed by Dryden Leach, for M. Worlidgeä, 1768), vol. 1 etching 1768
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Thomas Worlidge Plate 71 in the book A Select Collection of Drawings from Curious Antique Gems (London: printed by Dryden Leach, for M. Worlidgeä, 1768), vol. 1 etching 1768
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Thomas Worlidge Plate 3 in the book A Select Collection of Drawings from Curious Antique Gems (London: printed by Dryden Leach, for M. Worlidgeä, 1768), vol. 2 etching 1768
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Thomas Worlidge Plate 99 in the book A Select Collection of Drawings from Curious Antique Gems (London: printed by Dryden Leach, for M. Worlidgeä, 1768), vol. 2 etching 1768
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Thomas Worlidge Plate 14 in the book A Select Collection of Drawings from Curious Antique Gems (London: printed by Dryden Leach, for M. Worlidgeä, 1768), vol. 2 etching 1768
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Thomas Worlidge Plate 13 in the book A Select Collection of Drawings from Curious Antique Gems (London: printed by Dryden Leach, for M. Worlidgeä, 1768), vol. 2 etching 1768
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Thomas Worlidge Plate 12 in the book A Select Collection of Drawings from Curious Antique Gems (London: printed by Dryden Leach, for M. Worlidgeä, 1768), vol. 2 etching 1768
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Thomas Worlidge Plate 11 in the book A Select Collection of Drawings from Curious Antique Gems (London: printed by Dryden Leach, for M. Worlidgeä, 1768), vol. 2 etching 1768
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Thomas Worlidge Plate 10 in the book A Select Collection of Drawings from Curious Antique Gems (London: printed by Dryden Leach, for M. Worlidgeä, 1768), vol. 2 etching 1768
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Thomas Worlidge Plate 9 in the book A Select Collection of Drawings from Curious Antique Gems (London: printed by Dryden Leach, for M. Worlidgeä, 1768), vol. 2 etching 1768
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Thomas Worlidge Plate 8 in the book A Select Collection of Drawings from Curious Antique Gems (London: printed by Dryden Leach, for M. Worlidgeä, 1768), vol. 2 etching 1768
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Thomas Worlidge Plate 92 in the book A Select Collection of Drawings from Curious Antique Gems (London: printed by Dryden Leach, for M. Worlidgeä, 1768), vol. 2 etching 1768
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Thomas Worlidge Plate 93 in the book A Select Collection of Drawings from Curious Antique Gems (London: printed by Dryden Leach, for M. Worlidgeä, 1768), vol. 2 etching 1768
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Thomas Worlidge Plate 7 in the book A Select Collection of Drawings from Curious Antique Gems (London: printed by Dryden Leach, for M. Worlidgeä, 1768), vol. 2 etching 1768
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Thomas Worlidge Plate 6 in the book A Select Collection of Drawings from Curious Antique Gems (London: printed by Dryden Leach, for M. Worlidgeä, 1768), vol. 2 etching 1768
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Thomas Worlidge Plate 94 in the book A Select Collection of Drawings from Curious Antique Gems (London: printed by Dryden Leach, for M. Worlidgeä, 1768), vol. 2 etching 1768
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Thomas Worlidge Plate 95 in the book A Select Collection of Drawings from Curious Antique Gems (London: printed by Dryden Leach, for M. Worlidgeä, 1768), vol. 2 etching 1768
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Thomas Worlidge Plate 97 in the book A Select Collection of Drawings from Curious Antique Gems (London: printed by Dryden Leach, for M. Worlidgeä, 1768), vol. 2 etching 1768
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Thomas Worlidge Plate 5 in the book A Select Collection of Drawings from Curious Antique Gems (London: printed by Dryden Leach, for M. Worlidgeä, 1768), vol. 2 etching 1768
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Thomas Worlidge Plate 98 in the book A Select Collection of Drawings from Curious Antique Gems (London: printed by Dryden Leach, for M. Worlidgeä, 1768), vol. 2 etching 1768
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Thomas Worlidge Plate 4 in the book A Select Collection of Drawings from Curious Antique Gems (London: printed by Dryden Leach, for M. Worlidgeä, 1768), vol. 2 etching 1768
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Thomas Worlidge Plate 70 in the book A Select Collection of Drawings from Curious Antique Gems (London: printed by Dryden Leach, for M. Worlidgeä, 1768), vol. 1 etching 1768
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Thomas Worlidge Plate 69 in the book A Select Collection of Drawings from Curious Antique Gems (London: printed by Dryden Leach, for M. Worlidgeä, 1768), vol. 1 etching 1768
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Thomas Worlidge Plate 68 in the book A Select Collection of Drawings from Curious Antique Gems (London: printed by Dryden Leach, for M. Worlidgeä, 1768), vol. 1 etching 1768
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Thomas Worlidge Plate 51 in the book A Select Collection of Drawings from Curious Antique Gems (London: printed by Dryden Leach, for M. Worlidgeä, 1768), vol. 1 etching 1768

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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Bert Green Fine Art: Visions of Heaven and Hell (and Then Some)
Barker has revealed startling metaphors for our inner dreams and fears; as in Plato's Cave, we fear that which we are not accustomed to experiencing. Fear gives way to erotic fantasy as unusual creatures open doors to our education in a new world...
SCENE Metrospace: Cir*cus/Car*ni*val
Stern sates about her work, "I play God(dess), attributing characteristics to my medium and by being consistent within one piece, I aim to convince the audience of their validity. In some instances, I find, recreate, and reinforce the parallels ...
Overgaden - Institute of Contemporary Art: Andrea Jespersen and Ben Woodeson
Jespersen also tries to find superpowers outside the colourful universe of the comics, whereby her work becomes a sort of meta-reflection on our need to believe in the existence of superpowers and superheroes. In this way her work also deals with ...
ArtSpace: Morphologies Exhibition and Symposium to be Held
Artists - Dennis Del Favero, Agnes Hegedüs, Ian Howard, Susan Norrie, Jeffrey Shaw, SKAN + Peter Weibel Curated by Nicholas Tsoutas (Artspace) + Nick Waterlow (Ivan Dougherty Gallery) MORPHOLOGIES SYMPOSIUM
23 November 2001 2 - 5 ...
Schumacher Gallery, Capital University: African-American Artists of Central Ohio
The exhibit is co-curated by David Barker and includes artwork by Ron Anderson, Talle Bamazi, Garner Chapman, Larry Collins, Ed Colston, Jenita Landerum-Bittles, Bruce Robinson, Melissa Smith, Pheoris West, and Beverly Whiteside. “African-...
I-Park: Call to Artists: Artist Enclave 2005 Residency Program
Accommodations include comfortable private living quarters in an 1850’s farmhouse, shared bath and a private studio on the grounds. An electric kiln and modest music and library facilities are provided. I-Park is a 450-acre natural woodland ret...
Adam Gallery: New Paintings: Barbara Rae Ra
Following is the essay from the catalogue: " Taste; we are not born with it. It has to be acquired in the same way we learn grammar to improve creative writing. If we feel uncertain about judging a work of art, or the utilitarian design of a c...
QUT Art Museum: The Brisbane Line: Queensland Women Artists of the Early Twentieth Century
The exhibition, which provides a diversity of inspiration from nineteenth-century moody impressionism and urban spaces of Brisbane to portraits of fashionable women of the ‘flapper’ era, has been co-curated by Robyn Daw, Manager, Education, National ...
National Academy ofProfessional Plein air Painters: Summer Workshops 2000
There will be 7 full days entirely devoted to painting with the medium of your choice. La Roche-Guyon with its castle and white chalk cliff hanging above the Seine River ...
Clark Art Institute of Art: Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures: Orientalism in America, 1870-1930
The rich history of this American Orientalism will be the subject of Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures: Orientalism in America, 1870-1930, a traveling exhibition organized by the Sterling and ...
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen gGmbH: 46th International Short Film Festival
With 68 films and videos from 33 countries, the INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION is the largest section. The biggest GERMAN (Short Film) COMPETITION features 28 films and videos, the International CHILDREN'S FILMS COMPETITION presents 36 films from 16...
Atlantic Center for the Arts: Call for Artists: 2003 Residency Program
Each residency session includes three master artists of different disciplines. The master artists each personally select a group of associates - talented, emerging artists - through an application process administered by ACA. During the residency,...
Atlantic Center for the Arts: Call for Artists: Residencies March 1 - 2, 2004
Each residency session includes three master artists of different disciplines. This secession the master artists are Carolee Schneeman - visual artist, Mark Strand - poet, and John Zorn - musician/composer. The master artists each personally sel...
Atlantic Center for the Arts: Call for Artists: Artist in Residency Offers Opportunity to Work with Eric Bogosian, Vik Muniz, Olly Wilson
October 6 - 26, 2003  (application deadline: August 1, 2003)During the residency, artists participate in informal sessions with their group, collaborate on projects, and work independently on their own projects. The relaxed atmosphere and unstr...
Atlantic Center for the Arts: Call for Artists: Residency Program
Each residency session includes three master artists of different disciplines. The master artists each personally select a group of associates - talented, emerging artists - through an application process administered by ACA. During the residency,...
Johannesburg Civic Gallery: MTN DOWNTOWN VIDEO FOCUS
Viewers are encouraged to interact and add to the experience of the exhibition through the process of participation. Supported by the MTN Art Institute, this exhibition also features educational workshops and walk-abouts, in addition to promoti...
Ryerson Gallery: Contemporary Ambrotypes: Maayan Kasimov and Rob Norton
To make an ambrotype, dark coloured glass is coated with wet collodian, sensitized in a silver nitrate bath and then exposed by a positive image. The unique qualities of its alchemy produce a remarkable richness of tones that is haunting in its be...
Van Gogh Museum: Fred Holland Day: Symbolist Photographer
It was in the 1880s that Day became interested in photography. Like the so-called Pictorialist group, he felt that photography was an art form too. Day even photographed religious subjects which had until then been the sole province of painters ...
York Quay Centre: Pool: Works By Twenty Artists
In her curatorial statement, Garnet writes, Pool will act as an aperture for the poetics of art, elucidating the fluid and tenuous relationship that exists between humanity and nature. Pool references literature as a repository of liquid metaphors...
Atlantic Center for the Arts: Call for Artists: WINDART Residency
Since 1982, Atlantic Center's residency program has provided artists from all artistic disciplines with spaces to live, work, and collaborate during three-week residencies. Located just four miles from the east coast beaches of central Florida, th...
Bathroom Gallery: Videos By Spanish Artists Who Don't Make Any, or Nearly
Guest curator, Nilo Casares writes of the exhibition, An exhibition that begins with a slip on the internet and goes on, as almost everything I do. As I am not interested in video-art at all (i only appreciate the results from those pe...
Rijksmuseum: Rembrandt in Various States: Etchings from the British Museum and the Rijksmuseum
Both museums have excellent collections, making it possible to present the crème de la crème: gaps in the London collection can be filled from Amsterdam and vice versa. The ex...
Rijksmuseum: Rembrandt in Various States, Part II: Etchings from the British Museum and the Rijksmuseum
Both museums have excellent collections, making it possible to present the crème de la crème: gaps in the London collection can be filled from ...
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: William Merritt Chase: Modern American Landscapes, 1886–1890
William Merritt Chase: Modern American Landscapes, 1886–1890 presents a remarkable group of the painter’s outdoor scenes of New York. The ...
Temple Bar Gallery and Studios: Stephen Brandes: Ways of Escape
In Brandes’ current work fragments of historical fact exist alongside elaborate visual fictions. As he has said, "though many of the motifs still allude to the landscape and historical events of Central and Eastern Europe, the work itself is becom...
Witte de With Center for Contemportary Art: Manfred Pernice
The sculptures are constructed from simple materials like wood and chipboard and consist of composite forms of boxes and containers. They function as an installation ...
Atlantic Center for the Arts: Call for Artists: Argentina Cultural Exchange Residency
Located just four miles from the east coast beaches of central Florida, the pine and palmetto wooded environment contains award-winning studios that include a resource library, painting studio, sculpture studio, music studio, dance studio, black b...
futuremaybe: Oni Exhibitions
Scott Alberg, an MFA candidate at The Museum School, will be making his debut in futuremaybe with plastine sculptures of the Space Shuttle Challengerís explosion. His objects refer to an adolescent obsession with expositions and outer spac...
RAM galleri: Jan Steffensen: Aquaduct
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Inspired Art Fair: Get up Close and Personal - Your Picture Perfect Home
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