Art Talk: 2020 Posts

It is the end of the year and I want to do a recap of the Art Talk posts for 2020. This way I also have one post with all links for the year and don't have to list them individually at the end of each post.

I had a great time this year recreating tours that I made for my friends while living in DC of the National Gallery of Art. All the pictures for the tours are ones that I took at the Gallery in DC.

Each week had a different theme.

During the month I will post:
-a tour (most from the National Gallery of Art in DC)
-highlight an artist from the tour
-highlight a selected piece from the tour
-highlight an interesting topic from the tour
-Special Guest bloggers!

March

Italian Renaissance
The first tour I gave to my friends at the National Gallery of Art in 2001.

Me with Ginevra
Leonardo Da Vinci
Ginevra de Benci, 1474
Art Talk: NGA Italian Renaissance Tour

Raphael
School of Athens, 1509/1511
Vatican Museum, Rome
Art Talk: Raphael

Titian
Venus With A Mirror, 1555
Art Talk: Venus

Giotto
Madonna and Child, 1320
Tempera on poplar panel
Art Talk: Egg Tempera

Out of the North

Art Talk: Guest Blogger, @laurabellamy

April

French Impressionism
This tour will introduce you to six of the main artist that showed in the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874 from oldest to youngest and then a two more French artists that I adore. They didn't show in the first exhibition but were friends with those that did..
First given at the National Gallery of Art in 2002.

Camille Pissaro
Boulevard des Italiens, Morning, Sunlight, 1897
Art Talk: NGA French Impressionism Tour

Frederic Bazille
Young Woman With Peonies, 1870
Art Talk: Fredric Bazille

Berthe Morisot
The Mother and Sister of the Artist, 1869/1870
Art Talk: The Mother and Sister of the Artist

Claude Monet
Japanese Footbridge, 1899
Art Talk: En plein air

May

Hudson River School
These were a group of New York City based artists that painted American landscapes, mostly in the Hudson River Valley starting in the 1850s. They also branched out to other places like South America and the American West.
First given at the National Gallery of Art in 2004.

Jasper Francis Cropsey
Autumn-On the Hudson River, 1860
Art Talk: NGA Hudson River School Tour

Albert Bierstadt
Mount Cocoran, 1876-1877
Art Talk: Albert Bierstadt

Thomas Cole
The Voyage of Life: Childhood, 1842
Art Talk: The Voyage of Life

Thomas Cole
Details, The Voyage of Life: Childhood, 1842
Art Talk: Romanticism & Nature & Hudson River School

June

Andrew Mellon and the Hermitage
Andrew Mellon (1855-1937) was a successful banker and industrialist and politician (US Ambassador to the United Kingdom and US Secretary of the Treasury). He was also a predominate art collector. He began collecting art in the 1890s and his most spectacular purchase happened in 1930-1931 when he acquired 21 paintings from the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
First given at the National Gallery of Art in 2007.

Sir Oswald Hornby Joseph Birley
Andrew W. Mellon, 1933
Art Talk: NGA Andrew Mellon and the Hermitage Tour

Rembrandt van Rijn
Self Portrait, 1659
Art Talk: Rembrandt

Jan van Eyck
The Annunciation, 1434
Art Talk: The Annunciation

Raphael
The Alba Madonna, 1510
Art Talk: Provenance

July-Portraiture
Portraits from 1500-1900 and Italy, Netherlands, and the United States.
First given at the National Gallery of Art in 2005.

Art Talk: Portrait of My Grandmother

Gilbert Stuart
The Skater (Portrait of William Grant), 1782
Art Talk: NGA Portrait Tour

Rembrandt Peale
Rubens Peale with a Geranium, 1801
Art Talk: Rembrandt Peale

Archibald John Motley Jr.
Portrait of My Grandmother, 1922
Art Talk: Portrait of My Grandmother

October

NGA Highlights
I took two paintings from each of the tours I had given in previous years for the highlights tour.
First given at the National Gallery of Art in 2006.

Giorgione
The Adoration of the Shepherds, 1505/1510
Art Talk: NGA Highlights tour

Leonardo Da Vinci
Ginevra de Benci, 1474
Art Talk: Ginevra de’ Benci

Claude Monet
The Japanese Footbridge, 1899
MET, New York City
Art Talk: Artist highlight

November

Dale Chihuly
A fun highlight of one of my favorite artists, including a tour of Cheekwood Estates that I went on in October 2020.

Dale Chihuly
Scarlet and Yellow Icicle Tower
Art Talk: Chihuly at Cheekwood Estate and Garden

Chihuly
Macchias
Art Talk: Artist Dale Chihuly

Dale Chihuly
Scarlet and Yellow Icicle Tower
Art Talk: Guest Blogger: Frankie O'Neill

Dale Chihuly
Persians
Art Talk: I am a Chihuly Groupie

December

Madonna and Child
The Madonna and Child is one of the central icons of Christianity. During the 15th and 16th centuries Italian painters started painting historical events, independent portraits and mythological subjects, it was religious subjects that were most common as commissions were from from religious patrons and were used to decorate churches.
First given at the National Gallery of Art in 2008.

Raphael
The Small Cowper Madonna, 1505
Art Talk: Madonna and Child