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This painting is a night scene from the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament, depicting the patriarch Boaz sleeping under a night sky with a crescent moon. According to the Bible, Boaz notices Ruth , a widowed Moabite and relative of his, gleaning grain in his fields.
The painting was executed two years after the revolutions of 1848 that provided a shock to the stable world embodied in the dusty solitude of the library. In the lower left corner of the painting an old faded globe can be seen; the bookworm is not interested in the outside world, but in the knowledge of the past.
The Sleeping Congregation painting (1728) [30] print (1736) [140] Scholars at a Lecture (1736) [143] The Company of Undertakers (1736) [144] Three Ladies in a Grand Interior/ The Broken Fan / possibly Catherine Darnley, Duchess of Buckingham with Two Ladies (c.1736) [31] Woman Swearing A Child To A Grave Citizen—print engraved by Joseph ...
Delighted with the painting, Adele Cannon Howells, the Primary President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints wanted to commission Friberg to create twelve paintings depicting the Book of Mormon for The Primary's published magazine called The Children's Friend. Financing for taking on such a project was an obstacle as there was ...
Highmore's painting of a scene from Clarissa, now in the Yale Center for British Art, 1745-47.. The book was already a popular one for painters - the younger artist Francis Hayman had produced designs for Gravelot's engravings for the 1742 edition [1] as well as a pair of scenes from the novel for Vauxhall Gardens, also around 1742 [2] (one is lost and the other is now in the National Trust's ...
Going to Work is a 1943 oil painting by the English artist L. S. Lowry. Originally commissioned as a piece of war art by the War Artists Advisory Committee, it depicts crowds of workers walking into the Mather & Platt engineering equipment factory in Manchester, north-west England. The painting now hangs in the Imperial War Museum North. [1]
The first major art work that Christensen undertook while in Utah was a commission from Dimick B. Huntington to do a collection of paintings from the Bible and Book of Mormon, in collaboration with Dan Weggeland. [10] Christensen is best known for his Mormon Panorama, a series of 23 large paintings that depict the history of the church. [11]
Among the eight books featuring his work, is the 1986 coffee-table book The American Spirit: The Paintings of Mort Künstler, which contains nearly 200 images and commentary written by historian Henry Steele Commager. [5] [27] An updated edition of The American Spirit was published in 1994. [28]