Hello, again, DUers! Your Friday Afternoon Challenge awaits you: A Little Night Music!

[CTyankee]

Some evening works for you to identify...

...and do play fair, please...

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[marions ghost]

1. #2 is Camille Pissarro: "Boulevard Montmartre at night,"

love that one...

[CTyankee]

2. Yep. A personal fave of mine, too.

Have you seen it in person? (I haven't).

[marions ghost]

3. Have been to the National Gallery, London

so maybe I did see it...if it was on display at the time...not sure

[CTyankee]

4. Lucky you...

[annabanana]

9. (desktop swipe). . . . n/t

[CTyankee]

11. not sure about what "desktop swipe" means...sorry, I'm a bit lame...

but could you explain it to me?

Thanks!

[annabanana]

48. I swiped the picture, and

am using it as wallpaper on my "desktop"

(beautiful pic)

[CTyankee]

49. Aww, thanks! It is so pretty.

I brought a copy to my youngest granddaughter and she loved it, put it up in her room. Now she's all excited about going to Paris...

[malaise]

5. Still enjoying your Friday threads

[CTyankee]

6. howdy, malaise! Got any guesses?

[malaise]

7. Hahahha

I'm just hear for education

[CTyankee]

8. well, DUers are a pretty impressive group of art experts!

Take it from me!

[burrowowl]

10. Kick

[CTyankee]

12. Hi, burrowowl! Glad to see you back!

This one was lots of fun for me to put together!

[marions ghost]

13. #5 = John Sloan, "The Lafayette"

Knew it was NY, the period...I thought "Ashcan School"

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Some basics about the artists of that group:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashcan_School

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The Lafayette, 1927
John Sloan (American, 1871–1951)
Oil on canvas

30 1/2 x 36 1/8 in. (77.5 x 91.8 cm)
Gift of The Friends of John Sloan, 1928 (28.18)
On view: Gallery 772 Last Updated May 29, 2012

Sloan's canvas portrays the entrance to the Hotel Lafayette, located at 9th Street and University Place in Greenwich Village, which was a popular haunt for the neighborhood's writers and artists, including Sloan. Descending on the the hotel's double awning-covered stairways is a group of genial people who are finishing their dinner conversations as a doorman hails a distinctive New York yellow Checker taxicab. In his 1944 book Gist of Art, Sloan lauded the hotel: "To the passerby not looking for modern glitter, it has always had a look of cheer and comfort, particularly on such a wet evening as this." To assist Sloan and his wife financially, Juliana Force—private secretary and assistant to the heiress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney—took up a collection among Sloan's friends in 1927 to purchase The Lafayette from him. In January 1928, the group donated the canvas to he Metropolitan Museum, where it became Sloan's second painting to enter the collection after Dust Storm, Fifth Avenue (21.41.2).

[marions ghost]

14. PS that woman in The Lafayette

she is Botero-esque...

[CTyankee]

16. in what respect? (I'm not a Botero expert...all I know is his cat sculpture)

so you can safely assume I am pretty Botero ignorant...

[marions ghost]

25. Rotund women with tiny pointy feet

http://www.arts-wallpapers.com/galleries/Fernando-Botero/index.htm

Whatever you think of him he did do a lot for voluptuosity...

[CTyankee]

32. Ah, right! Got it.

nice take on this painting...I like the guy with the tux and the cigar...looks like something on a Monopoly board game!

[CTyankee]

15. Yep. I LOVE the Ashcan school. I think it was a major American art

project with admirable results.

LOVE the backstory on Sloan that you recounted here! I didn't know it. Wonderful! Thank you so much!

[librechik]

17. 6 is one of the murkiest of Whistler's paintings and he could be

very

[CTyankee]

20. well, a departure from the lovely lady portraits in mauve, yes...

a little bit on the seamy side here...got the title?

[librechik]

22. it's probably one of the Cremorne Gardens oils--Whistler was trying to follow

French Impressionists and their interest in the underworld of prostitution etc... with portrayals of the shabby class

[marions ghost]

26. you got it right librechik

James McNeill Whistler, Cremorne Gardens No. 2 (c. 1872-77)

Spooky one

[CTyankee]

38. you are GOOD, librechik! You must be a fan of Whistler (who could resist?)

I think it is called "Cremorne Gardens #2).

The obsession of men with prostitution and other women's "stuff" continues...ah, well....

Have you seen this in person? Where is it?

[ctaylors6]

18. #3 is

a Rembrandt, I believe. Am I allowed to google for the title? Jesus eating dinner with someone.


This is great fun!

[CTyankee]

19. google is good...

[marions ghost]

21. I second that guess

& that's all I had too... but then I thought, nah...can't be Jesus...

[CTyankee]

34. Yeah, it was early Rembrandt. Nice, tho...I like it. But I always like

Rembrandt's light and dark...

[ctaylors6]

23. okay, think it's

Supper at Emmaus, the 1628 version. He painted one with same title in 1648.

Google makes me so smart.

[marions ghost]

24. yay

[ctaylors6]

27. #4 is driving me crazy

do we get hints? is it from the 1960s? is it an illustration?
Ugh, I feel like I've seen it ...

[CTyankee]

30. See below...

[IcyPeas]

28. is number 4

Joseph Stella? I know he has done industrial smoke stack kind of things - is this one of them?

[CTyankee]

29. Yes! It is Stella. One of his Factories series. Important futuristic artist

of the early 20th century. Wow, what a time that was. The Industrialization of America was a very big deal and an important subject. I love this work...

[CTyankee]

31. Every one has been guessed except for #!...here is a hint...

its artist does not fit with your intuitive reaction to this work....

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

33. Monet?

[CTyankee]

35. If you mean #1, no, not Monet.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

36. Out on a limb here. Van Gogh?

[CTyankee]

37. this is still in the impressionist (altho I think late impressionist) era and did

get a bit into a pre-abstract phase (pardon Cezanne) a little later than when this was painted...

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

41. I'm going more on your hints than the painting. Seurat?

[IcyPeas]

39. Utrillo?

[CTyankee]

40. warmer...

[dems_rightnow]

42. I believe it to be Raoul Dufy

Though I cannot name the work. Perhaps of one his French Riviera scenes?

[CTyankee]

43. Bravo, Dems right now! You are right.

It is the "Pier at Le Havre evening" from 1910. Funny, Le Havre is in the north of France, not the south so go figure.

Now, how did you know this? I am curious, since so much of Dufy is blue water, sailboats, bright sun and the south of France?

[dems_rightnow]

44. 30 years ago in college

I got assigned Dufy for an art class. I wanted O'Keefe. If you had shown people fishing I would have been sure.

[CTyankee]

45. Love that story! Dufy is not a bad assignment! I think he is kinda fun...

you learn a lot about an artist when you have to complete an assignment on them. It can be a lot of fun, too. I actually designed my own Independent Study on Caravaggio in graduate school. It was some trip doing that...

[dems_rightnow]

47. Very true

I had never heard of him when his name got assigned to be, but we got rather close over the next month or so.

I that nearly everybody in the class developed an affinity for the artist to which they had been assigned.

[CTyankee]

50. I went to Rome a few years after that Independent Study and a friend's fiance who lives

there took me to all of the places where Caravaggio's work is exhibited...it was probably the start of my obsession with art.

[marions ghost]

46. you can also read

"raoul Dufy" in the lower left corner--but I couldnt find a reference to this painting, so didnt have the title

Good one CTyankee--see ya next time.

[CTyankee]

51. wow, what good eyes you have! I couldn't see it and I looked as closely as I could...

[blaze]

52. I have GOT to find a way to find the weekly challenge more easily!!!

I usually don't have time to catch up until Sunday... then it's all scrolled down and all....

Anyway.. Just wanted to say (in my uber uneducated view) that #1 just grabbed me!!!! I can't articulate it. I have no idea why. But the first painting just totally held me.

[CTyankee]

53. Hey, thanks. That Challenge, tho, is a month old...

I have just returned from being out of town on vacation and what a nice surprise your post was!

So I have not been posting a Challenge for two Fridays. However, the Challenge resumes this coming Friday, July 13th. More really interesting art for you to ponder...

That painting you like is by Dufy. It is one of his rare evening paintings. Funny how art can grab you and you can't explain why. When I was on vacation I went to a country antique fair and saw a watercolor I just couldn't stop looking at. It was wonderful. It was also a pretty fine artist and the price tag was $1,500. Oh well...

Hope you can make it to the Challenge this Friday...