Artist: Henry Varnum Poor ( - )
Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Henry Varnum Poor, Mt. Ypsilon, 19th - 20th century
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Henry Varnum Poor, Sleeping Baby, 19th - 20th century
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Henry Varnum Poor, Study of a Nude Woman, 19th - 20th century
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Henry Varnum Poor, The Orchardist and His Family (Summer Afternoon), 1914
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Henry Varnum Poor - The Pink Tablecloth 1933 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Jacob Lawrence - They were very poor 1940-41 tempera on gesso on The Museum of Modern Art American
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William Michael Harnett - Alas, Poor Yorick 1877 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art American
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Charles Bird King - Poor Artist's Cupboard c. 1815 oil on panel Corcoran Gallery of Art American
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George Biddle, Poor Whites, 1932
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Edmund Blampied, Poor People, 1926
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Thomas Rowlandson, The Poor Sailor"s Mistake, 1801
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Christian von Mechel, Triumph of the Poor, 18th - 19th century
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Leopoldo MÈndez, SueÒo de los Pobres (Dream of the Poor), mid 20th century
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Pablo Picasso, Les pauvres (The poor ones), from La suite des saltimbanques (The acrobats set), 1905
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George Cruikshank, Alas, poor Ghost., 18th - 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley, Poor Erin"s daughter, 19th century
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Anonymous, Sketches of a Stroller: "You owe your existence to your poor mother.", 19th century
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John Thomas Smith, St. Luke"s Day: a poor painter removing, 18th - 19th century
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Thomas Nast, It Struck (In Blowing Over) Picking Even the Poor Soldiers" Bones To Feather Their Nest, 1876
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Francisco JosÈ de Goya y Lucientes, Pobrecitas! (Poor Little Girls!), plate 22 from the series Los Caprichos (Caprices), 1799
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Thomas Rowlandson, The Cries of London: Old Clothes; Cooper; Pray Remember the Poor Sweeper, 18th - 19th century
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Nicholas Blakey, Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his Store. Sees but a backward Steward for the Poor, 18th century
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Robert Havell , Whip-poor-will, pl. 82 from the portfolio John James Audubon. The Birds of America (London, the author: 1828-1839), circa 1827 - 1838
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Jean-Louis-AndrÈ-ThÈodore GÈricault, Pity the Sorrows of a Poor Old Man from the series, Various Subjects Drawn From Life and on Stone, J. Gericault (London: 1821), 1821
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Thomas Rowlandson, Alas Poor Syntax, vignette on page 279 in the book The Third Tour of Dr. Syntax, In Search of a Wife [by William Combe] (London:R. Ackermann, [1821]), vol. 3 (of 3), 1821
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Thomas Rowlandson, Alas! Poor Grizzle,vignette on page 51 in the book The Second Tour of Dr. Syntax, In Search of Consolation [by William Combe] (London:R. Ackermann, 1820), vol. 2 (of 3), 1820
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Thomas Rowlandson, Poor Johnny on the Sick List, plate 9 opposite page 66 in the book The Military Adventures of Johnny Newcome (London: Patrick Martin: (1815), 1815
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Marked by Hester Bateman, 1708-1794 Cream Jug London, England England, (London), 1786-87 Silver H. 16
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Cham (AmÈdÈe Charles Henri de NoÈ), Ce pauvre Henri voyant emmener son cheval chez le boucher (Poor Henri seeing his horse taken away to the butcher), fifteenth plate in the book, Album du SiÈge, 19th century
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HonorÈ Daumier, Pauvre France!...Le tronc est foudroyÈ, mais les racines tiennent bon! (Poor France!...The trunk Is blasted, but the roots hold fast), thirty-second plate in the book, Album du SiÈge, 1871
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Head of a Woman
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Gustave DorÈ , Rich and Poor, illustration no. 375 on page 567 in the book Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine (Les contes drolatiques) by HonorÈ de Balzac. 1st English translation (London: John Camden Hotten, [1874]), 1874
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Gustave DorÈ , The Poor and Suffering, illustration no. 307 on page 430 in the book Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine (Les contes drolatiques) by HonorÈ de Balzac. 1st English translation (London: John Camden Hotten, [1874]), 1874
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Gustave DorÈ , Poor Chiquon, illustration no.95 on page 114 in the book Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine (Les contes drolatiques) by HonorÈ de Balzac. 1st English translation (London: John Camden Hotten, [1874]), 1874
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Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velasquez, Esopo.Retrato De Un Viejo Descamisado...(Portrait of a poor old man)...nineteenth plate in the book... El Real Museo de Madrid y las joyas de la pintura en Espana ([Madrid]: Juan JosÈ Martinez, [1857]), 16th - 17th c
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Peter Paul Rubens - The Reconciliation of King Henry III and Henry of Navarre 1628 oil on panel Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester Flemish
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Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Spanish, 1746-1828 Disparate Pobre (Poor Folly); from the "Disparates" series,
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Henry Cousins, Henry Leverage, 19th century
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Washington Allston, American, 1779-1843 The Poor Author and the Rich Bookseller 1811 Oil on canvas
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Henry Wolf, Portrait of the Engraver Henry Wolf, 1905

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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Thavibu Gallery: A Difficult Journey: Thai artist Kritsana Chaikitwattana
Most of his works feature the grim faces of the poor who have taken the difficult journey to the city in order to try their luck and improve their lives. This is a statement expressing the artists compassion and concern for the poor and homel...
Centre of Attention: Gypsies, Jews, Blacks and Queers and other free radicals (Nu Elementz in Performance Art at Notting Hill Arts Club)

I want some of your attention; give it to me. Chrisse Hynde. This work is new and valuable: in dealing with culture, with desire, with Being, with incongruity, with misplaced, mis-shaped, look at me, look what I done, mentality, sensuality: broken...
MASS MoCA: Philip Guston's Caricatures of Richard Nixon
Guston was born in Montreal, Canada, to a family who emigrated from Odessa, in the Ukraine. His family moved to Los Angeles where Guston attended high school and where he met Jackson Pollock. By age 15, he had decided to become an artist, and enro...
Telfair Art Museum: ROBERT GWATHMEY: MASTER PAINTER
Gwathmey's signature style is easily recognized. Influenced by Pablo Picasso, Gwathmey adapted the Cubist style for his narrative expression. Space is flattened into large areas of unmodulated color, as seen i...
Esso Gallery: What Am I Doing Here? (A Political Exhibition)
Already two countries have been destroyed and with them their culture (our culture) and their art. This involves us and demonstrates that who ever is governing this world is not interested in people, in their dignity, in their culture and least of...
Detroit Institute of Arts: Van Gogh: Face to Face
The exhibition, organized chronologically, is divided equally between drawings and paintings. The majority of the drawings date from early in van Gogh's career, when he was still working in his ...
How Original! An Art Gallery: Call to Artists: In the Toilet - An exhibition of Function Meets Art
Artists will be asked to paint on a new toilet so that when painted, it will still be usable for the originally intended purpose.  For those artists who wish to do something smaller, the gallery will also be accepting submissions of toilet seats. ...
Gallery Bark Modern Art: Christine Maudy: Cries and Whispers
A truly contemporary artist Christine explores the major cultural, political and ecological issues and believes that is the artist’s duty to contribute in raising awareness.  “Cries & Whispers” is Christine’s way to express her concerns at ...
San Diego Museum of Art: Roger Ballen: Photographs
These portraits of forgotten civil servants, their children, maids, and pets are studies of the degradation and failure of apartheid. Shot with a direct flash his poor white subjects, their personalities and their flaws, are depicted in stark reli...
ShanghArt: Hu Yang's: Shanghai Living
WEI Yufang (Shandongese, Vendor) We have miserable life. Battercake and salted vegetable for every meal, accompanied by plain water. When the kids cry for meat dishes, I just cook an egg. As long as it is not rainy, I go out and do my busin...
Indianapolis Museum of Art: Van Gogh and the Labors of the Field
While in Saint-Remy, Van Gogh rarely had access to models and he often turned to making copies after paintings and drawings by the artists who inspired him most, including Rembrandt van Rijn, ...
Catto Contemporary: Last Days of the Empire: Therese Stowell
The Minister of Information explicates an apocalyptic future…. ‘My fellow Americans, hear this. The empire crumbles. The backlash against our financial and cultural expansion swells. The military is overextended, the economy is faltering. Co...
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford: Matt Mullican: More Details from an Imaginary Universe
This quote from Matt Mullican, which is taken from the interview with Michael Tarantino, seems to lie at the heart of the artist's practice. Mullican has always been concerned...
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea: Ignacio Basallo: Transformations
The way he works has changed little over the years. A quarter of a century ago, he resorted to wood and played with the ambiguous images conjured up in the rural environment, but he used them giving value to their formal language, the interplay w...
Museum of Finnish Art, Ateneum: Hugo Simberg
Hugo Simberg was an artist, who was not interested in painting ordinary pictures of everyday subjects. More important for him was to depict something that would live on in the mind and keep a hold on the person, opening doors to another r...
Site Gallery: Martin Sastre: American as well
The Foundation highlights a set of values regarding status and fame that have become the local currency of the contemporary art world. (www.martinsastre.com) For his first show in the UK, Sastre will be showing his most recently commissi...
Portland Museum of Art: Human Comedy: Lithographs by Honoré Daumier
He was born the son of a glazier in Marseilles, and moved as a child with his family to Paris, where he worked first as an errand boy before beginning lessons in drawing. It was not his artistry, however, but his wry observations of French socie...
Frissiras Museum: Olympic Cities - Gods Becoming Men: Curated by Edward Lucie-Smith
’Gods Becoming Men’, at the privately owned Frissiras Museum, which occupies two handsomely converted 19th century mansions in the Plaka, in the very heart of Athens, is in many ways a riposte to this - in geographical terms, in exploitation of te...
BAWAG Foundation: Elke Krystufek: The Rich Visit the Poor, the Poor Visit the Rich
Artists, gallery owners, collectors, curators - Krystufek falls back on the entire art scene yakuza, making them appear against a backdrop of slums and palaces, in chic salons and trashy saloons, in pink Cadillacs, designer chairs, and high-gra...
NSA Gallery: Two Exhibitions to Open: Paintings by Heleen Verwey and Photographs by Paul Weinberg
Heleen Verwey has a diverse background in the arts, having worked in theatre, television, animation and in music both as an organiser and a performer. For the last fifteen years she has worked in fine art, at first in her spare time but in the la...
University of Richmond Museums, Marsh Gallery: Visions from the Soul: Woodcuts by Hans Friedrich Grohs
As a young master student at the Bauhaus in Weimar, Grohs studied under Lyonel Feininger but he left the academy in 1919 following a controversial dispute with founder Walter Gropius regarding the sacrifice of German “identity” for the increasing ...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: William Blake's Masterpieces
Many of the artist's greatest works will be on view in William Blake, including the apocalyptic Angel of the Revelation (ca. 1803-05, The Metropolitan Museum o...
Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy: 9th Asian Art Biennale Bangladesh 1999
However, the picture cannot be entirely bleak because there are some clean, well-lighted areas in our civilization. One such area belongs to art and literature, music and dance, and all the other creative endeavours of human beings, which we colle...
British Museum: The Metal Mirror Coin Photography by Stephen Sack
Often using macro photography and sophisticated lighting techniques he has investigated tombstone ...
Jewish Museum: Paris in New York: French Jewish Artists in Private Collections
The works in this exhibition are from private collections, supplemented with examples from The Jewish Museum’s collection. The collectors of these works share both an admiration for their beauty and an abidi...
Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard: Franz Marc: Horses
This concentrated group of six masterworks focuses on the canonical painting The Red Horses (1911), a promised gift currently on long-term loan to the Busch-Reisinger Museum. Other works included in the exhibition are Small Blue Horses (1912) and ...
United Nations Headquarters: Our World in the Year 2000: The Winsor & Newton Worldwide Millennium Painting Competition
Kofi Annan, Secretary-General, United Nations, comments: The exhibition is an excellent example of how the universal language of art can bring nations together and promote greater understanding between peoples and ...
Photographers Gallery ZA: Borders and Beyond: An International Exhibition of Photographs
Many are already deceived along the way, most of them caught long before reaching the destination of their hopes. People and their destinies fill the exhibition and accompanying book Borders and Beyond. Ten photo stories (and five essays in the bo...
Van Gogh Museum: Jean-François Millet: Drawings
Millet was a talented draughtsman. Although he employed an academic technique, in a certain sense one can say he reinvented it: by depicting his models in their natural surroundings, by scrupulously reproducing the effects of light, and by care...
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag: Francis Bacon
The paintings on view will include the famous series of Popes, his works based on Van Gogh, portraits of his friend and companion George Dyer and a large number of monumental triptychs, including one - Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Cr...

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