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0:09– From foreign Lands and People 2:11– Curious Story 3:09– Catch me if you can 3:38– Entreating Child 4:25– Perfect Happiness 5:48– An Important Event 6:40– Dreaming 9:33– By the Fireside 10:19– Knight of the Rocking-Horse 10:53– Almost too serious 12:40– Frightening 14:08– Child falling asleep 16:32– The Poet Speaks

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Many thanks to sakura at One Step at a Time for introducing me to this musical selection in her post, The Eyes of a Child.

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“Frieseke’s celebrated Giverny subjects of women in domestic interiors, or, such as in the present example, enjoying moments of leisure in the village’s opulent gardens, are imbued with a remarkable sense of light and high-keyed palette adopted from the French Impressionists. William H. Gerdts writes, “It was Frieseke who introduced into the repertory of Giverny painting the concern for rich, decorative patterns, related to the art of Edouard Vuillard, Pierre Bonnard, and the other Nabi painters. There are patterns of furniture, patterns of parasols, patterns of fabric and wall coverings, patterns of light and shade, and patterns of flowers, all played off one against another in bright sunshine…” (Monet’s Giverny: An Impressionist Colony, New York, 1993…

Robinson, a Vermont native, painted this scene in France, perhaps at Giverny, where he was a friend of Claude Monet. The woman recalls the peasants of Barbizon art but confronts us as they do not. Women who appear to blend with a natural setting are seen often in American Impressionism.

Florence Griswald Museum

Franz Schubert: Piano Sonata No.21 in B-flat, D.960

• 01:21 I. Molto moderato
• 20:57 II. Andante sostenuto
• 29:29 III. Scherzo, Allegro vivace con delicatezza
• 33:48 IV. Allegro ma non troppo

Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.32 in C minor, Op.111

• 43:53 I. Maestoso / Allegro con brio ed appasionato
• 53:11 II. Arietta, Adagio molto semplice e cantabile

Encores: Johann Sebastian Bach: Well Tempered Clavier Book I Prelude and Fugue in C Major, BWV 846

• 01:13:09 Prelude
• 01:14:54 Fugue Franz Schubert: Piano Sonata No.20 in A, D.959
• 01:18:15…

While Joseph Wright of Derby was painting his unusual chiaroscuro narratives of the Enlightenment, a new American artist stopped off in London, on his way home to Philadelphia. Over the next fifty-seven years he was among the leading history painters in Britain, painted for the King of England, and became the second President of the Royal Academy in London.

When Benjamin West was born in Springfield, Pennsylvania, in 1738, the edge of European ‘civilisation’ was only a hundred or so miles to the west. As the tenth child of an innkeeper, with little formal education, limited training in painting, and almost no knowledge of classical history or mythology, he seems an implausible figure. Quite how he became the eminent artist that he was when he died in 1820 isn’t clear either: the most detailed contemporary account of his life and work was written by a novelist, John Galt, who compiled…