Ode to Spring
Contemplation – Harry’s Potter by Miryam Relis, 2020, female face made of pottery. Photograph by the artist.
Dimensions: 11 inches tall by 6 inches.
Available for purchase from the artist.
Daffodils – Photoodle 2303-2,
Ludwig Keck (American)
2023, Digital art based on a photograph.
Copyright © 2023 Ludwig Keck. All Rights Reserved.
Daffodil – Photoodle 2303-1,
Ludwig Keck (American)
2023, Digital art based on a photograph.
Copyright © 2023 Ludwig Keck. All Rights Reserved.
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Art from around the world
Many leading museums have placed images of art in their collections into the public domain. Our exhibit here shows re-processed images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cleveland Museum of Art.
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Heart of the Andes – Frederic Edwin Church (American, Hartford, Connecticut 1826–1900 New York), 1859
Oil on canvas, 66 1/8 x 120 3/16 in. (168 x 302.9cm)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Margaret E. Dows, 1909
Apple Blossoms, Charles-François Daubigny (French, Paris 1817–1878 Paris), 1873
Oil on canvas, 23 1/8 x 33 3/8 in. (58.7 x 84.8 cm)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Collis P. Huntington, 1900
Poplars, Éragny – Camille Pissarro (French, Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas 1830–1903 Paris)
1895, Oil on canvas, 36 1/2 x 25 1/2 in. (92.7 x 64.8 cm)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876-1967), 1967
Côte des Grouettes, near Pontoise – Camille Pissarro (French, Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas 1830–1903 Paris)
Probably 1878, il on canvas, 29 1/8 x 23 5/8 in. (74 x 60 cm)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Janice H. Levin, 1991
The Flowering Orchard, Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, Zundert 1853–1890 Auvers-sur-Oise), 1888
Oil on canvas, 28 1/2 x 21 in. (72.4 x 53.3 cm)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ittleson Jr. Purchase Fund, 1956
Chrysanthemums in the Garden at Petit-Gennevilliers, Gustave Caillebotte (French, Paris 1848–1894 Gennevilliers), 1893
Oil on canvas, 39 1/8 × 24 1/4 in. (99.4 × 61.6 cm)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Honorable John C. Whitehead, 2014
Spring Landscape, Thomas Doughty, American (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1793–1856 New York), ca. 1853–56, Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 44 x 62 in. (111.8 x 157.5 cm)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of George F. Shelton and Mrs. F. H. Markoe, in memory of their father, Theodore B. Shelton, 1917
A Road in Louveciennes, Auguste Renoir (French, Limoges 1841–1919 Cagnes-sur-Mer), ca. 1870, Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 15 x 18 1/4 in. (38.1 x 46.4 cm)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Lesley and Emma Sheafer Collection, Bequest of Emma A. Sheafer, 1973
Spring Flowers, 1864. Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926).
Oil on fabric; framed: 144.5 x 117.2 x 12.1 cm (56 7/8 x 46 1/8 x 4 3/4 in.); unframed: 116.8 x 90.5 cm (46 x 35 5/8 in.).
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Hanna Fund 1953.155
Large Jar with Peonies and Chrysanthemums,
late 1600s. Japan, Edo period (1615-1868). Imari ware porcelain with underglaze blue decoration; diameter: 30.5 cm (12 in.); height: 40.1 cm (15 13/16 in.).
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Collection 1964.266
Paris Almanac, 1897: Tail-piece, Spring, 1897. Auguste Louis Lepère (French, 1849–1918).
Wood engraving;
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of M. Knoedler and Company 1953.550
Landscape Album in Various Styles: Boating in Spring Water, 1684. Zha Shibiao (Chinese, 1615–1698).
Album leaf, ink and light color on paper; overall: 29.9 x 39.4 cm (11 3/4 x 15 1/2 in.).
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Severance A. Millikin 1955.37.3
Flower Study of a Miniature Lily of the Valley, c. 1885–1915. House of Fabergé (Russian, 1842–1918). Pearls, jade, rock crystal, gold, diamonds; overall: 5.1 x 2.3 cm (2 x 7/8 in.).
The Cleveland Museum of Art, The India Early Minshall Collection 1966.445
Birds Gather under the Spring Willow, late 1400s-early 1500. Yin Hong (Chinese, c. 1430-c. 1500).
Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk; painting: 240 x 195.5 cm (94 1/2 x 76 15/16 in.); overall with knobs: 280 x 204 cm (110 1/4 x 80 5/16 in.).
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1974.31
Four Springs in and around Spa: The Fourth Spring, The Spring at Sauvenière, c. 1650. Allart van Everdingen (Dutch, 1621–1675).
Etching; sheet: 14.8 x 19 cm (5 13/16 x 7 1/2 in.); platemark: 13.1 x 17.4 cm (5 3/16 x 6 7/8 in.).
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1983.163
Returning Peasants in a Spring Evening, early 1600s. Tao Hong (Chinese, active c. 1610–1640).
Album leaf, ink and color on silk; overall: 24.5 x 26.7 cm (9 5/8 x 10 1/2 in.).
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Sherman E. Lee 1999.223