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Here are the blog’s most popular paintings in 2020, in no particular order:

Henriette Ronner-Knip (Dutch, 1821 - 1909): Hide and seek and The Young Artist

Julia Beck (Swedish, 1853 - 1935): L'Etang (Brume)

Averil Burleigh (British, 1883 - 1949): Bacchants

Margherita Caffi (Italian, 1650 - 1710): Vase of Flowers

Antonietta Brandeis (Czech, 1848 - 1926): Venice, Palazzo Marino Aliero, Canale Grande  

Pegi Nicol MacLeod (Canadian, 1904 - 1949): Pair of Hands Knitting with Red Wool and Pair of Hands Knitting with Green Wool (1942)

Fox Mulder won the autism lottery. He made the FBI give him an entire subdivision for his special interest AND someone to infodump to

Aesop & Charon by Lily Seika Jones

watercolour painting

In Greek mythology Charon is the ferryman who carries souls of the newly deceased across the river Acheron (Styx) that divided the world of the living from the world of the dead.

Aesop was a Greek storyteller credited with a number of fables, now collectively known as Aesop’s Fables.

by Laure S

Suburban Landscape by Jeremy Mayes

oil painting

Ethel Gabain (French/English, 1883 - 1950): Auxiliary Fire Service Girl, City Fire Station (1940) (via ArtUK)

From the website:

Ethel Gabain was born in Le Havre, France, and studied at London’s Slade School of Fine Art and Central School of Arts and Crafts. Known for her portraits of actresses in character roles, Gabain was commissioned to record the effects of the war on Britain. As a war artist, she often portrayed both the physical dangers women faced and women completing tasks traditionally done by men, as with this portrait of an Auxiliary Fire Service (AFS) girl. During the Second World War, women joined the AFS to help minimise the damage after the bombings. Women undertook training but often did not fight the fires. They became watchers, drivers, and managed communication networks and canteen vans. After the war, the majority of the AFS women were discharged or persuaded to retire.

“A variety of wild animals visiting a water fountain”

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"Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are all noble pursuits, and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for."

-John Keating; Dead Poets Society

Art by Aleksandr Eykert

Wolfwalkers (2020)