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June 16

Lady in a Red Dress

PONTORMO, Jacopo

1532, oil on panel

Frankfurt/M., Stadelsches Kunstinstitut

May 24

The Warrior

FRAGONARD, Jean-Honore

1769, oil on canvas

Clark Art Institute, currently being shown at the Kimbell

Self Portraits from 1875 and 1899

RENOIR, Pierre Auguste

Oil on canvas

Clark Art Institute, currently on exhibit in Fort Worth, Texas at the Kimbell

These are kind of breathtaking right next to each other - the sheer difference in the texture of the paint is incredible, though it’s hard to tell how raised and rough the surface is on the first (make sure you click to get a better idea). (Renoir intended to throw the first portrait in the trash, but a friend persuaded him not to.)

December 5

Boy with Squirrel (Henry Pelham)
John Singleton Copley
1765
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA

American portrait artist John Singleton Copley showcased this piece at the exhibition of the Incorporated Society of Artists in 1766, making it the first American painting to be shown abroad. Born in Boston, Copley’s mother remarried Peter Pelham after Copley’s father died, which proved beneficial to the artist in that Pelham was both an engraver and friends with many local painters. The subject in the above painting is of Copley’s half-brother, Henry Pelham.

June 25

kateoplis:

Before the legal codification of “homosexual,” Whitman spent the days before and after the Civil War with his lover, Peter Doyle, a Confederate deserter. (1891)

From Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture at the National Portrait Gallery, which marks the first time a major museum in the United States has dedicated an entire exhibition to gay and lesbian portraiture.