mudwerks:

(via Leah Palmer Preiss – Oddments and Curiosities | Hi-Fructose)

Last Ride

must-be-the-monet:

Claude Monet, The Boat Studio, 1876. French, Barnes Foundation, PA.

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lissbirds:

victum-totus:

Midshipman Augustus Brine - John Singleton Copley, Painter

I can never get over the fact that midshipmen were so young.  He looks ready to take on the world.

What were you doing with your life when you were 13?

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theticketthatexploded:

George Tooker, Coney Island, 1948

(via Gandalf’s Gallery: George Tooker - Coney Island [1948])

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sailorgil:

Dazzle Ships in Drydock at Liverpool  … Painting by Edward Wadsworth, 1919

John Singer Sargent - An Out of Doors Study; 1889

American expatriate artist, 1856-1925

An Out Of Doors Study; 1889

thegildedcentury:

Life, October 9, 1944

thegildedcentury:

Life magazine, August 21, 1944

oldrags:

Friendship and Affection by Gustave Leonard de Jonghe, 1870’s

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mudwerks:

(via Pre Raphaelite Art: Edward Burne-Jones - A Sea-Nymph)

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see also: Racing with the cutters

artandopinion:

Mermaid

Charles Murray Padday

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mudwerks:

(via Gandalf’s Gallery: Antropov Kuindzhi - Ladoga Lake [1870])

art-history:

George Caleb Bingham 
The Jolly Flatboatmen  1846 
Oil on canvas  38 x 48½ in 
Manoogian Collection, Taylor, Michigan 

Water Wench Wednesday

sailorgil:

” Merboy Offering a Shell to His Mergirl “  ….. Artist: Elena Flerova, Russia

msbehavoyeur:

Peace and War ~ Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, Oil on canvas 1776   via