My short blog today is about n artist and a religion. It looks at the life and works of Hannah Cohoon, a person you may not have heard of before. Her art is both unusual and simplistic and is connected to a millenarian restorationist Christian sect known as The United Society of Believers in Christ's…

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21.04.2025

Théophile “Théo” van Rysselberghe Part 1. – my daily art display

The artist I am looking at today is Théophile "Théo" van Rysselberghe a Belgian neo-impressionist painter, who was a major protagonist in the European art scene at the turn of the twentieth century. Self-portrait in a Green Waistcoat (1924) Théo was born in Ghent on November 23rd 1862, the youngest child of Jean-Baptiste and Melanie…

My Daily Art Display

28.04.2025

Théophile “Théo” van Rysselberghe Part 2. – my daily art display

Van Rysselberghe went to Haarlem in September 1883 to study the light in the works of Frans Hals. He was fascinated by the way the artist had rendered the light and this facet of painting would remain with him for the rest of his life. It was also in the Netherlands that he first met…

My Daily Art Display

07.05.2025

Emma Fordyce MacRea – my daily art display

Detail from Emma Fordyce MacRea by Ivan Gregorewitch Olinsky (1930) Emma Dean Fordyce was born on April 27th 1887 in Vienna. She was the first-born child of Alice Dean Fordyce (née Smith) a woman of inherited wealth and Dr. John Addison Forsyth. Her father was a professor of dermatology who was born in Guernsey County,…

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Hannah Harrison Cohoon and the Shakers. – my daily art display

Théophile “Théo” van Rysselberghe Part 1. – my daily art display

Théophile “Théo” van Rysselberghe Part 2. – my daily art display

Emma Fordyce MacRea – my daily art display

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