Saturday, June 14, 2014

Fathers in Art in Honor of Father's Day 2014

Edgar Degas, Place de la Concorde (Vicomte Ludovic Lepic and his daughters), 1875
oil on canvas, The Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg


oil on canvas, Museum of Modern Art, NY


Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Ugolino and his Sons, 1865-67
marble, Metropolitan Museum of Art


Hellenistic, Laocoön and His Sons, 27 BC-67 AD
marble, Vatican Museum, Vatican City


oil on canvas, Musée Marmottan Monet



Paul Cézanne, The Artist's Father Reading “LÉvénement, 1866
oil on canvas, National Gallery, Washington, DC




 Norman Rockwell, Father and Son: Homework, 1962
Four Seasons Calendar, oil on canvas, 
Collection of George Lucas, © Brown and Bigelow


Max Ferguson, Father on Fifth Avenue, 2011
oil on panel, Courtesy of Max Ferguson



Best wishes to fathers, grandfathers, god-fathers and uncles everywhere - (Click on the titles for more information about the works.)

Beth New York

aka Beth S. Gersh-Nesic, Ph.D.
Director
New York Arts Exchange


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