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“theboysdon’tplaynice-withanyone, portrait of april and june” by David Antonio Cruz (American) - Oil and latex on wood / 2018 - Outwin 2019, National Portrait Gallery (Washington, DC) #WomenInArt #art #artText #DavidAntonioCruz #NationalPortraitGallery #QueerArt #arte #AmericanArt #AmericanArtist
Two young women, April and June, sit together on a sofa, facing forward and meeting our eyes without flinching. Their bodies are close, legs intertwined so their limbs overlap and “confound,” making the boundary between two separate poses feel intentionally blurred. One figure sits more upright as the other reclines on the cushions, lying back so her head drops just past the sofa’s edge. The scene reads as playful and intimate, with cropped clothing and tasteful bare skin presented as self-possessed rather than staged. The paint surface feels warm and bodily against the sofa’s structured shape, and beneath the couch, possible phallic forms push into view like an intrusive, almost comic underside that turns the domestic setting into something charged and watchful. The scale and direct gaze keep the moment from becoming voyeuristic because the longer you look, the more it feels like they are assessing you. American artist David Antonio Cruz’s composition deliberately echoes art-historical reclining-figure traditions that often built around passive female availability. Cruz flips the power dynamic. Where a canonical precedent like Titian’s “Venus of Urbino” can read as posed for consumption, “April and June” hold an assertive gaze that signals control. This is their closeness, their room, and their terms. The title’s run-on defiance pairs tenderness with warning, as if intimacy itself is a boundary line. As the Outwin text notes, Cruz’s wider practice (across painting and performance) centers the visibility and intersectionality of queer Brown and Black bodies, and this work sits within his “returnofthedirtyboys” series, portraying queer-identified activists and community members. Here, sensuality isn’t an invitation. It’s a stance of chosen family, mutual trust, and pleasure that refuses to be separated from safety, agency, and the right to look back.
February 20, 2026 at 8:34 AM
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"Coffin Breaker" alongside it's tiny foam ancestor. 18 x 24 in., oil on canvas, 2025.

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February 19, 2026 at 4:46 PM
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"Under a Palm Tree" by Winslow Homer (American) - Watercolor on wove paper / 1886 - National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC) #WomenInArt #WinslowHomer #Homer #NationalGalleryofArt #Watercolor #AmericanArt #AmericanArtist #bahamianArt #WomenInPortraiture #art #artText #BlueskyArt #PortraitofaWoman
A woman stands at ease beside the trunk of a slender palm, her body mostly front-facing while her head turns to the left, away from us. She has a light brown skin tone, deep-set eyes, and long dark hair partly covered by a patterned, plaid patchwork shawl that wraps around her shoulders and head. One arm folds across her chest as the other hangs softly down. Her clothing is practical and layered including a red-and-white blouse, a brown apron over a long white skirt, and gray shoes with small red accents. The setting is lush and humid with dense green leaves and shrubs punctuated by a few red blossoms. The ground is sandy and light while the sky behind the foliage is washed to an off-white glow. The watercolor handling keeps edges airy and breathable, with the woman’s calm presence held against the living, textured greens. Painted in Key West in January 1886, this work has also circulated under titles that frame the sitter as “A Key West Native” and “Florida Landscape and Figure.” That naming matters because it points to how often women are made “types” rather than fully named individuals. Yet American artist Winslow Homer’s composure here resists spectacle. The woman’s turned gaze suggests she is not posed for our permission as she appears mid-thought, self-contained, and unhurried. The palm becomes both shelter and vertical boundary like an everyday landmark that quietly centers her, giving the scene a sense of heat, shade, and stillness. By early 1886, Homer was deep into his mature period. He was based in Prouts Neck, Maine, but traveled south in winter to work in watercolor and recharge his palette with subtropical light. Florida/Caribbean excursions in the mid-1880s helped push his watercolors beyond “sketch” status into major finished works that are bold, economical, and structurally confident while also broadening his subject matter to include Black and Caribbean life, even as viewers then and now debate the social and colonial implications of that gaze.
February 19, 2026 at 12:37 AM
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99 LuftBallons
Oil & Collage on Canvas
66x70 inches. 2025.
(Homage to Artist Kip Jones)
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February 18, 2026 at 8:15 AM
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February 17, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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A wall in my gallery.
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February 15, 2026 at 1:26 PM
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“Russian Girl” by William Glackens (American) - Oil on linen / 1910 - Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, FIU (Miami, Florida) #WomenInArt #FrostArtMuseum #FIU #WilliamGlackens #Glackens #PortraitPainting #WomanInArt #AmericanArt #artText #art #arte #Ashcan #AmericanArtist #AmericanImpressionism
Painted in 1910, this little-known oil painting aligns with American artist William Glackens’s Impressionist-leaning portrait manner with modern color, lively surface, and atmosphere prioritized over academic finish for an approach often discussed in relation to the brighter, Renoir-adjacent side of his practice within the Ashcan generation. It’s a waist-up portrait of a young woman posed frontally, her gaze steady and direct, set against a softly mottled field of teal, gray, lavender, and mossy green. Her skin is ghostly white with cool bluish shadows along the jaw and neck plus warm pink blooms across her cheeks, as if lit from within. Dark, carefully shaped brows anchor her expression. Her eyes are deep brown-black, outlined with a crisp, graphic emphasis that heightens her intensity. A rounded, very dark crimson hat frames her hair, with a small red feathery accent near the left side. Her clothing is simplified into bold color relationships like a deep green-black collar and a richly patterned orange-red shawl that arcs across her shoulders and forearms. One pale hand reaches diagonally toward the lower left, resting on the other arm which folds inward, creating a contained, self-possessed posture. Brushstrokes remain visible throughout, especially in the background, so edges soften and the woman seems to emerge from vibrating color rather than a defined room. The sitter is not identified and the title “Russian Girl” is best read cautiously as it may point to styling (hat, shawl, and an early-20th-century taste for “Russian” culture) more than it confirms nationality or biography. The portrait’s power comes from the balance it holds between the woman’s calm, guarded composure and a backdrop that refuses stillness via shifting hues and brushed veils of paint. As part of the permanent collection of Florida International University’s Frost Art Museum, the portrait is both an encounter with a person and a performance of modernity through color, mood, and title.
February 14, 2026 at 7:54 PM
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'Tank Trap'
lithograph
1975
Alexander Calder (1898-1976)
USA

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February 13, 2026 at 5:11 PM
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Anany Alexeevich Verbitsky
Modernist Mid Century Forest by Anany Alexeevich Verbitsky
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Anany Alexeevich Verbitsky - Modernist Mid Century Forest by Anany Alexeevich Verbitsky
For Sale on 1stDibs - Modernist Mid Century Forest by Anany Alexeevich Verbitsky, Linen, Oil Paint by Anany Alexeevich Verbitsky. Offered by Robert Azensky Fine Art.
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February 4, 2026 at 7:48 PM
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Alice Duke
"Shenandoah Valley" - Rural California Landscape in Watercolor on Paper
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Alice Duke - "Shenandoah Valley" - Rural California Landscape in Watercolor on Paper
For Sale on 1stDibs - "Shenandoah Valley" - Rural California Landscape in Watercolor on Paper, Paper, Watercolor by Alice Duke. Offered by Robert Azensky Fine Art.
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February 3, 2026 at 7:48 PM
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“The Balcony (Self Portrait)” by Dusti Bongé (American) - Oil on canvas / 1943 - Mississippi Museum of Art (Jackson, Mississippi) #WomenInArt #WomanArtist #WomenArtists #DustiBonge #Bonge #DustiBongé #MississippiMuseumofArt #SelfPortrait #art #artText #BlueSkyArt #AmericanArtist #1940s #WomensArt
Painted in 1943, “The Balcony” arrives when time (during war) for art had to be defended. Born in Biloxi, Mississippi as Eunice Lyle Swetman, the American artist reinvented herself as Dusti Bongé and began painting seriously after her husband died in 1936, working in the backyard studio he built. It’s a modernist close-up self-portrait of a woman turned slightly away, her head angled back as she looks sideways behind us. Her face is built from crisp, geometric peach, coral, rose, and cool mint planes so the cheekbones, nose, and jaw are intersecting facets rather than soft modeling. Dark, arched brows and heavy-lidded eyes (outlined in deep blue and green) create a steady, appraising gaze. Her lips are painted in warm red-brown, with a green accent at the lower lip that echoes the cool shapes in her face. Her hair, a warm auburn-brown with honey highlights, is swept back into a neat roll. She wears a deep navy blouse with a scalloped white trim with a small yellow bow at the neckline. Along her right shoulder, a patterned textile of gold and black, with curling motifs adds a sharp decorative contrast. Behind her, floating rings in reds, oranges, and yellows punctuate a muted teal-green field, while a pale diagonal plane cuts across the background like a light beam. The overall effect is bold and unsentimental self portrait rendered with angular clarity, color intensity, and deliberate distance. Bongé was testing Cubist-inspired structure while remaining attentive to psychological presence. Critics have hailed this image for the “message in her eyes,” and it’s easy to see why. Her gaze is focused, skeptical, and quietly determined rather than inviting. In the context of a widowed artist building a serious practice far from the usual centers of power, the painting becomes more than likeness. It’s a statement of intention. The flat planes, high-contrast accents, and rhythmic circles behind her amplify that feeling. She is constructed, decisively, as a working artist.
February 3, 2026 at 5:23 AM
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Alice Duke
Farmhouse Amador Foothills - Rural California Landscape in Watercolor on Paper
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Alice Duke - Farmhouse Amador Foothills - Rural California Landscape in Watercolor on Paper
For Sale on 1stDibs - Farmhouse Amador Foothills - Rural California Landscape in Watercolor on Paper, Paper, Watercolor by Alice Duke. Offered by Robert Azensky Fine Art.
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February 2, 2026 at 7:48 PM
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“Envision”, 2022
Linda Christensen (American / Californian artist, b.1950)
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February 2, 2026 at 3:34 AM
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Alice Duke
Grey Barn and Brown House - Rural California Landscape in Watercolor on Paper
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Alice Duke - Grey Barn and Brown House - Rural California Landscape in Watercolor on Paper
For Sale on 1stDibs - Grey Barn and Brown House - Rural California Landscape in Watercolor on Paper, Paper, Watercolor by Alice Duke. Offered by Robert Azensky Fine Art.
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February 1, 2026 at 7:48 PM
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“Mary Lightfoot Tarleton Knollenberg” by Guy Pène du Bois (American) - Oil on canvas / 1935 - Florence Griswold Museum (Old Lyme, Connecticut) #WomenInArt #GuyPeneDuBois #DuBois #GuyPèneDuBois #art #FlorenceGriswoldMuseum #artText #artwork #BlueskyArt #PortraitofaWoman #AmericanArtist #AmericanArt
The sitter, Mary Lightfoot Tarleton Knollenberg, was an American sculptor. She already was gaining notice by the mid-1930s and awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1933. Her career would center on modern, pared-down figures and animals, often shaped by direct carving and a searching psychological presence. Guy Pène du Bois, an American painter and influential art critic, was known for pointed observations of modern life. Here, he turns that perceptive eye inward. Set among books, Knollenberg is less as a social type than as a working artist. She is poised, self-contained, and caught in the quiet tension between public ambition and private interior life. The American artist depicts her as a light-skinned woman sitting angled on a dark sofa, her posture steady but alert. She wears a short-sleeved, V-neck blouse in warm yellow and a deep teal-blue scarf looped around her shoulders. A green skirt pools over her knees. Her blonde hair is waved close to the head, and her face is modeled with cool shadow plus rosy cheeks, pale brow, and red lips set in a restrained line. She looks off to our left rather than meeting our gaze, as if listening to someone just outside the frame. One hand rests on her lap, fingers relaxed while the other braces lightly on the seat edge. Behind her, a pale bookcase holds rows of upright, color-banded spines and a few stacked volumes, creating a quiet rhythm of rectangles. At the left edge, a patterned blanket and a partial framed picture set the calm in a private and intellectual room. The paint surface is smooth in her face and hands, with broader, more matte strokes in the clothing and background. The limited palette of yellow, blue, and green sets her figure forward against soft grays and mint tones, while the bookshelf’s tidy order contrasts with the sitter’s slightly turned shoulders and distant focus. The overall effect is of a composed woman caught mid-thought … present in her body, elsewhere in her mind.
February 1, 2026 at 7:47 AM
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Poor donkey sold $85
Acrylic and ink on canvas. Art prints on Redbird Smith art Etsy
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February 1, 2026 at 4:31 AM
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My cartoon-Free press
Acrylic and ink on canvas. Art prints on Redbird Smith art Etsy
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January 31, 2026 at 2:32 AM
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Reading 'How to Live an Artful Life' by Katy Hessel, and attention drawn to artist Zoe Leonard's 1990s poem 'I want a president' - powerful.

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Image of poem by Zoe Leonard, I want a president, 1992/2018 Ink on onion skin paper. 22 × 8 1/2 in | 55.9 × 21.6 cm
January 30, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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“Afros and Banjos” by Charles Eady (American) - Oil on canvas / 2021 - Appleton Museum of Art (Ocala, Florida) #WomenInArt #art #artText #arte #CharlesEady #Eady #AppletonMuseumofArt #BlackArt #AfricanAmericanArt #TheUnsceneSouth #AfricanAmericanArtist #PortraitofaWoman #AmericanArt #AmericanArtist
A stylized portrait centers on a Black woman seated against a flat, velvety crimson background. She is shown from the waist up, shoulders squared and posture upright, looking directly at us with a relaxed, yet unflinching gaze. Her features are modeled in warm amber and deep brown tones plus highlights along her nose and cheekbones as shadows collect under the eyes, cheek, and chin. Her eyebrows are strong and arched. Her lips are softly closed, neither smiling nor tense. Her natural black hair forms a rounded afro that fans outward on both sides, held back by a wide orange-red headband. She wears a dark, structured jacket with narrow collar, buttoned placket, pronounced shoulders, and thin lines that trace seams and edges like a drawn outline. Down the center of the composition rises the golden neck of a banjo, with small tuning pegs near the top. A hand wraps the instrument, suggesting control and readiness rather than performance for an audience. Simplified shapes, tight cropping, and high-contrast palette make her presence feel iconic and dignified. Made in 2021, “Afros and Banjos” pairs two resonant signifiers of Black cultural memory: the afro (as a visible claim to self-definition), and the banjo (an instrument with West African roots that became central to Black musical life in America, even as it was later distorted through minstrel stereotypes). American artist Charles Eady’s broader project draws on research about free Black communities in the pre–Civil War South, and his exhibition “The Unscene South: Charles Eady Revisits History” invited viewers to reimagine who belongs in history. Here, the unidentified woman’s direct gaze refuses spectacle while the red background feels urgent, and the instrument’s upright line reads like a banner depicting music as lineage carried forward.
January 28, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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Wharf house roofs

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January 27, 2026 at 10:53 PM
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January 27, 2026 at 6:19 PM
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Integrated. --- my painting.

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January 26, 2026 at 12:19 PM
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Michael William Eggleston
Contemporary Cubist Figurative Abstract with Saxophone
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Michael William Eggleston - Contemporary Cubist Figurative Abstract with Saxophone
For Sale on 1stDibs - Contemporary Cubist Figurative Abstract with Saxophone, Canvas, Oil Paint by Michael William Eggleston. Offered by Robert Azensky Fine Art.
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January 26, 2026 at 12:29 AM
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Portraits

Boston born artist Charles Sprague Pearce (1851 – 1914)

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January 25, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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Portraits

Boston born artist Charles Sprague Pearce (1851 – 1914)

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January 25, 2026 at 3:57 PM