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Background Information: Today’s Featured Picture, “Music,” comes from The Bridgeman Art Library Archive. The artist is John William Godward, an English painter from the end of the Pre-Raphaelite / Neo-Classicist era. This work represents a romantic 19th and early 20th-century music… Read More…

New Year (Spring Festival). (2009). In Berkshire Encyclopedia of China: Modern and Historic Views of the World’s Newest and Oldest Global Power. Retrieved from http://www.credoreference.com/entry/berkchina/new_year_spring_festival

Today’s Featured Picture was chosen to remind us all of the beauty of snow! It has been a snowless winter here in New England, and we are still awaiting our first big snowfall. Enjoy today’s snowy Featured Picture!… Read More…

Background Information: Today’s Featured Picture, “A Bather,” comes from The Bridgeman Art Library Archive. The artist is Kazimir Severinovich Malevich, a painter and designer born in Kiev, Ukraine. Malevich studied in Moscow, Russia and was one of the earliest pioneers of pure… Read More…

Background Information: Today’s Featured Picture, “December,” comes from The Bridgeman Art Library Archive. The artist is Eugene Grasset, an Art Nouveau pioneer who worked in France. The image depicts a winter scene up to the mid-20th century.

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