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Emily A Garnett @emilyagarnett.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“Afterglow” 1974 Happy Birthday Wolf Kahn 1927-2020 "Born in Stuttgart Wolf Kahn fled Nazi Germany to Britain with Kindertransport. Settled in US, completed high school, enrolled in Navy. Studied with Abstract Expressionist Hans Hofmann becoming his studio assistant. Completed BA: 1 year." #painter

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Emily A Garnett @emilyagarnett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"O craving heart, for the lost flowers And sunshine of my summer hours!" "Tamerlane" - Edgar Allan Poe and neighbors' flower #photograph #flowers #Poe #summer’sEnd #zinnias

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Emily A Garnett @emilyagarnett.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"The Reconstruction of the World" Argentinian-born artist Marcos Milewski (b. 1959) who lives on the island of Madeira. #art #artlover #painting

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Emily A Garnett @emilyagarnett.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Over the Pass" aquatint Happy Birthday Kansas painter&printmaker Lloyd C. Foltz 1897-1990 "Over the course of his life Foltz produced more than 100 fine art prints, even constructing his own printing press. Foltz's primary mediums were etchings, lithography, block prints." #art #printmaking

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Emily A Garnett @emilyagarnett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Lovers and thinkers, into the earth with you. Be one with the dull, the indiscriminate dust. A fragment of what you felt, of what you knew, A formula, a phrase remains,—but the best is lost." Edna St. Vincent Millay & my neighbors flowers

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Emily A Garnett @emilyagarnett.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Confrontation 1970 Happy Birthday Hughie Lee-Smith! 1915-1988 Years after winning a top prize for painting from the Detroit Institute of Arts in 1953, he said, "I was no longer called black artist, Negro artist, colored boy. All of a sudden, there was no longer a racial designation." #art #painting

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Emily A Garnett @emilyagarnett.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"Winter Landscape at Sunset" 1885 Happy BirthdayAnton Mauve1838-1888! "Mauve married van Gogh's cousin Ariëtte (Jet) Sophia Jeannette Carbentus. He was a major influence on van Gogh, who revered him. He is mentioned, directly or indirectly, in 152 of van Gogh's surviving letters." #art #painters

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Emily A Garnett @emilyagarnett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Dreamer-Portrait Painter Torleiv Stadskleiv by Halfdan Egedius b.1877 "During 1898 summer in Telemark he fell ill. He died 2/1899; 21 yr old. Death from actinomycosis bacterial infection. Lore& biographical accounts say infection from common habit, chewing straw while walking fields." #art #painting

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Emily A Garnett @emilyagarnett.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"The Giddiest Grew Pale" 1969 The Mask of the Red Death by Federico Castellon Happy Birthday to Mr. Castellon (1914 - 1971)! #art #artlover #Poe #TheMaskoftheRedDeath

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Emily A Garnett @emilyagarnett.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Ave Maria 1927 Russian Marianne von Werefkin Accidentally shot her right hand&learned to paint with her left. "Last years clouded with illness&poverty. No longer receiving her father's pension she rarely sold paintings. Friends saved paintings created before WWI from destruction." #art #paintings

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Emily A Garnett @emilyagarnett.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"I hunt for a sign of you in all the others, Then it's your hair that passes by, and I think I see your image, a bonfire, burning in the water. I searched, but no one else had your rhythms." Neruda

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Emily A Garnett @emilyagarnett.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

On the Shore 1924 -Russian artist Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin was born to a family of shoemakers. "In Paris 1906 he married Maria Jovanovic daughter of Serbian immigrant hotel-keepers; his lifelong companion. Major works include Bathing of a Red Horse 1912, symbol of coming social changes." #art #painters

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Emily A Garnett @emilyagarnett.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Hope Gangloff (b. 1974) "Gangloff continues to exclusively draw & paint her peers & everyday objects, settings of relative intimacy. Her subjects are often depicted in domestic spaces & in poses of relaxation or quiet focus. Describes her compositions as vehicles for color theory." #art #artlover

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Emily A Garnett @emilyagarnett.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"Departure" Finish artist Esa Riippa (b. 1947) #art #artlover #EsaRippa

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Emily A Garnett @emilyagarnett.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"Two Poets on an Island (Emily Dickinson & Rakim Allah)" 1991 Louisiana artist Douglas Bourgeois (born 1951) oil "A surreal, symbolic double portrait pairing the 19th-century American poet Emily Dickinson with hip-hop artist Rakim Allah." #art #artist #EmilyDickinson #RakimAllah #artlover

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Emily A Garnett @emilyagarnett.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

"Julia on the Swing" 1999 Jamie Wyeth (born 1946) "This piece is a key highlight in the nationally touring exhibition Jamie Wyeth: Unsettled, which explores the darker and more cinematic emotional currents in his career." #art #artlover #JamieWeyth #painting #painters

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Emily A Garnett @emilyagarnett.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

In the Hill Country Vermont 1943 Happy Birthday to artist printmaker Asa Cheffetz 1896-1965 "Perfectionist: meticulous attention to detail & gradation. He printed his engravings. Wed Alice Dorr 6/11/50. Soon had eye problems; at 58, quit engraving & became a salesman for paper mill." #art #engraving

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Emily A Garnett @emilyagarnett.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

My boy is done in. It’s the humidity. 💕 to all. #cat #cats #catlove #Blueskycats

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Emily A Garnett @emilyagarnett.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

❤️"The White Horse"❤️(1922) Happy Birthday George Bellows! He was born in Columbus Ohio, 1882, died in NYC, 1925 from an untreated ruptured appendix. Of all his paintings, I find his late landscapes the most moving and intriguing. He painted this on a farm near Woodstock. #art #artlover #paintedHorse

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Emily A Garnett @emilyagarnett.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

"Self-Portrait - Sowing New Seed" 1913 Sir William Orpen (1878 - 1931) "Bruce Arnold noted Orpen's interest in self-portraiture: his self-portraits are often searching and dramatic and seem to meet a deep personal need for frequent self-analysis." #art #artlover #WilliamOrpen

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Emily A Garnett @emilyagarnett.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

“As befits people and things who have lived quietly together for a long time, needing one another, finding as well an obscure pleasure in each other's company, everything in such a room breathes friendship.” (my neighbors' flowers) #BlackEyedSusans #summer #myfriends

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Emily A Garnett @emilyagarnett.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Summer Clouds 1913 Happy Birthday Danish\German Emil Nolde "Silver blue, sky blue & thunder blue. Every color holds a soul making me happy/repels me. Person who has no art in him, colors are colors & that is all. Consequences for human spirit which range from heaven to hell just go unnoticed." #art

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Emily A Garnett @emilyagarnett.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

"Gravel Fish & Soya Beans" Carl Gaetner 1898-1952 "The loading tower: 3 drifters loiter in a desolate industrial scene, yellow skies above & brownfields below. Not one blade of grass is seen. Besides the people, there is nothing alive in the painting. The lone tower speaks to ruin." #art #painters

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Emily A Garnett @emilyagarnett.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

"Aphelion" 1931 Stow Wengenroth "In astronomy, aphelion identifies the exact point in a celestial body's orbit it's farthest from the sun (farthest from its source of light & warmth); it's extreme remote isolation. A. Wyeth said 'America's greatest living artist using black&white'." #art #lithograph

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Emily A Garnett @emilyagarnett.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

"Bush in Bloom" Australian Yued Noongar artist Jessica Begg Birthplace: Born on Yued land in the town of Moora, Western Australia #AustralinPainters #art #artlover

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Emily A Garnett @emilyagarnett.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Summer-y! “Redlands Festival of Arts ” 2019 artist Elinore Schnurr (b. 1932) born in Sandusky Ohio #art #artlover #painters #summerpaintings

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Emily A Garnett @emilyagarnett.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

"Chiacchierì" chatting, gossip 1934 Italian Futurist Giacomo Balla (1871–1958) #art #artlover #ItalianArtist #painters

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Emily A Garnett @emilyagarnett.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

"Skiffs" 1877 Gustave Cailebotte 1848-1894 "Between 1877-78 Caillebotte made paintings of swimmers, fishermen, rowers&canoers. Never married, he seems to have had a serious relationship with Charlotte Berthier, 11 years his junior & of the lower class to whom he left a large annuity." #art #artlover

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Emily A Garnett @emilyagarnett.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Oh, Roman, in your younger days! Vogue-ing. I believe he was about 5 in this photo. (He's 12 now.) #cat #cats #catsky #catsofbluesky #catpics #catlover #catlove #BlueSkyCats #petsofbluesky #photography #petpics

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Emily A Garnett @emilyagarnett.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

"The Twins" Lea and Maura Carvalho Brazilian painter Alberto da Veiga Guignard (1986 - 1992) #art #artlover #painter #AbertoDaVeigaGuignard #twinsInArt

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Emily A Garnett @emilyagarnett.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

"Letting It Go" artist Hrvoje Majer (b. in Croatia, 1975) "I see myself as humanist. My main interest are people and their inner-life; their various emotional and psychological states, from self-hate and self-judging to self-acceptance and self-love." #art #artlover #HrvojeMajer #painters

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Emily A Garnett @emilyagarnett.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

"The Ghost World" 2020 Latvian artist Juli Soboleva

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Emily A Garnett @emilyagarnett.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

"El caballo en el pueblo" 1946 The Horse in the Village Happy Birthday to Cuban-born Chilean painter Mario Carreno (1913 - 1999)! #art #artlover #horsepainting #MarioCarreno #CubanArtists

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Emily A Garnett @emilyagarnett.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Woman on a Porch 1958 Richard Diebenkorn 1922–1993 "During his figurative period, Diebenkorn frequently used his wife Phyllis as model, a trained psychologist with Ph.D. from UC Berkeley. Many of his drawings&paintings depict her reading or sitting in contemplative domestic spaces." #art #figurative

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Emily A Garnett @emilyagarnett.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

La Patrie in de Sneeuw (La Patrie in the Snow) 1973 Dutch Hermanus Berserik 1921-2002 Designed by Henri Julliot, was ordered by French Army in 1906 &became famous for a bizarre 1907 incident where it broke loose from its ground crew&flew across the UK to the Atlantic completely unmanned." #PlaneArt

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Emily A Garnett @emilyagarnett.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

"Landscape" 1936 Arnold Wiltz b. today Berlin Germany 1889; died NY 1937. "His artwork known for blending Precisionism&Surrealism featuring architectural forms like a curved bridge&rolling hills. Often mistaken for Ashokan Dam spillway highlights engineered structures&natural landscape." #art #Wiltz

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Emily A Garnett @emilyagarnett.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

"Lithographer - George C. Miller" 1949 artist Ellison Hoover (1888 - 1955)

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Emily A Garnett @emilyagarnett.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

"The Bride" 1959 painter Antonio Lopez Garcia (b. 1936) The bride is holding the Ace of Cups from the Baraja Española which represents new romantic beginnings, deep connections, or a blossoming relationship.

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Emily A Garnett @emilyagarnett.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Stained glass mosaic on wood panel "Poppy from Italy" (2019) Russian-born American artist Yulia Hanansen (b. 1975) 18 x 24“

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Emily A Garnett @emilyagarnett.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

“I won’t hide it: I’m so unused to being-well, understood, perhaps, so unused to it, that in the very first minutes of our meeting I thought: this is a joke…But then…And there are things that are hard to talk about, you’ll rub off their marvelous pollen at the touch of a word." Nabokov #art #pollen

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Emily A Garnett @emilyagarnett.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

"The Postman (Italy)" Australian Richard Claremont (b. 1965) "Claremont worked for the Australia Post from 1988 to 2017 and made sketches while delivering mail. He became known as 'the painting postie' in media." #art #artlover #AustralianPainters #painting

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Emily A Garnett @emilyagarnett.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

"Pussy Willow" 1998 - 2004 British artist David Inshaw (b. 1943) known for his pastoral and often surrealist depictions of the British countryside. #art #artlover #painter #pussywillow #painting

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Emily A Garnett @emilyagarnett.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Story Told By My Mother 1955 "Arkansan Carroll Cloar 1913-1993. The black panther represents a mythic beast from his mother's stories; tales she told to instill a healthy sense of danger & caution in young Carroll; painting translates the story into a surreal memory-fueled dreamscape." #art #painter

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Emily A Garnett @emilyagarnett.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Light of the World 1932 Peter Blume (1906-1992) "Disquieting amalgamation of details from history as well as the artist’s life. It resembles Sherman CT where he & his wife settled in 1930, a cathedral inspired by Notre-Dame, a group of plaster cornices seen on display at the MOMA 1932. #art #painter

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Emily A Garnett @emilyagarnett.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

A Carnival Evening 1886 Happy Birthday Henri Rousseau "Ridiculed by critics, his work influenced generations of avant-garde artists. Wintry forest landscape. Festively dressed in carnival costumes, a couple stands in front of barren trees that shine from within, not from the moon." #art #painters

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Emily A Garnett @emilyagarnett.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

"Subway" 1934 Lily Furedi (1896–1969) "She takes interest in her fellow riders, portraying them sympathetically. Focusing on a musician sleeping in formal work clothes, holding a violin case. She would've identified with this NY musician; her father Samuel Furedi a professional cellist." #art #NYart

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