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Public Content Winter's Colors - Perspectives No. 365
Dec 26, 2018
Winter Stream, 16 x 20", Oil, © Matthew Richter
Member Content Season of Color - Perspectives No. 364
Dec 20, 2018
EnChroma Comparison Image from Venice
Member Content A Good Start - Perspectives No. 363
Dec 13, 2018
Van Gogh Painting Sunflowers, 1888, Paul Gauguin
Member Content Exception to the Rule - Perspectives No. 362
Nov 27, 2018
February Sunlight, John F. Carlson
Member Content Feeding the Turkey - Perspectives No. 361
Nov 20, 2018
Feeding the Turkey, 1880, Eastman Johnson
Member Content Go with It - Perspectives No. 360
Nov 1, 2018
A Turn in the Road at Auvers, 1873, Paul Cezanne
Member Content Dream On - Perspectives No. 359
Oct 25, 2018
Small Dream in Red, 1925, Wassily Kandinsky
Member Content Camouflage and Nature - Perspectives No. 358
Oct 17, 2018
Illustration by Abott Handerson Thayer
Public Content An Imperfect Mirror - Perspectives No. 357
Sep 26, 2018
On the Pond II, 36 x 36", Oil, © John Hulsey
Member Content Let's Go! - Perspectives No. 356
Sep 20, 2018
oil painting of the Dordogne Valley by John Hulsey
Member Content Like a Fine Wine - Perspectives No. 355
Aug 29, 2018
The Water Lilies: Green Reflections, ca. 1915 -26, Claude Monet
Member Content G'Day Viewers - Perspectives No. 354
Aug 16, 2018
The Colour in Your Life Crew Filming John Hulsey
Member Content Drop, Ripple, Wave - Perspectives No. 353
Aug 1, 2018
Marine, Pourville, 1881, Claude Monet
Member Content Super Models - Perspectives No. 352
Jul 26, 2018
Photograph of Gondola Model
Member Content Imagination - Perspectives No. 351
Jul 19, 2018
Detail from a Palette Knife Painting © J. Hulsey
Member Content In Search of the Ideal - Perspectives No. 350
Jun 28, 2018
The Effects of Good Government in the Countryside, 1338, Fresco, City Hall of Siena, Ambrogio Lorenzetti
Member Content Is Travel Abroad Still Worth It? - Perspectives No. 349
Jun 21, 2018
Photograph of Students Plein Air Painting in Tuscany © J. Hulsey
Member Content Customs - Perspectives No. 348
May 23, 2018
The Bridge of Sighs, ca. 1905-08, John Singer Sargent
Member Content Art in the Worst of Times - Perspectives No. 347
May 16, 2018
Butterly by Margit Koretz a student of Fredrika Dicker-Brandeis in the Theresienstadt concentration camp
Member Content The Colors of the Night - Perspectives No. 346
Apr 26, 2018
The Colors of the Night Palette
Member Content The Night is Ours Again - Perspectives No. 345
Apr 18, 2018
Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose by John Singer Sargent
Member Content What Do You Call That? - Perspectives No. 344
Mar 28, 2018
Angels and Clementines 12 x 24 Oil detail © Ann Trusty
Member Content The Price of Fame - Perspectives No. 343
Mar 21, 2018
A Reconstruction of the Theft of the Mona Lisa
Member Content Before Hollywood - Perspectives No. 342
Feb 28, 2018
Detail of the Panorama of the Monumental Grandeur of the Mississippi by John Egan
Public Content Icebound - Perspectives from The Artist's Road
Feb 21, 2018
Frozen Lake Early Spring, Algonquin Park, 1914, A. Y. Jackson
Member Content Double Vision - Perspectives No. 340
Feb 14, 2018
Iceland Spar
Member Content Thinking in Color - Perspectives No. 339
Jan 31, 2018
A chart from 1746 by Jacques-Fabien Gautier
Member Content Loving Vincent - Perspectives No. 338
Jan 24, 2018
Self Portrait in Straw Hat, 1887, van Gogh
Member Content The Nature of All Things - Perspectives No. 337
Jan 17, 2018
Deatil from oil painting © John Hulsey
Public Content Foresight - Perspectives No.336
Jan 2, 2018
oil painting of forest and deer, Transcendence, by John Hulsey
Member Content Memory Lane - Perspectives No. 335
Dec 28, 2017
Photograph of Jon Gnagy
Member Content Caillebotte's Gift - Perspectives No. 334
Dec 21, 2017
Portraits in the Countryside, 1876, Gustave Caillebotte
Member Content Opening Up - Perspectives No. 333
Dec 14, 2017
Solstice House Studios Front Door
Member Content The Color that Changed the World - Perspectives. No. 332
Nov 29, 2017
The Great Wave off Kanagawa, ca. 1829-33, Color Woodblock, Hokusai
Member Content Thankfully - Perspectives No. 331
Nov 15, 2017
Turkeys, Pont-Aven, 1888, Paul Gauguin
Member Content Do You Know Your Neighbors - Perspectives No. 330
Nov 15, 2017
Closing Autumn, 1924, Willard Metcalf
Member Content Are You Free? - Perspectives No. 329
Nov 1, 2017
What a Freedom!, 1903, Ilia Efimovich Repin
Member Content Violettomania - Perspectives No. 328
Oct 25, 2017
Le Printemps 1886 Claude Monet
Member Content The Green Gap - Perspectives No. 327
Oct 18, 2017
Pine Forest II, 1901, Gustav Klimt
Member Content Cecilia Beaux - Perspectives No. 326
Oct 11, 2017
Half-Tide, Annisquam River, ca. 1905, Cecilia Beaux
Member Content Weathering the Weather - Perspectives No. 325
Sep 27, 2017
Dawn in Dubois watercolor © J. Hulsey
Member Content A Call to Artists - Perspectives No. 324
Sep 13, 2017
Sunrise at Tailgate RanchSaveSave
Member Content Old Warriors - Perspectives No. 323
Sep 13, 2017
Thomas Paquette's BrushSaveSaveSave
Member Content Green Death - Perspectives No. 322
Aug 30, 2017
19th Century Wallpaper by William MorrisSaveSave
Member Content Timing is Everything - Perspectives No. 321
Aug 24, 2017
Watercolor by Joseph ZbukvicSave
Member Content The Path of Totality - Perspectives No. 320
Aug 16, 2017
Solar Eclipse, 1851, Brengt NordenbergSave
Member Content Glazing and Scumbling - Perspectives No. 319
Jul 26, 2017
Yacht Approaching the Coast, ca. 1840-45, J. M. W. TurnerSaveSaveSaveSave
Member Content Regrets, I've Had a Few - Perspectives No. 318
Jul 26, 2017
The Original Madame X by SargentSaveSave
Member Content Artists of the Ghost Army - Perspectives No. 317
Jul 19, 2017
Watercolor, Briey, 1945, by Ellsworth KellySaveSaveSaveSaveSave
Member Content Paper and Ink - Perspectives No. 316
Jul 12, 2017
Document Corrosion from Iron Gall InkSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSave
Member Content Dreamers - Perspectives No. 315
Jun 28, 2017
Scarborough © Malcolm LudvigsenSaveSaveSaveSaveSave
Member Content Fireflies - Perspectives No. 314
Jun 21, 2017
Nocturne: Night Ramble-Fireflies © J. HulseySaveSaveSave
Member Content Franz Bischoff - Perspectives No. 313
Jun 14, 2017
Vista Arroyo by Franz BischoffSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSave
Member Content Turner's Gumtion - Perspectives No. 312
May 31, 2017
J.M.W. Turner, Venice: the Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore, 1834SaveSave
Member Content Making Your Mark - Perspectives No. 311
May 24, 2017
Detail of Sorolla Painting, Vision of SpainSaveSaveSaveSave
Member Content Conducting Metal - Perspectives No. 310
May 17, 2017
Red Wolf Bronze © J. HulseySave
Member Content One Hundred Million Colors - Perspectives No. 309
May 10, 2017
Filters Used to Create Artificial TetrachromatsSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSave
Member Content Shall I Compare Thee? - Perspectives No. 308
Apr 26, 2017
Rainbow Lorikeets (creative commons)SaveSaveSaveSave
Member Content Racing the Sun - Perspectives No. 307
Apr 19, 2017
Summer Brome Study © John HulseySave
Member Content Les Tournesols - Perspectives No. 306
Apr 12, 2017
Four Withered Sunflowers, Vincent van GoghSaveSaveSave
Member Content The Gremlin Color - Perspectives No. 305
Mar 29, 2017
The Blue Pot, PIerre Bonnard, (fair use)SaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSave
Member Content Painting in a Fog - Perspectives No. 304
Mar 22, 2017
Fog Exercise ArtSaveSaveSave
Member Content Passive Aggressive Art - Perspectives No. 303
Mar 15, 2017
King Cole Mural by Maxfield ParrishSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSave
Member Content Ebb and Flow - Perspectives No. 302
Mar 8, 2017
Photograph of the Ocean © J. HulseySaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSave
Member Content Endowment - Perspectives No. 301
Feb 22, 2017
Detail from The Creaton of Adam by MichelangeloSaveSaveSaveSave
Public Content The Blue Shift - Perspectives No. 300
Feb 15, 2017
Nocturne, Railway Crossing, Chicago, 1892-93, Childe HassamSaveSaveSaveSaveSave
Member Content The Rise of the Synthetic Weasel - Perspectives No. 299
Feb 1, 2017
Mustela sibirica by Johann Christian Daniel von SchreberSaveSaveSaveSaveSave
Member Content Creativity Stew - Perspectives No. 298
Jan 25, 2017
Ring Nebula Hubble ImageSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSave
Public Content Les Camoufleurs - Perspectives No. 297
Jan 18, 2017
Traditional French Military Uniforms 1914SaveSaveSaveSaveSave
Member Content A Mountain of Canvases - Perspectives No. 296
Jan 11, 2017
Waterloo Bridge, Sunlight Effect, 1903, Claude MonetSaveSaveSave
Member Content To Nourish the Roots of Our Culture - Perspectives No. 295
Dec 28, 2016
Photograph of Robert Frost with John F. KennedySaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSave
Public Content Christmas Presence - Perspectives No. 294
Dec 21, 2016
A Matter of Opinion © Laura G. YoungSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSave
Member Content Beware the Portrait - Perspectives No. 293
Dec 14, 2016
Sketch of Winston Churchill by Graham SutherlandSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSave
Member Content Art Belongs to Everyone - Perspectives No. 292
Nov 29, 2016
Flyer Announcing the Vincent Price Art Collection at SearsSaveSaveSaveSaveSave
Member Content From the Heart - Perspectives No. 291
Nov 23, 2016
The Triumph of Music by Marc ChagallSaveSave
Member Content Ancient Trees and Ancient Words - Perspectives No. 290
Nov 16, 2016
Photograph of the Nelson Atkins Museum © J. HulseySaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSave
Member Content Ernest Blumenschein - Perspectives No. 289
Nov 9, 2016
Superstition by Ernest BlumenscheinSave
Member Content Turning over the Leaves - Perspectives No. 288
Oct 26, 2016
Torn and Tattered II, 20 x 20", Oil, © Ann TrustySaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSave
Member Content A Giant in the Field - Perspectives No. 287
Oct 12, 2016
Easels Ready to Paint Sunflower FieldSaveSaveSaveSave
Public Content Butterfly Vision - Perspectives No. 286
Sep 12, 2016
33 Little Girls Chasing Butterflies, 1958, Max Ernst, fair useSaveSaveSaveSaveSave
Member Content Excess Baggage - Perspectives No. 285
Sep 12, 2016
Seated on a Suitcase, 1913-1915, Edvard MunchSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSave
Member Content What's a Yupo? - Perspectives No. 284
Aug 31, 2016
In the Yard, 9.5 x 13, watercolor on Yupo, © John HulseySaveSave
Member Content The Royal Tour Artist - Perspectives No. 283
Aug 24, 2016
Photograph of Warwick Fuller and his PaintingSaveSave
Member Content Keep Painting - Perspectives No. 282
Aug 13, 2016
At Joinville, 1896, Robert HenriSaveSave
Member Content Cosmic Latte - Perspectives No. 281
Jul 27, 2016
Starry Night in BeigeSave
Member Content The Art of Seeing - Part III - Perspectives No. 280
Jul 20, 2016
The Cow, 1910, Wassilly KandinskySaveSave
Member Content A Forgotten Impressionist - Perspectives No. 279
Jul 13, 2016
Water Lily, ca. 1910, Vaclav RadimskySaveSave
Member Content A Chair with Your Name on It - Perspectives No. 278
Jun 22, 2016
Workshop Class in AbiquiSaveSaveSave
Member Content The Spirit of Art - Perspectives No. 277
Jun 15, 2016
Twachtman and Homer PaintingsSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSave
Member Content Hidden Treasures - Perspectives No. 276
Jun 9, 2016
Tobacco Plant by John Steuart CurrySave
Public Content The Island of the Colorblind - Perspectives No. 275
May 26, 2016
After the Rain Plyos 1889 Isaac LevitanSave
Member Content The Eye of the Beholder - Perspectives No. 274
May 16, 2016
Storming Clearing © John Hulsey
Member Content Another Signpost - Perspectives No. 273
Apr 28, 2016
oil painting of creek and landscape by Birger Sandzen
Member Content The Return of the Prodigal Color - Perspectives No. 272
Apr 21, 2016
Painting of Claude Monet by SargentSave
Member Content Getting a Grip - Perspectives No. 271
Apr 14, 2016
Oil Painting of a Lady with a Guitar, 1911, Konstantin Korovin.jpgSaveSave
Member Content The Artist's Eyes -- Perspectives No. 270
Mar 31, 2016
Photograph of Monet's GlassesSave
Member Content A Master of Watercolor - Perspectives No. 269
Mar 24, 2016
Long House Sunlight watercolor 28 x 36 ©Gerald FritzlerSave
Member Content Glowing Lanterns - Perspectives No. 268
Mar 9, 2016
Photo of Narcissus blooming in a wood
Member Content Where's the Money - Perspectives No. 267
Feb 24, 2016
Self Portrait as an Artist, 1888, Vincent van Gogh
Member Content The Devil in the Details - Perspectives No. 266
Feb 10, 2016
Detail from Sorolla Painting
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