ca 1900, Venzenz Mayer's Sohnne. French and Viennese Art Nouveau.
1876, Camille Pissarro, Oil on Canvas. From the placard, "This painting is an unusual subject for Pissarro, who typically preferred more rustic scenes. Here we see a comfortable, middle-class environment, whose peace and prosperity are enjoyed by the well-dressed woman in white. To her right is a glass reflecting ball, and the arrangement of the garden demonstrates the 19th century fashion for flowers with bright, strong colors. At the time this picture was painted, Pizzarro was atempting to give more structure to his loose, Impressionist style. He does so through the solid contrasts of complementary colors - red and green, and blue and orange - and dense brushwork applied with small strokes."
1889, Vincent van Gogh, Oil on canvas. From the placard, "This is a late work by van Gogh executed at a time when his style was at its most agitated and expressive. It is one of a series of olive orchards painted while the artist was a patient at the asylum in Saint Remy in Provence, where he had committed himself after suffering a series of mental breakdowns. Van Gogh refers to the painting in a letter of July 1889 as an orchard of olive trees with gray leaves, "their violet shadows lying on the sunny sand." These shadows admirably convey the scorching heat of the Provencal sun, and the repetitive rectanbular brush strokes establish curving patterns of energy that heighten the emotional effect."
