Chambers Street and the Municipal Building, N.Y.C. - Colin Campbell Cooper (1922) (upload.wikimedia.org)
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Note: this piece is also referred to as the “Paint-Makers Plight”...
Not often you see an accomplished artist make such an direct and confronting self portrait.
The way he captures light is beautiful
Reminds me of Copland
Classic Baroque style
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One of the greatest paintings of its time IMHO, unlike many Dutch masterpieces of the era (portraits for the wealthy merchants), it captures a woman of low standing going about a routine task, in brilliant detail and composition....
Encaustic paint on wood, one of the better preserved Fayuum mummy portraits.