The 167 Artworks containing the word cotton

In 1889 Sarah Featon and her husband Edward Featon published The Art Album of New Zealand Flora, in which they sought to dispute the ‘mistaken notion that New Zealand is peculiarly destitute of native flowers’. While the title emphasises the artistic nature of their enterprise, in the preface they d...

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Edgar Degas, one of the most renowned artists of the Impressionist movement, created Portraits in a New Orleans Cotton Office, an oil painting that captures the essence of his uncle's cotton brokerage business during its bankruptcy. This 1873 masterpiece is not only a testament to Degas' skill but a...

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Winslow Homer's The Cotton Pickers is a poignant oil painting that captures the essence of rural life and the struggles of African-American women in the post-Civil War era. Created in 1876, this masterpiece is now part of the esteemed collection at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). A Gl...

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This work is an intimate photographic portrait of the young Australian photographer Max Dupain. The photograph was taken five years after Olive Cotton came to work at Dupain’s photographic studio, and shortly after the pair married in 1939.It shows the handsome, young Dupain fresh from surfing. Atte...

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