If you could have one famous work of art in your home so you could see it every day which would it be?
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Tikki
Boss: Why haven't you shown up?
: Escher redesigned my house and I can't get out!
Boy with Fox by Grace Hudson
Miners in the Sierras by Charles Nahl
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Steep Ravine Marin County California by Thaddeus Welch
Yes, I'm a native Californian
I've seen another Nahl painting at the Crocker Art museum in Sacramento. Curiously, I first saw a B&W print of it in one of my California history books (Bean) but the image inadvertently got reversed.
Sunday Morning in the Mines (Nahl sure loved them red flannel shirts!)
That last one by Thaddeus Welch is special in my heart for a number of reasons:
I hiked the Steep Ravine trail often a Brizzilion years ago
Thaddeus Welch was raised in Oregon (he traveled from Missouri to Oregon in a covered Wagon to Oregon as a child), but summered in my Podunk Sacramento Valley town where he met his deaf cousin, Dummy Dickson. He and Dickson attended the Royal Academy in Munich, Germany together. I own a painting by Dummy Dickson.
My aunt had one of Welch's famous cows in the pasture paintings. My cousin has it now, but my dream is to see the two paintings joined down the road.
On edit: I believe that Steep Ravine painting is misnamed, and it was actually his cottage in the Marin County hills (Somewhere out in San Geronimo Valley)
I would be hella proud to own the House by the Railroad from Edward Hopper.
Yes, it is the painting that inspired the house for the movie Psycho.
I'm also fond of the cottage collections from Dominic Davidson, Classic Tails from Charles Wysocki, and work from Marilynn Dwyer Mason.
Here's a sample of Marilynn Dwyer Mason's Bear Craft.
I'm definitely different when it comes to art.
I was like what is this delightful work?
The two main panels on the North and South walls depict laborers working at Ford Motor Company's River Rouge Plant. Other panels depict advances made in various scientific fields, such as medicine and new technology. The series of murals, taken as a whole, expresses the idea that all actions and ideas are one.
He's got some really great murals in San Francisco too, but this DIA installation is just amazing. If we could just recreate that Rivera Court in my living room, that'd be fine by me.
by Bob Ross.
Great post!
It's not even close for me.........Starry Night
I’m so glad someone else understands that viewing a great painting can make one cry!
I do have a print in my office.
-Except that my house isn't big enough. So maybe Whistler's Nocturne in Black and Gold.
Fur Traders by George Caleb Bingham 1845
Rest on the Flight into Egypt by Luc Olivier Merson 1879
I think I could look at this painting every day.
It was one of Van Gogh's last paintings, and the first one I saw in a museum that made me "get" his work.
I have a small reproduction on my wall, but the real thing would be nice. 
Title: Ten Verses on Oxherding
Period: Kamakura period (1185–1333)
Date: 1278
Culture: Japan
Medium: Handscroll; ink and color on paper
Dimensions: Image: 12 1/4 in. × 20 ft. 6 in. (31.1 × 624.8 cm)
The bull, sacred in India to Buddhists and Hindus alike, was accorded a special place in Chinese lore and in the teachings of Chan (J: Zen) Buddhism. Bulls are frequently mentioned in the Chan parables known as gongan (J: kōan), which were composed by Buddhist masters to help their pupils attain enlightenment. In these parables, which probably originated in the literature of ancient Indi a, the stages of an individual's journey toward enlightenment were likened, allegorically, to a herdsman's search for his runaway ox.[1] Most of the parables, which are known collectively as the Ten Ox-Herding Songs, were composed in the mid-eleventh century, and at least a dozen different versions are extant.[2] It is not known when the Ox-Herding Songs were first illustrated, but an edition was published with wood-block prints by the Southern Song priest Guoan Shi yuan (fl. ca. 1150). Some of these prints made their way to Japan, perhaps during the early years of the Kamakura period , and became extremely popular among Zen Buddhists, who had them reprinted; the copies served as models for later versions.[3]
This handscroll, acquired by the Burke Collection in 1999, is a rare work in many respects. It is both the earliest known Japanese copy of an illustrated Chinese example, predating by about two hundred years the better-known scroll in the collection of Shōkokuji, Kyoto,[4] and the only extant example with paintings in color. It is unusual in that it bears a dated inscription, in this case one that corresponds to the year 1278. Finally, it has survived intact, whereas most emaki of the Kamakura period have been cut apart and the sections dispersed.
The handscroll is composed of sections of text interspersed with painted scenes, ten in all. At the beginning is a preface, entitled "The Ten Ox-Herding Songs by the Monk Guoan, of Liangshan, Dingzhou," attributed to a disciple of Guoan named Ciyuan, which explains in twenty-four lines the basic doctrine of Buddhism—that all sentient beings possess the potential to attain Buddhahood. The preface is followed by the allegory of the ox herder, a seeker of truth. Each of the ten steps he must take to achieve enlightenment is represented by a heading, an explanatory paragraph in prose, and a four-line verse that reiterates the concept expressed in the prose section. The verse is followed by a picture in a circular frame, which most likely symbolizes the primary Zen principles of perfection and completion. At the end of the scroll is an inscription that gives the date as "Kōan boin chūshun" —the eighth month of the first year of the Kōan era (1278)—as well as a name that may be read as Kōgi or Kōgi's kao, an abbreviated signature.
The ten scenes of the Ox-Herding Songs describe the progress of Everyman (the herdboy) toward enlightenment, accompanied by the True Self (the ox). As the boy proceeds, the distance between them is diminished, until eventually they are brought together. Their unity in the Absolute is symbolized by the circle of nothingness in the eighth scene (h).[5]
I viewed the original in a museum in my wife’s home town of Otsu, Japan.
It is 34 feet long and has many scenes on it.
"Museum of American Indians and Western Art." I was able to visit when I was in Indy for the Olympic Track & Field Trials. 1988? I think. Wish I'd had more than an afternoon to spend there.
Also, the original, "Color of Sun," by Howard Terpning. I was able to bid on one of the prints last year, but a dealer came along and gobbled it up. I had a fine art education and studied most of the classics, but this is where my heart is. Besides, a Monet just wouldn't go with our log cabin!
This work almost knocked my socks off!
Joy Of Life by Matisse
It's large (8' X 6')
It's bright and colorful
It's abstract and representational
It's peaceful, pastoral and beautiful
It's shocking and outrageous
It looks like something a wild beast would paint, dangerous maybe
However after a few days thought maybe this isn't the painting for my living quarters. Too much yellow I prefer cooler colors. For many years the owners of the painting only allowed black and white reproductions to be released to the public and when they finally allowed color it was stunning I had expected a lot of greens.
Plus people might start mistaking me for a Hugh Hefner type especially if I start wearing a bathrobe while I entertain guests!
Maybe something by Chagall. This one sold in 2007 for only 16 million dollars!
Probably the greatest painting in history and the inspiration for Cubism. It is also profoundly calming and exciting at the same time. I don't think I have a large enough wall for it, though.
Will need to raise the ceiling a bit. I have a smaller 8 foot knockoff version of it already but to accommodate the original 13’ x 10’ would require some modifications.
Seriously, don't sweat the small stuff.
Nice choice by the way, maxrandb! I'm a Hopper admirer.
The Flood, A Deluge Scene, 1806 Painting by Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
I’m a sucker for dynamic figurative work. 🤷🏻♂️
Edit to add, I’d treasure just about anything by Hopper…I love the way he captured light, especially sunlight.
I'm sure you will find a welcoming audience. I'd love to see it!
... I could close the doors any time I wanted, without a museum guard yelling at me.
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Oh, yes I think it worked!
The Dream Of The Architect"
Thomas Cole
look rightward up from the center, and you'll see The Pyramid, too. 👍
Which I think made it all the more Wonderful! 🧡
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