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The Women Reading series will run from August 2011 through December 2011.

The Italian Model or The Italian Girl (1924) by Mabel Alvarez
About the artist: Mabel Alvarez (Nov. 28, 1891 - Mar. 13, 1985) will be remembered for her contributions to California Impressionism, as well as to figure, still-life, and portrait painting. Collectors and scholars will continue to study the significant role she played during the fitful and sporadic emergence of Southern California Modernism, when there were so few willing to extend the boundaries of locally accepted painting. Finally, the art of Mabel Alvarez will be admired and enjoyed by generations to come for its sensitive and thoroughly professional legacy on canvas, one of sensual variety, quiet contemplation, exuberance, and joy. (Bio excerpt via Will South for MabelAlvarez.com)
More info on this artist: Mabel Alvarez papers at Archives of American Art, artist bio provided by Orange County Museum of Art
More works by this artist: Still Life (1920s), Self-portrait (1920s), Self-portrait (1923), In the Garden (1925), Still Life with Book (1929), Myself (1929), Self-portrait (c. 1945), The Artist in Her Studio (c. 1945), Self-portrait (1945), Self-portrait (1945)
Found here: American Gallery
Found by: Lyrika Publicis - Sasha Soren (Random Magic)

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Women Reading in a Garden (1903) by Henri Matisse
Additional details: Oil on canvas. Private collection. 23.7 x 33 cms. Start date 1902, completion date 1903.
About the artist: Henri Matisse’s discovery of his true profession came about in an unusual manner. Following an attack of appendicitis, he began to paint in 1889, when his mother had brought him art supplies during the period of convalescence. He said later, ‘From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.’
Matisse’s mother was the first to advise her son not to adhere to the ‘rules’ of art, but rather listen to his own emotions. Matisse was so committed to his art that he later extended a warning to his fiancée, Amélie Parayre: ‘I love you dearly, mademoiselle; but I shall always love painting more.’ Matisse had discovered ‘a kind of paradise’ as he later described it.
The first painting of Matisse acquired by a public collection was Still Life with Geraniums (1910), exhibited in the Pinakothek der Moderne. Today, a Matisse painting can fetch as much as US $17 million. In 2002, a Matisse sculpture, Reclining Nude I (Dawn), sold for US $9.2 million, a record for a sculpture by the artist. (Bio excerpts via Henri-Matisse.net)
More works by this artist: Self-portrait (1900), The Green Line (1905), The Red Room (Harmony in Red) (1908), The Black Table (1919), The White Plumes (1919), Woman in Yellow and Blue with a Guitar (1939), The Lute (1943)
Found here: Wiki Paintings
Found by: Lyrika Publicis - Sasha Soren (Random Magic)

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Lois Reading by Wilson Henry Irvine (1869-1936)
Additional details: Not included by the poster (American Gallery).
About the artist: Irvine is best known for his mastery of light and texture. To capture subtle effects of light, Irvine often painted en plein air, wearing his trademark cap, knickers, and goatee, with his easel and his paints set up in the field.
Sometimes his obsession with light led him to paint rather pedestrian subjects - landscapes depicting little more than some trees, or a road or fence. But a number of Irvine masterpieces depict well-composed scenes including houses, boats, bridges - even a handful of portraits, including at least one self-portrait and a nude. (Via: Wikipedia)
More works by this artist: Tea Party with the Artist’s Daughter, Lois (Guarisco Gallery), Old Mexico Street, Chehaw Combahee Plantation, Winter Brook (incl. brief essay), Autumn, Teatime (Lois and Betty-June) (Christie’s), Spring Landscape (Sommerville Manning), Lady in Red, Evening in the Harbor, Woman in Orchard (Cooley Gallery via ArtFix Daily), gallery at American Gallery.
Additional works by (American) Impressionists, or painters with a similar or related style: The Yellow Parasol by Louis L. Betts; Pauline by Helen Maria Turner; By the Arbor by Anna Catherine Wiley; The Brahms Waltz by Robert McGill Mackall; Portrait of Tony by Ellsworth Woodward; Path in a Southern Garden by Alfred Hutty; Savannah Harbor by Eliot Candee Clark; Avenue of Oaks at Litchfield Plantation by Elizabeth O’Neill Verner and Afternoon at the Beach, Chesapeake Bay by Gladys Nelson Smith.
Found here: American Gallery, Morris Museum of Art (works by other painters)
Found by: Lyrika Publicis - Sasha Soren (Random Magic)

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The Novel by Edward Cucuel (1875-1954)
Additional details: Oil on canvas. 31 5/8 x 31 5/8 inches (approximately 80.31 x 80.31 centimeters). Signed, lower right.
About the artist: (Bio excerpt source is Vallejo Gallery): Worldly artist Edward Cucuel painted beauty he observed firsthand. Devoted to art from an early age, he managed to bring forth the best theories of the Impressionists with charming scenes of color and light, but in his own style.
Born in San Francisco, California, Cucuel’s artistic pursuits eventually led him to New York, then to Paris and Germany. He set up summer studios in Holzhausen, Munich and Starnberg, and spend winters in New York.
On canvas, Cucuel favored portraits of women, and narrative settings featuring women at leisure in bright interiors, gardens and at green shorelines. In his later years he returned to the United States and spent his last years in Pasadena, California. (Source: Vallejo Gallery)
Additional works by this artist: Summer Dreaming, Afternoon Tea, Quiet Hour, Woman Reclining by a Lake, Autumn Sun, The Bathers, An Afternoon on the Lake, Tea in the Park, The Pink Dress, House by the River and others.
Found here: Clarke Galleries
Found by: Lyrika Publicis - Sasha Soren (Random Magic)

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Woman Reading (1894) by Henri Matisse
Additional details: As of posting, held at Musée National d’Arte Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. An in-depth biography of this painter may be read here. This particular painting is more subdued, compared to some of his later works, a sampling of which maybe be browsed below (selections from 1905 through 1919).
Additional works by this artist: Woman with a Hat (1905), Open Window at Collioure (1905), Madras Rouge (1907), Girl with Tulips (1910), The Window (1916), My Room at the Beau-Rivage (1918), The Black Table (1919)

Found here: HenriMatisse.net
Found by: Lyrika Publicis - Sasha Soren (Random Magic)

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The Love Letter (c. 1770) by Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806)
Additional details: Oil on canvas. 32 3/4 x 26 3/8 ins. (83.2 x 67 cms.) As of posting date, this painting held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (abbrev. MMA, loc. New York City, NY, U.S.).
The MMA provides this brief bit of info about the painting: The inscription on this painting is not completely legible. It has been read as ‘À Monsieur Cuvillier,’ the son-in-law of the painter François Boucher, and, more generally, as ‘to my cavalier.’ In any case, it is the young woman who is dispatching the letter. The painting probably dates from the 1770s.
Additional works by this artist: The Swing (1767), Young Girl Reading (c. 1770), Inspiration (1789) - thought to be self-portrait of the artist, MMA gallery (incl. artist bio)
Additional details: More information on 18th-century French Rococo style, focusing on paintings in this style: Rococo paintings and painters and cute post containing image of work above, by unnamed costume historian at The Ornamented Being.
Found here: MMA - Timeline of Art History
Found by: Lyrika Publicis - Sasha Soren (Random Magic)

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Interiør med røde valmuer by Anna Ancher
Additional details: English translation of the title is Interior with Poppies and Reading Woman. German translation of the title is Interieur mit Mohnblumen und lesender Frau. Sitter is Lizzy Hohlenberg. Oil on canvas. 56.2 x 65 cms.
Additional works by this artist: Gallery
Found here: Book Calendar, Wikimedia
Found by: Lyrika Publicis - Sasha Soren (Random Magic)

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Woman Reading in a Garden (1880) by Mary Cassatt
Additional details: Private collection. Oil on canvas. 65.659 x 90.17 cms. (25.85 x 35.50 ins.)
Additional works by this artist: Gallery
Found here: MaryCassatt.org, ARC (details info)
Found by: Lyrika Publicis - Sasha Soren (Random Magic)

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Forbidden Books (1897) by Alexander Rossi
Additional details: Oil on canvas. Signed and dated 1897. 40 x 60 inches (101.6 x 152.4 centimeters). Exhibited at The Royal Academy, London, 1897 (#199)
Found here: Eras of Elegance, Rehs Galleries (details info)
Found by: Lyrika Publicis - Sasha Soren (Random Magic)

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Two Women Reading by Robert Lewis Reid
Additional details: No dates listed. Private collection. Oil on canvas. Height: 83.82 cms. (33 ins.), Width: 76.2 cms. (30 ins.)
Additional works by this artist: Gallery
Found here: The Athenaeum
Found by: Lyrika Publicis - Sasha Soren (Random Magic)

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Autumn Lights by John Ferguson Weir
Found here: Christie’s
Additional info (per Christie’s): Autumn Lights, John Ferguson Weir (1841-1926), signed ‘J.F. Weir’ (lower left). Oil on canvas, 9.5 x 7.5 ins. (24.1 x 19.1 cms.)
Found by: Lyrika Publicis - Sasha Soren (Random Magic)

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Der Bücherwurm (The Bookworm) by Hermann Fenner-Behmer (1866–1913).
Date: Not established, possibly circa 1906 or 1910. Farbenlichtdruck um 1910 (Light-colored print in 1910).
Image source: Christa Pieske: Bilder für jedermann. Wandbilddrucke 1840–1940 (Schriften des Museums für Deutsche Volkskunde, Berlin 15). Keyser, München 1988, ISBN 3-87405-188-9
Found here: Wikipedia
Found by: Lyrika Publicis - Sasha Soren (Random Magic)

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Portrait of a Young Woman Reading by Angelo Asti (French, 1847-1903)
Additional details: Signed ‘A. Asti’ (lower right). Oil on panel, 18.25 x 12.5 ins. (46.2 x 32 cm), in a period frame.
Found here: Skinner Auctioneers and Appraisers
Found by: Lyrika Publicis - Sasha Soren (Random Magic)

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Reading by a Window
Federico Zandomeneghi - No dates listed
Private collection
Painting - oil on canvas
Height: 54.61 cm (21.5 in.), Width: 46.36 cm (18.25 in.)
Found here: The Atheneum
Found by: Lyrika Publicis - Sasha Soren (Random Magic)

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Reading a Book, by James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Additional details: Date not given.
Found here: Golden Age Paintings
Found by: Lyrika Publicis - Sasha Soren (Random Magic)

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