~ Hasse Bredenberg

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Hasse Bredenberg (Hans Erik),
born December 13 1957 in Frykerud , Värmland ,
Swedish artist (painter).
He has galleries in Skirö , Småland.
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~Sunday Poem

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Send sunflowers!
With my turkey-bone whistle
I am calling the birds
To sing upon the sunflowers.
For when the clouds hear them singing
They will come quickly,
And rain will fall upon our fields.
Send sunflowers!

by Amy Lowell (1874-1925)
photo found here!

~Julia Bekhova

LINK HERE!

~Jane Maria Bowkett

 

 

A young lady in a conservatory", by Jane Maria Bowkett
(1837-1891)
From the BBC book "The victorian flower garden".

~ Rosie Lauren Smith

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The name of this wonderful artist is
Rosie Lauren Smith

CLICK HERE to visit her Blog!
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~Winter….

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Winter Just Won’t Go Away!
Art by Yvonne Gilbert

~Masha Kurbatova

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CLICK HERE 
to see more of Masha’s Art
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And HERE to visit her Blog!
with thanks to Julia Mensjikow for the Link.
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~Edith Prellwitz

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1864-1944 
As a young woman, Edith Mitchill Prellwitz was
determined to study art and began taking classes
at the Art Students League.
In 1887, at the suggestion of her teacher George
de Forest Brush, she enrolled in the Life Class,
where nude models were used--a defining step for a
young female artist in those days and one that
determined her course as a serious professional.
She married the artist Henry Prellwitz, and with
the painters Irving Wiles and Edward August Bell,
established an artists’ colony in Peconic, New York,
on the North Fork of Long Island.
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An Early Morning Stroll ca. 1900
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Girl with Violin, ca. 1910s
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~Sunday Poem

When the nights are done
And we see the sun
A new day dawns
With hope for some
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When the fairies of spring
With warm breath breathe
The snow from the winters
Will leave their freeze

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When the bellies of clouds
Can hold no more
They spread their rains
To wash earths shores
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When the grub that lived
Leaves its cocoon
On the flight of wings
Will play till noon

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When the days are done
And we lay us down
The stars will twinkle
In the moons playground

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When the ends that come
Make it hard to see
There is something new
To set us free.
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Poem by Robyn Blauw
Art by George Elgar Hicks
1824 - 1914

~Jarosław Kukowski

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~Michelle Ryan

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CLICK HERE to visit Michelle’s website!
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~Albert Herter

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Albert Herter (1871–1950) was an artist and painter.
He was born in New York, New York, and studied
in Paris and then in New York's Art Students League.
He had come from an artistic family; before Albert
was born, his father, Christian Herter, and his father's
half-brother Gustave formed Herter Brothers,
a prominent New York interior design
and furnishings firm.

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~ Iwona Chmielewska

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Iwona is a writer, designer and illustrator from Poland,
but apparently she is best known and loved in Korea.
READ MORE (in Polish)
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~Alice

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by Cathy Delanssay

~Quote

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Far out in the ocean, where the water is as
blue as the prettiest cornflower, and as clear as
crystal, it is very, very deep; so deep,
indeed,
that no cable could fathom it:
many church steeples, piled one upon another,
would not reach from the ground beneath to the
surface of the water above.
There dwell the Sea King and his subjects.

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by Hans Christian Andersen
The Little Mermaid
Illustration by Edmund Dulac
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The Magic Mirror by Helen Jacobs

(1880 - 1970, UK)

~Kasie Sallee

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Her name is Kasie Sallee,
She lives in Oklahoma, USA

You can visit Kasie’s  BLOG  HERE
Read more about the artist
on her WEBSITE!
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~Antonio Javier Caparo

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Antonio Caparo is a Cuban born illustrator
currently living and working in Toronto, Canada.

Caparo studied graphic design at the High Institute
of Design in Havana and devoted much of his early
career to design, but gradually sifted
his focus to illustration. MORE HERE...
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CLICK HERE to visit his Lovely Blog
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by Edmund Dulac, 1906
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E was an exquisite Elf
Who enjoyed being quite by herself
She delighted to play
In an elegant way
With things she found on a shelf.

~Sue Halstenberg

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Sue Halstenberg began her career as a fashion
illustrator for the Southern California
department stores. To further expand her
creative abilities as a fine artist,
she studied plein air figure painting in pastels with
George Carlson at Scottsdale Artists School in
Arizona. A few years later she started her own
business, accepting commissions for portrait
and figure paintings.
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Above you see her pastel painting “Victoria” 
It was featured
on the cover of American Artist Magazine and
Sue was juried in as a Signature Member of
the Pastel Society of America, New York.
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LINK!
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