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Umberto Boccioni | Dynamism of a Soccer Player
Dynamism of a Soccer Player, oil on canvas by Umberto Boccioni, 1913; in the Museum of Modern Art, New York City. 193.2 × 201 cm.
Umberto Boccioni | The Street Pavers, 1914
Oil on canvas
39 3/8 x 39 3/8 in.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Bequest of Lydia Winston Malbin, 1989
Initially titled Il lavoro (Labor), Boccioni worked for nearly a year on La città sale or The City Rises, 1910, a huge (2m by 3m) painting, which is considered his turning point into Futurism.
Today it's frequently on prominent display at the Museum of Modern art in New York.
By the end of 1913, Umberto Boccioni had completed what is considered his masterpiece, Forme uniche della continuità nello spazio (Unique Forms of Continuity in Space), in wax.
Umberto Boccioni | Three Women, 1909-10, oil on canvas
Banca Commerciale Italiana
Umberto Boccioni (19 October 1882 – 17 August 1916) was an influential Italian artist.
#ItalianArtist #BornOnThiDay #SelfPortrait
Jennings Tofel | Family with Dog
oil on canvas
12x16 inches
#DogsInArt
Jennings Tofel, South of Lincoln Square, ca. 1934, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the U.S. Department of Labor, 1964.1.7
Jennings Tofel, Moonlight in Bermuda, 1922?, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Arthur and Anne Granick, 1986.39
Jennings Tofel | Flower Vendor, 1928, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Arthur and Anne Granick, 1983.35.2
Jennings (Yehuda) Tofel (originally Idel Taflewicz or Taflowicz) (18 October 1891 - 7 September 1959), Jewish American painter, poet and essayist.
Amateur Painter, 1952, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Arthur and Anne Granick, 1979.13.2
#ArtistBirthday
Roderic O'Conor | Field of Corn, 1892, oil on canvas, 38 x 38 cm., Pont Aven, Ulster Museum
Roderic O'Conor | Red Roofs, ca. 1894, oil on canvas, 31.8 x 40 cm., Tate
Roderic O'Conor | Study / Femme à Contre jour, 1907, oil on board, 62.2 x 50.8 cm.
Roderic O'Conor | Alden Brooks, 1916, oil on canvas, 92 x 73.5 cm, Ulster Museum
Roderic O'Conor | Jeune paysanne Bretonne, oil on canvas, 79.2 x 63.7 cm, Museums Sheffield
Roderic O'Conor | La Jeune Bretonne, 1895, oil on canvas, 65 x 50 cm., National Gallery of Ireland
Roderic O'Conor (17 October 1860 – 18 March 1940) was an Irish painter who spent much of his later career in Paris and as part of the Pont-Aven movement.
Self-portrait, Reading on a Blanket on the Grass
#ArtistBirthday #SelfPortrait
Frank Cadogan Cowper | The Patient Griselda
Pencil and watercolour heightened with bodycolour on artist's board
Frank Cadogan Cowper | Venetian Ladies Listening to the Serenade
88.9 x 128.9 cms | 35 x 50 1/2 ins
Frank Cadogan Cowper | Fair Rosamund and Eleanor
Oil on canvas
101.6 x 127 cms | 40 x 50 ins
Frank Cadogan Cowper | Vanity
Oil on panel
54 x 37 cms | 21 1/4 x 14 1/2 ins
Royal Academy of Arts
London
Frank Cadogan Cowper RA (16 October 1877 – 17 November 1958) was an English artist described as "The last of the Pre-Raphaelites."
Self-Portrait of the Artist in his Eightieth Year, 1957, Oil on canvas, 78.5 x 68cm (30¾ x 26¾ in.)
#EnglishArtist #BornOnTHisDay #SelfPortrait #OilOnCanvas
James Tissot | Portrait of two sisters, 1863, oil on canvas, 136 x210 cm, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France
James Tissot | Holyday, c. 1876
Oil on canvas
Tate Britain

This painting is set in the artist’s garden in the wealthy north London suburb of St John’s Wood.