A Morning's Internet Browsing

Homemade Coffee Frappe

Thinking of summer this morning, I browse American artists listed on Wikiart.org. I was looking for a nice bright sunny beach  painting for a mid winter pick me up. I see a line up of walrus mustached old men, and very few women artists. 

Reading the artist's names, one that sticks out, Cadurcis Plantagenet Ream, 1838~1917, American still life painter of mainly fruit. All right, painting still life fruit is art. But, what was going through his mind to paint a bunch of raspberries on a cabbage leaf?

Raspberries on a Cabbage Leaf
C.P.Ream

On the theme of interesting names, I find an American female multiracial sculptor, Edmonia Lewis, 1844~1907. Her first name has a beautiful musical vibe.

The marble sculpture in the photo posted below is part of a series she did from H.W.Longfellow's poem, "The Song of Hiawatha," 1855. The young woman at the feet of the arrow maker is Minnehaha. There is also a Lewis' marble bust of Minnehaha.

The Old Arrow Maker
Marble 1872

Finding new to me American artists is a better use 

of my time than playing computer games online.

I also look at an American impressionist, Lilla Cabot Perry. Her name, to me, screams Boston. And Boston is where she was born in 1848. She died in 1933 at Hancock, New Hampshire 91 years ago yesterday. 

Does she have a summer beach painting? No, but the painting in the photo below, has soothing summer sunlight that is just as good. The scene reminds me of a place near Walden Pond, Lincoln, Massachusetts where we had picnics when I was a kid.

The Violoncellist
1907 by Lilla Cabot Perry

What do you like to browse online instead 

of playing computer games?