Tag: Rainy

Childe Hassam (1859–1935): Rainy Midnight, late 1890s, oil on canvas, 54 x 46.4 cm (21 1/4 x 18 1/4 in.), The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston In the late 1890s, Hassam painted a rainy night in New York in shades of blue, purple, white, black with small hints of red in some of the lights and th...

Pierre-Auguste Renoir spent five years between 1881 and 1886 on his painting, The Umbrellas, yet it seems to capture a moment suspended in time. Rain is starting to fall and the bustling pedestrians pause to put up their umbrellas. The people are so close the shapes of the open umbrellas a...

It felt like passing by a friend at a party, pausing only long enough to say you’d circle back soon. I’d taken a taken a cheap flight from Washington, D.C., to see the “Remedios Varo: Science Fictions” show at the Art Institute of Chicago. The show included many paintings ...

It felt like passing by a friend at a party, pausing only long enough to say you’d circle back soon. I’d taken a taken a cheap flight from Washington, D.C., to see the “Remedios Varo: Science Fictions” show at the Art Institute of Chicago. The show included many paintings ...

It can be quite a dilemma to decide what to wear during the rainy season when the air conditioning makes it difficult to determine whether it’s hot or cold. Wearing just a T-shirt can leave you feeling cold in air-conditioned areas, but wearing a long-sleeved shirt can make you feel hot. It...