#Agnes Tait

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Agnes Tait - The Old Friend (1954)

#women painters #agnes tait #american art #cat lady #1950s

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Agnes Tait, Skating in Central Park, 1934. Oil on canvas.

Agnes Tait had long wanted to make a large, festive painting of winter revelers in Central Park, but without a patron she could not take on this project. When the Public Works of Art Project gave her support in the winter of 1933-1934, the artist had her opportunity. As skaters and sledders flocked to the frozen lake and snowy slopes of Central Park, Tait joined them to sketch the winter fun. Then she retreated to her studio to make her painting.

Tait showed the park in late afternoon as the Manhattan sky began to blush and the street lamps to glow, but skating and sledding were still in full swing. Once she had the landscape painted, Tait added figures in groups to create a colorful pattern against the snow and ice. The dark branches of the bare trees make a more subtle design against the white snow and mist and the golden sky. Around the ends of tree branches and in patches along the snowbanks, Tait painted areas of gray into which she drew snow-covered twigs and grasses by scraping away the gray paint with the end of her paintbrush.

Photo & text: Smithsonian American Art Museum

#vintage New York #1930s #Agnes Tait #painting #Central Park #Wollman Rink #winter #ice skating #New York art

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Agnes Tait (American, 1894-1981)

The Learning Tree, 1940s

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Agnes Tait

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Bacchanalian Scene, by Agnes Tait

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Bacchanalian Scene, date unknown.

Agnes Tait, (New York City, 1894 - 1981)  

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The Aristocrat - Agnes Tait, 1936.

American, 1894-1981

Lithograph on white wove paper, 9 7/8 x 13 1/2 in.

#Agnes Tait #american artist #animal painting #cat #siamese cat #interior

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Agnes Tait, Skating in Central Park, 1934

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Agnes Tait - Bacchanalian Scene

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Agnes Tait

Swans and Trumpet Flowers

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Agnes Tait (1894 - 1981) - Siamese Cats and Snake. Oil on board.

#Agnes Tait #American #Cats #Siamese Cats #Snake

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Agnes Tait : Felicity (1936), The sailor’s cats, The Aristocat (1936)

#agnes tait #cats #siamese cat #b&w #drawning

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cena bacaniano

#Agnes Tait

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Skating in Central Park (1934). Agnes Tait.

#agnes tait #art #american art #1930s #female artists #seen in person #smithsonian

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Agnes Tait, Skating in Central Park 1934

Iceskating on Canals Amsterdam!

#amsterdam #art #agnes tait

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Agnes Tait, Skating in Central Park, 1934, Oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum