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End of Season 3

A Long Look show art for welcome message

We’ve reached the end of Season 3! Thanks to all you returning listeners and welcome to our new audience members. If you’ve been enjoying the show, you can show your appreciation by subscribing and sharing! You can also help by leaving a comment or rating in Apple Podcasts or in your podcast app. That helps more people discover the show!

“A Long Look” will be back in October to give me time to plan and prep for Season 4.

Until then, there’s plenty happening at the Gallery. They’re staying open until 8 p.m. through August 18 when “The Life of Animals in Japanese Art” closes. Works by Oliver Lee Jackson are up til Sept. 15. And “By the Light of the Silvery Moon: A Century of Lunar Photographs” is up through January 5. Check www.nga.gov for details.

In the meantime, you can catch up on any episodes you missed. You can find them in the archives here and on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn or your favorite podcast app.

And you can follow me on Instagram @alonglookslowart and check back here for updates. Thanks for listening!

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SHOW NOTES

“A Long Look” theme is “Ascension” by Ron Gelinas youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo

Wivenhoe Park, Essex by John Constable

Painting of an English landscape on a summer day
John Constable (British, 1776 – 1837), Wivenhoe Park, Essex, 1816, oil on canvas, Widener Collection 1942.9.10

John Constable painted this bucolic landscape for Major General Francis Slater–Rebow but it’s not what it appears to be! We’ll talk about the headaches caused by an overeager client and what one of those cows is hiding.  We’ll also see how Constable used a technique to conjure up distant figures, just like Camille Pissarro did decades later.

And we’ll find out how Constable’s cheapness and cold feet nearly cost him the love of his life!

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SHOW NOTES (TRANSCRIPT)

“A Long Look” theme is “Ascension” by Ron Gelinas

Episode theme is “Piano Sonata no. 11, K. 331 – I. Andante grazioso” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Courtesy of musopen.org.

Wivenhoe Park, Essex info
https://www.nga.gov/collection/highlights/constable-wivenhoe-park-essex.html

https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.1147.html

https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.1147.html#relatedpages

British Paintings of the Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries (PDF)

Constable info
John Constable (Masters of Art Series) by John Walker (Amazon)

Slow Art Day

08 Skiffs – Caillebotte

Painting of men boating on a river on a summer day by Gustave Caillebotte
Gustave Caillebotte (French, 1848 – 1894), Skiffs, 1877, oil on canvas, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon 1985.64.6

This sunny, warm painting is a welcome relief in this miserable March. Skiffs is one in a series of young men boating by Gustave Caillebotte who was a lesser known Impressionist painter until a beautiful 2015 exhibition at the National Gallery.

We’ll find out about his relationship with his fellow Impressionists, his killer art collection and how he turns up in one of Renoir’s most famous paintings.

Painting of a lively group of young people having lunch in an outdoor space
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Luncheon of the Boating Party, 1881. Oil on canvas, 51 1/4×69 1/8 in. The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, Acquired 1923

I’d like to thank the staff at the Phillips Collection for their help with this episode.

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SHOW NOTES

“A Long Look” theme is “Ascension” by Ron Gelinas
youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo

Episode theme is “Scenes from Childhood, Op. 15 – V. Happiness by Robert Schumann performed by Donald Betts. https://musopen.org/music/2326-scenes-from-childhood-op-15/

Skiffs information
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.66404.html

Introduction to the Exhibition—Gustave Caillebotte: The Painter’s Eye

Gustave Caillebotte: The Painter’s Eye, Exhibition Catalog
https://shop.nga.gov/item/645727p/gustave-caillebotte-the-painter-s-eye-exhibition-catalog/1.html

Renoir and Friends: Luncheon of the Boating Party
https://www.amazon.com/Renoir-Friends-Luncheon-Boating-Party/dp/191128200X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1520629125&sr=8-1&keywords=renoir+and+friends+phillips

Slow Art Day
http://www.slowartday.com