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One of my favorite shirts, the button fell off. I don't have much patience, so I have not got to wear it since. I decided to fix it today and tried to use a needle and thread for the first time today. I don't think it looks too bad myself.
Buttoned Down Disco's dancefloor rocked with Christian Laing's blend of indie electro poppin' mayhem in the main room, while Killer Kitsch hosted The Gallery Bar with leftfield electro. It's invite only entry, so make sure you request invites for the next party at: www.buttoneddowndisco.com
Buttoned Down Disco's dancefloor rocked with Christian Laing's blend of indie electro poppin' mayhem in the main room, while Killer Kitsch hosted The Gallery Bar with leftfield electro. It's invite only entry, so make sure you request invites for the next party at: www.buttoneddowndisco.com
Buttoned Down Disco's dancefloor rocked with Christian Laing's blend of indie electro poppin' mayhem in the main room, while Killer Kitsch hosted The Gallery Bar with leftfield electro. It's invite only entry, so make sure you request invites for the next party at: www.buttoneddowndisco.com
This is an old watchmaker's cabinet. I use it to store vintage buttons and a few buckles. It has loads of compartments so I can sort by colour.
Jenson Button in the McLaren - Mercedes MP4-26 turns into the Roggia chicane at Monza during second practice for the 2011 Italian Grand Prix.
Button magnet made from clear resin, with buttons embedded in the resin.
Available in square, round, heart or pyramid shape.
Available in a range of colours
Irked Tofu came wrapped in blue tissue paper, in a blue pouch with a free pin badge and a little Button Arcade sticker!
This is the down button. Sadly, it doesn't get to go anywhere and gets poked a lot. Taken at Ai Dunsmuir on 06.07.06
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The Red School House - 1873
Winslow Homer
American, 1836 - 1910
Shown nearly full-length, a young schoolteacher fills the foreground of The Red Schoolhouse. Standing on a wide dirt path or road, she gazes off to her right with a solemn expression, holding two books in her left hand and the striped fabric of her flounced skirt in her right. Around her neck the teacher wears a lacy triangular shawl known as a fichu that appears to be fastened with a square gold brooch or button. Her black and white ruffled bonnet is similarly elegant. Though only roughly sketched, the building behind the central figure is recognizable as a small red schoolhouse toward which a trio of schoolgirls appear to be headed. The surrounding landscape, lush and green, is silhouetted against a wide expanse of sky that glows with the warm, bright colors of early morning.
The Red School House is related to a series of school subjects that Winslow Homer painted from 1871 to 1874. Though he varied the composition and narrative emphasis across the series, three elements remain consistent: a small red schoolhouse, its young female teacher, and a luminous mountain setting. Homer’s attention to this theme reflected a popular wave of nostalgia in late 19th-century America for small country schools and the simpler lifestyle they recalled. Part of a larger body of paintings of children completed in the 1870s, Homer’s school subjects, including The Red School House, simultaneously express the country’s sense of optimism for future generations in the wake of the Civil War.
More information on this painting can be found in the Gallery publication American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I, pages 305-309, which is available as a free PDF at www.nga.gov/content/dam/ngaweb/research/publications/pdfs...
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For earlier visit in 2024 see:
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The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC is a world-class art museum that displays one of the largest collections of masterpieces in the world including paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, and decorative arts from the 13th century to the present. The National Gallery of Art collection includes an extensive survey of works of American, British, Italian, Flemish, Spanish, Dutch, French and German art. With its prime location on the National Mall, surrounded by the Smithsonian Institution, visitors often think that the museum is a part of the Smithsonian. It is a separate entity and is supported by a combination of private and public funds. Admission is free. The museum offers a wide range of educational programs, lectures, guided tours, films, and concerts.
The original neoclassical building, the West Building includes European (13th-early 20th century) and American (18th-early 20th century) paintings, sculptures, decorative arts, and temporary exhibitions. The National Gallery of Art was opened to the public in 1941 with funds provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The original collection of masterpieces was provided by Mellon, who was the U. S. Secretary of the Treasury and ambassador to Britain in the 1930s. Mellon collected European masterpieces and many of the Gallery’s original works were once owned by Catherine II of Russia and purchased in the early 1930s by Mellon from the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad.
The core collection includes major works of art donated by Paul Mellon, Ailsa Mellon Bruce, Lessing J. Rosenwald, Samuel Henry Kress, Rush Harrison Kress, Peter Arrell Browne Widener, Joseph E. Widener, and Chester Dale. The Gallery's collection of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, medals, and decorative arts traces the development of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present, including the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas and the largest mobile created by Alexander Calder.
The NGA's collection galleries and Sculpture Garden display European and American paintings, sculpture, works on paper, photographs, and decorative arts. Paintings in the permanent collection date from the Middle Ages to the present. The Italian Renaissance collection includes two panels from Duccio's Maesta, the tondo of the Adoration of the Magi by Fra Angelico and Filippo Lippi, a Botticelli work on the same subject, Giorgione's Allendale Nativity, Giovanni Bellini's The Feast of the Gods, Ginevra de' Benci (the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas) and groups of works by Titian and Raphael.
The collections include paintings by many European masters, including a version of Saint Martin and the Beggar, by El Greco, and works by Matthias Grünewald, Cranach the Elder, Rogier van der Weyden, Albrecht Dürer, Frans Hals, Rembrandt, Johannes Vermeer, Francisco Goya, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, and Eugène Delacroix, among others. The collection of sculpture and decorative arts includes such works as the Chalice of Abbot Suger of St-Denis and a collection of work by Auguste Rodin and Edgar Degas. Other highlights of the permanent collection include the second of the two original sets of Thomas Cole's series of paintings titled The Voyage of Life, (the first set is at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, New York) and the original version of Watson and the Shark by John Singleton Copley (two other versions are in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Detroit Institute of Arts).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Gallery_of_Art
Andrew W. Mellon, who pledged both the resources to construct the National Gallery of Art as well as his high-quality art collection, is rightly known as the founder of the gallery. But his bequest numbered less than two hundred paintings and sculptures—not nearly enough to fill the gallery’s massive rooms. This, however, was a feature, not a failure of Mellon’s vision; he anticipated that the gallery eventually would be filled not only by his own collection, but also by additional donations from other private collectors. By design, then, it was both Andrew Mellon and those who followed his lead—among them, eight men and women known as the Founding Benefactors—to whom the gallery owes its premier reputation as a national art museum. At the gallery’s opening in 1941, President Roosevelt stated, “the dedication of this Gallery to a living past, and to a greater and more richly living future, is the measure of the earnestness of our intention that the freedom of the human spirit shall go on.”
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This one isn't a State Marker, even though it looks like it's trying to be one.
I thought the content was worthy.
And my Friend in Pennslyvania said old fire trucks are Cool.
Whoa! Did I luck out again! Swap-bot's been very good to me and so has Ceske from New Zealand. I got these wonderful buttons inside an envelope with Heidi stickers all over it inside an envelope that was once a map. Just an awesome package!! Thanks Ceske! Willy stole the button with the boy and his dog. Most of the others will go on my jean jacket (Goodwill, no less) and a few may go in my first grade birthday bucket for the tots.
Buttoned Down Disco's dancefloor rocked with Christian Laing's blend of indie electro poppin' mayhem in the main room, while A Mixtape Affair hosted the JD lounge with leftfield electro. It's invite only entry, so make sure you request invites for the next party at: www.buttoneddowndisco.com