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Hayashi Fumiko was a prominent Japanese writer known for her poignant and introspective novels and short stories, often focusing on the struggles and experiences of women in early 20th-century Japan. Born in 1903 in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Fumiko faced hardships from a young age, including poverty and the early death of her parents. Despite these challenges, she pursued her passion for writing and published her first novel, "Horoki" (Diary of a Vagabond), in 1930, which brought her literary acclaim. Throughout her career, Fumiko wrote extensively about the lives of women, addressing themes such as love, loss, and societal expectations with empathy and nuance.

The Hayashi Fumiko Memorial Hall, located in Tokyo, is dedicated to preserving the legacy of this influential author. The memorial hall showcases exhibits about Fumiko's life and works, including personal belongings, manuscripts, and photographs. Visitors can learn about the author's life story, her literary achievements, and the historical context in which she lived and wrote. The memorial hall also hosts events, lectures, and readings to promote awareness and appreciation of Fumiko's contributions to Japanese literature. It serves as a cultural landmark honoring Fumiko's enduring impact on literature and her portrayal of the human condition with depth and sensitivity.

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We all look small next to the ocean.

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hula halau o kekuhi: an introspective of the past few decades' worth of competitive hula costume. white background shot with a 40" umbrella strobe set at 1/4 +.7 and a ceiling bounced strobe set at 1/2. white background that was color balanced and layer masked to 100% white, these images were shot 1/3 stop underexposed and pushed forward in post. a rare opportunity to document an amazing collection of competitive hula costuming!

Hayashi Fumiko's office, Tokyo by Mark Tindale

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Hayashi Fumiko was a prominent Japanese writer known for her poignant and introspective novels and short stories, often focusing on the struggles and experiences of women in early 20th-century Japan. Born in 1903 in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Fumiko faced hardships from a young age, including poverty and the early death of her parents. Despite these challenges, she pursued her passion for writing and published her first novel, "Horoki" (Diary of a Vagabond), in 1930, which brought her literary acclaim. Throughout her career, Fumiko wrote extensively about the lives of women, addressing themes such as love, loss, and societal expectations with empathy and nuance.

The Hayashi Fumiko Memorial Hall, located in Tokyo, is dedicated to preserving the legacy of this influential author. The memorial hall showcases exhibits about Fumiko's life and works, including personal belongings, manuscripts, and photographs. Visitors can learn about the author's life story, her literary achievements, and the historical context in which she lived and wrote. The memorial hall also hosts events, lectures, and readings to promote awareness and appreciation of Fumiko's contributions to Japanese literature. It serves as a cultural landmark honoring Fumiko's enduring impact on literature and her portrayal of the human condition with depth and sensitivity.

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She had not yet decided whether to use her power for good or evil....

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You say I'm introspective? Give me some time to think about that.

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My little boy Talisman, posing with an introspective face.

If I think, soon I feel. by Gabriel Lira Nascimento

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Carparks. An Introspective Study. by PerpetualBunny

The Carpark is a commonly elusive creature, coming out at night only to feed on the blood of the young.

New Britain, Connecticut, Museum of American Art - May 8, 2025 by JR P

The Fisher Boy - 1908

Charles Webster Hawthorne (American, 1872 - 1930)

Hawthorne's favorite and most characteristic subject was the hardworking fisherfolk of Cape Cod, whom he began painting about 1899. His works are monumental images of human toil and of man's struggle against nature, yet they are also portraits of individuals surrounded by the tools of their trade. Encased in Hawthorne's thick glazes and dark, Old Master tonalities, these humble fishermen possess poise and dignity.

Provincetown cod fishermen typically spent the summer months off Newfoundland's Grand Banks, storing the daily catch in salt and returning home in September when the salt ran out. (1) “Fisher Boy” is one of a number of single-figure portraits of these local fishermen, many of which capture events or introspective moments surrounding the fall return of the fishing boats. Against a foggy background, through which the sails and masts of a fishing vessel are visible, a teenage boy surveys his home after months at sea. Slung over his left shoulder is a bag; under his right arm is a beautiful blue-glass jug, which may have held water-—or wine--during the journey. (2)

Hardworking immigrants were a favorite subject of a number of realists painters, such as Robert Henri, Jerome Myers, Hawthorne, and others, who disdained the upper-class genteel subject matter preferred by the conservative art world. Contemporary critic Charles H. Caffin appreciated such pictures as a "natural and wholesome reaction from the vogue of frippery, tameness, and sentimentality" that characterized many of the visual images of the era, which kept art far removed from actual experience. (3) For other reviewers, Arthur Hoeber among them, Hawthorne's images conveyed the immigrant’s attempt to build a new life in a new country through back-breaking work. More than simply picturesque characters, Hawthorne’s Portuguese fisherfolk were depicted as "real, tangible human beings, full of hope, ambition and the struggle for existence."

Charles Webster Hawthorne grew up in the fishing village of Richmond, Maine, where his father was a sea captain. About 1890 he went to New York, where he attended night classes at the National Academy of Design and at the Art Students League, studying with conservative academic painters Frank Vincent DuMond, George de Forest Brush, and Harry Siddons Mowbray; during the day he worked at a stained-glass factory. Hawthorne began attending summer classes at William Merritt Chase's Shinnecock, Long Island, art school in 1896, and the next year became Chase's assistant. In 1898 he traveled with the class to Holland, where he was exposed to Frans Hals's brushwork and picturesque scenes of fisherfolk. In 1899, after Chase's school closed, Hawthorne moved to Provincetown, Massachusetts, and opened the Cape Cod School of Art, which flourished under his direction until his death thirty years later. A highly esteemed teacher, he gave weekly critiques and instructive talks but never dictated his own methods.

Hawthorne's earliest still lifes of fish with pots and pans betray Chase's influence in their dark tonalities and bravura brushstrokes. After moving to Provincetown, Hawthorne began focusing on portraits of the hardworking fishermen of the village. In an era when facile brushwork, picturesque views, and genteel Impressionist subjects dominated but were quickly becoming outmoded, Hawthorne's early works were often praised for their ruggedness, realism, psychological insight, and American subject matter.

In 1906-7 Hawthorne traveled to Italy with his new wife, artist Ethel Campbell. He studied the Old Masters and developed new painting techniques, such as the use of oil glazes over tempera, which produced his marvelous color-saturated, glistening surfaces. Although he had begun exhibiting frequently after 1902, his success increased after he returned to Provincetown from Italy. He began showing at New York City’s influential Macbeth Gallery, and in 1908 was elected an associate at the National Academy of Design. In the early teens he exhibited at the Paris Salon and with the Society of American Artists in New York.

Hawthorne’s reputation was based on his portrayals of Provincetown fishermen and their families and of members of Provincetown society as well as on his generic, sentimental images of "American madonnas." Toward the end of his career he also painted watercolor views of Provincetown landscapes.

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"Acknowledged as the first museum in the world dedicated solely to collecting American art, the NBMAA is renowned for its preeminent collection spanning three centuries of American history. The award-winning Chase Family Building, which opened in 2006 to critical and public acclaim, features 15 spacious galleries which showcase the permanent collection and upwards of 25 special exhibitions a year featuring American masters, emerging artists and private collections. Education and community outreach programs for all ages include docent-led school and adult tours, teacher services, studio classes and vacation programs, Art Happy Hour gallery talks, lectures, symposia, concerts, film, monthly First Friday jazz evenings, quarterly Museum After Dark parties for young professionals, and the annual Juneteenth celebration. Enjoy Café on the Park for a light lunch prepared by “Best Caterer in Connecticut” Jordan Caterers. Visit the Museum Shop for unique gifts. Drop by the “ArtLab” learning gallery with your little ones. Gems not to be missed include Thomas Hart Benton’s murals “The Arts of Life in America,” “The Cycle of Terror and Tragedy, September 11, 2001” by Graydon Parrish,” and Dale Chihuly’s “Blue and Beyond Blue” spectacular chandelier. Called “a destination for art lovers everywhere,” “first-class,” “a full-size, transparent temple of art, mixing New York ambience with Yankee ingenuity and all-American beauty,” the NBMAA is not to be missed."

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The NBMAA collection represents the major artists and movements of American art. Today it numbers about 8,274 paintings, works on paper, sculptures, and photographs, including the Sanford B.D. Low Illustration Collection, which features important works by illustrators such as Norman Rockwell, Howard Pyle, and Maxfield Parrish.

Among collection highlights are colonial and federal portraits, with examples by John Smibert, John Trumbull, John Singleton Copley, Gilbert Stuart, and the Peale family. The Hudson River School features landscapes by Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, Martin Johnson Heade, John Kensett, Albert Bierstadt, and Frederic Church. Still life painters range from Raphaelle Peale, Severin Roesen, William Harnett, John Peto, John Haberle, and John La Farge. American genre painting is represented by John Quidor, William Sidney Mount, and Lilly Martin Spencer. Post-Civil War examples include works by Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent, George de Forest Brush, and William Paxton, and 19 plasters and bronzes by Solon Borglum. American Impressionists include Mary Cassatt, Theodore Robinson, John Henry Twachtman, J. Alden Weir, Willard Metcalf, and Childe Hassam, the last represented by eleven oils. Later Impressionist paintings include those by Ernest Lawson, Frederck Frieseke, Louis Ritman, Robert Miller, and Maurice Prendergast.

Other strengths of the twentieth-century collection include: sixty works by members of the Ash Can School; significant representation by early modernists such as Alfred Maurer, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Max Weber; important examples by the Precisionists Charles Demuth, Charles Sheeler, Preston Dickinson, and Ralston Crawford; a broad spectrum of work by the Social Realists Ben Shahn, Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, and Jack Levine; and ambitious examples of Regionalist painting by Grant Wood, John Steuart Curry, and Thomas Hart Benton, notably the latter’s celebrated five-panel mural, The Arts of Life in America (1932).

Works by the American Abstract Artist group (Stuart Davis, Ilya Bolotowsky, Esphyr Slobodkina, Balcomb Greene, and Milton Avery) give twentieth-century abstraction its place in the collection, as do later examples of Surrealism by artists Kay Sage and George Tooker; Abstract Expressionism (Lee Krasner, Giorgio Cavallon, Morris Graves, Robert Motherwell, Sam Francis, Cleve Gray), Pop and Op art (Andy Warhol, Larry Rivers, Robert Indiana, Tom Wesselman, Jim Dine), Conceptual (Christo, Sol LeWitt), and Photo-Realism (Robert Cottingham). Examples of twentieth-century sculpture include Harriet Frishmuth, Paul Manship, Isamu Noguchi, George Segal, and Stephen DeStaebler. We continue to acquire contemporary works by notable artists, in order to best represent the dynamic and evolving narrative of American art.

Carla shares an introspective moment with a student by The Center for Photography at Woodstock