Tag: women artists

• Beautiful

  O world, as God has made it! All is beauty: And knowing this, is love, and love is duty. What further may be sought for or declared?

  Adrienne Morris

  March 11, 2017

  Art, Poetry, Uncategorized

  Guardian Angel, James Lee, Robert Browning, women artists

• Flannery O’Connor: “Oh God please make my mind clear. Please make it clean . . . Please help me get down under things and find where You are.”

  Ready for the Oven by Jennie Augusta Brownescombe (courtesy 19th Century Women) ***Quote from Timothy Keller’s book: Prayer

  Adrienne Morris

  May 1, 2016

  Art, Quotes, Uncategorized

  American, faith, flannery o’connor, pennsylvania artists, pies, prayers, women artists

• 19th century ‘Vegetable Garden in Shantytown, New York’

  Adrienne Morris

  August 21, 2014

  19th Century Art, Beautiful Images, inspirational, United States History

  19th century New York, Art, city gardens, community gardening, Irish New York, Life, mary Nimmo Moran, NYC, organic gardening, urban development, vegetable gardening, women artists

• Can You Write Stories for These Pictures?

  Under the Lilacs book illustration. I’d never heard the term domestic genre stories but I LOVE it. These are the great stories of the late 19th century that spoke to the trials and travails of ordinary life and often with beautiful illustrations. I assume they’re the works that some people deem “of no literary merit”…

  Adrienne Morris

  June 16, 2014

  19th Century Art, Beautiful Images, History, The Unknowable Past, inspirational, The House on Tenafly Road, Uncategorized, Women, Writing

  19th century, Adrienne Morris, Art, Books, Illustration, The House on Tenafly Road, women artists, Writing

• “Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.” John Wesley

  Random Wesley quotes that inspired many in the 19th century and beyond: “It cannot be that the people should grow in grace unless they give themselves to reading. A reading people will always be a knowing people. ” “Vice does not lose its character by becoming fashionable.” “Though we cannot think alike, may we not…

  Adrienne Morris

  June 15, 2014

  19th Century Art, Beautiful Images, inspirational, Men, Quotes, Women, Writing

  19th century, Alice Barber Stephens, American art, Art, Christianity’s influence on 19th century, Culture, John Wesley, Painting, religion, women artists

• The Woman Responsible for Exposing Impressionism to the American Art World: Lilla Cabot Perry

  Coming from the Cabot family of Boston had its perks for young Lilla–how would you like to hang out with Emerson and the Alcotts? But Lilla was pretty perky on her own–and talented. I don’t know how people find the energy to push art movements along, but she did. I’m  sure now that I’m sending…

  Adrienne Morris

  May 2, 2014

  19th Century Art, Beautiful Images, History, The Unknowable Past, inspirational, The Tenafly Road Series, Uncategorized, Women, Writing

  19th century America, 19th Century Women, Art, artists, Culture, Fashion, Impressionism, Life Inspiration, Lilla Cabot Perry, Painting, women, women artists, Writers, Writing