Postcards - Fine Art

Carlos Schwabe (1866 - 1929). The Grave Digger's Death, 1895 - 1900. Watercolor and gouache, 29½ in. & 21¾.
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Postmarked:Canada; September 2024


The Cathedral of Our Lady of Kazan
Vasiy Sadovnikov
1847
The State Hermitage Museum
Postcrossing: Russia; 37 days; 5,305 miles
Postmarked: October - November 2025


« Reverie » colored lithograph / 1897 / 38 x 47 cm
Alphonse Maria Mucha (1860 - 1939)
Postmarked: Columbus, Ohio; October 2025


« Salammbo » decorative panel lithograph supplemented with water colors / 1897 / 38 x 22 cm
Alphonse Maria Mucha (1860 - 1939)
Postmarked: Blythe, California; September 2025


« Laurel » colored lithograph / 1901 / 62.5 x 45 cm
Alphonese Maria Mucha (1860 - 1939)
Postmarked: Clyde; New York; October 2025


from a fresco from Runkelstein Castle, Italy
Postcrossing Unofficial: Italy
Postmarked: November 2025


Līva Pakalne Fanelli, Saldā nekā nedarīšana (Doing Nothing Is Sweet), 2020
Postcrossing: Latvia; 28 days; 4,422 miles
Postmarked: August - September 2025


MARC CHAGALL, 1887 - 1985
Bouquet de renoncules, 1969 - 71
(Vase with summer flowers)
Öl auf Leinwand, 100 x 73 cm
Postcrossing: France; 41 days; 3,745 miles
Postmarked: February - April 2025


Pat Andrea, Pompeii IV, 2009
Postcrossing: Netherlands; 23 days; 3,897 miles
Postmarked: March - April 2025


CASPAR DAVID FRIEDRICH (1774 - 1840), On A Sailing Ship, 1818 - 1820, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Postcrossing: Germany; 24 days; 4,002 miles
Postmarked: February - March 2025


Alfred Sisley. b. Paris, 1839; d. Moret-sur-Loing, 1899.
Snow at Louveciennes. 1878. Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris
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Postmarked: Westmont, Illinois; February 2025


Statue of Tirumala Nayaka
Postcrossing: India; 26 days; 8,051 miles
Postmarked: February 2025


Andrea Meldolla zw. Shiavone, Madonna z dzieciątkiem i święci, ok. 1540
Postcrossing: Poland; 26 days; 4,465 miles
Postmarked: January - February 2025


Pacita Abad
L.A. Liberty, 1992
Acrylic, cotton yarn, plastic buttons, mirrors, gold thread, painted cloth on stitched and padded canvas
Collection Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Postcrossing: Canada; 16 days; 360 miles
Postmarked: January - February 2025


Childe Hassam (American, 1859 - 1935)
Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, c. 1892
Oil on canvas, 56.5 x 76.8 cm
Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago
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Postmarked: Raleigh, North Carolina; December 2024


Zhu Da
Postcrossing: China; 33 days; 7,439 miles
Postmarked: October - November 2024


Johann Baptist Homann (German, 1663 - 1724)
Atlas Novus, c. 1728. Title page
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Postmarked: Houston, Texas; October 2024


Musée Archéologique d'Arlon
Edicule of a funerary pillar from the 12th century
Postcrossing: Belgium; 22 days; 3,958 miles
Postmarked: August - September 2024


HIERONYMUS BOSCH (1450 - 1516)
detail of Adoration of the Magi (1485 - 1500)
Postcrossing:Germany; 22 days; 4,175 miles
Postmarked: August - September 2024


The Pont de Grenelle and the Eiffel Tower, ca. 1912
Pierre Bonnard (French, 1867 - 1947)
Oil on canvas, unframed, 21.5 x 27 inches
Virginia Musuem of Fine Arts, Richmond
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Postmarked: Richmond, Virginia; August 2024


Postcard reads: chromolithographic pattern from La plante et ses applications ornementales (1896) by Maurice Pillar Verneuil (1869 - 1942)
However, according to the Smithsonian Institution, La plante... was written by Eugéne Grasset. You can find the book here, and this postcard is featured on page 37.
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Postmarked:Oakland, California; October 2024


by David Borawski
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Postmarked: Columbus, Ohio; September 2024


Uta of Naumburg
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Postmarked: August 2024


Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954)
Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair, 1940
Postmarked: December


EL PASO MUSEUM OF ART
El Paso, Texas

"SIGN OF FRIENDSHIP"
by FREDERICK REMINGTON (1861 - 1909)
oil on canvas
From my grandmother: March 1994


Three Folk Musicians, 1967
Romare Bearden (American, 1911 - 1988)
Collage of various papers with paint and graphite on canvas, 50 x 60 x 1½ in
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
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Postmarked: Richmond, Virginia; August 2024


Robert Doisneau, Le Basier de l'Hotel de Ville (The Kiss by the Hotel de Ville), 1950
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Postmarked: Louisville, Kentucky; July 2024


Helen Allingham, A Garden in October, 1891
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Postmarked: Suburban, Illinois; August 2024


EUGENE DELAXCROIX
Tiger und Schlange/Tiger and Serpent, 1854/1858
Postcrossing: Germany; 10 days; 3,955 miles
Postmarked: October 2022


I. K. Aivazovsky (1817 - 1900)
View of the Leander Tower in Constantinople. 1848
Postcrossing: Russia; 23 days; 4,866 miles
Postmarked: October 2022


Giorgio de Chirico. Italian, born Greece, 1888 - 1978.
Euripides. 1921. Pencil on paper. 12½ & 8½". The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Postcrossing: United States; 8 days; 2,325 miles
Postmarked: January 2021


Sandro Botticelli, detail of The Birth of Venus, 1485 - 1486
Postcrossing: Finland; 28 days; 4,312 days
Postmarked: January - February 2021


Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night, 1889
Postcrossing: Belgium; 23 days; 3,869 miles
Postmarked: August - September 2025


Landscape With Green Corn
1889 by Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 90)
Postmarked: Cleveland, Ohio; March 2025


Vincent van Gogh, The Red Vineyard, 1888, 75 x 93 cm, Pushkin Museum, Moscow
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Postmarked: Dallas, Texas; September 2024


Vincent van Gogh, Vase of Roses, 1890, oil on canvas, 36⅝ x 29⅛ in, the Metropolitan Museum of Art


Vincent van Gogh, Sunflowers, 1889, 95 x 73 cm, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
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Postmarked: Tampa, Florida; December 2023


Vincent van Gogh, Le Moulin de la Galette, 1886, Kroller-Muller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands
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Postmarked: Santa Ana, California; May 2019


Irises
Vincent van Gogh, Dutch, 1853 - 1890
oil on canvas, 29 x 36.25 in, 1890
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Postmarked: September 2022


Vincent van Gogh, Vincent's Chair With Pipe, 1888
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Postmarked: USA; 2022


Henri Matisse, Portrait of L.N. Delekorskaya, 1947, 64 x 49 cm, Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia
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Postmarked: Tampa, Florida; January 2024


Claude Monet, Hôtel des Roches Noires, 1870, Musée d'Orsay, Paris
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Postmarked: Portland, Oregon; February 2024


Claude Monet (French, 1840 - 1926)
The Church at Varengeville, Morning Effect, 1882
Oil on canvas, 61.3 x 74 cm
Private collection
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Postmarked: Harrisburg, Pennsyvlania; November 2024


Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Woman in a Hat, 1895
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Postmarked: November 2023


Auguste Renoir, Monet Painting in His Argenteuil Garden, 1873, oil on canvas, 46 x 60 cm, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
Postcrossing: United States; 10 days; 399 miles
Postmarked: July - August 2020


Whistle in bird or fool shape, 16th century
location: Erkelenz-Borschemich
Postcrossing: Germany; 10 days; 3,940 miles
Postmarked: May 2019


Statuette de Lare, Bronze (1er siecle)
Strasbourg, Musée archeologique
Postcrossing: France; 16 days; 4,011 miles
Postmarked: October 2021


WIEN, KUNSTHISTORISCHES MUSEUM
PETER BRUEGEL
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Postmarked: Houston, Texas; May 2019


NY CARLSBERG GLYPTOTEK
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Postmarked: Copenhagen, Denmark; 2019


LE MUSEE D'ORSAY
La grande horloge et deux sculptures
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Providence, Rhode Island; November 2023


Nude Self Portrait with Palette, 1908
Richard Gerstl, 1883 - 1908
oil on canvas, 139.3 x 100cm
Postcrossing: United States; 28 days; 1,470 miles
Postmarked: November - December 2023


Emily Carr
The Red Cedar, 1931 - 1933
oil on canvas, 111 x 68.5 cm
Vancouver Art Gallery
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Postmarked: Canada; February 2020


Mathias Neithart, The Cruicifixion, 1510 - 1515
Postcrossing: Germany; 13 days; 4,031 miles
Postmarked: March 2021


MUSKETEER WITH PIPE Pablo Picasso
Original title: Mousquetaire a la pipe et fleurs
Date: 1968
Style: Native Art (Primitivism)
Period: Later years
Genre: genre painting
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Postmarked: Greensboro, North Carolina; September 2022


Pompeii Excavatons - House of the Vettii Family - Angels at the weaving loom
Postcrossing: Portugal; 65 days; 3,568 miles
Postmarked: July - October 2020


William Blake (British, 1757 - 1827)
Albions Angel Stood beside the Stone from America a Prophecy, 1793 - 1821
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Postmarked: June 2024


The Parthenon Sculptures
East Pediment
The Acropolis, Athens, Greece
438 - 432 BCE
The British Museum, Department of Greece and Rome


Edgar Degas (1834 - 1917)
The Loge, c. 1883
Oil on wood, 12.7 x 21.9cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
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Postmarked: July 2024


Mike Wilkins (born 1959)
Preamble, 1987
metal on wood and vinyl
Gift of Nissan Motor Corporation in U.S.A.
Smithsonian American Art Museum