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Cuno Amiet

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Fan account of Cuno Amiet, a Swiss painter, illustrator, graphic artist and sculptor. 

Landscape from the Jura Mountains, Cuno Amiet, 1924, Tate

date inscribed Presented by Mrs Leila Pirani 1960 Size: support: 251 x 298 mm Medium: Watercolour on paper

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/amiet-landscape-from-the-jura-mountains-t00394

View from the Studio, Cuno Amiet, 1921, Tate

date inscribed Presented by Mrs Leila Pirani 1960 Size: support: 213 x 152 mm Medium: Watercolour on paper

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/amiet-view-from-the-studio-t00393

Untitled, Arshile Gorky, 1943, Art Institute of Chicago: Prints and Drawings

In July 1943, Arshile Gorky vacationed in the foothills of the Appalachians, at the Virginia farm of his wife’s parents. There he devoted himself to drawing outdoors, developing a vocabulary of leaf, seed, and pod shapes from the lush mid-summer landscape. Drawn with obvious passion, this work, with its essentially joyous riot of color, provides little indication of the suffering and despair of Gorky’s last years, which eventually caused him to take his own life. Gift of the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation, Peter B. Bensinger, Louis H. Silver, Joseph R. Shapiro, and the Ada Turnbull Hertle Fund Size: 578 x 736 mm Medium: Wax crayons and colored crayon and graphite with scraping and incising, on ivory wove paper

Mädchenkopf, Erich Heckel, 1920, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Prints and Drawings

In this stark woodcut, Erich Heckel shows his girlfriend and future wife Sidi Riha as she was convalescing from a long illness. The unguarded image reveals her physical and psychological hardship. Size: 10 3/16 x 6 ¾ in. (25.88 x 17.15 cm) (image) 14 x 9 7/8 in. (35.56 x 25.08 cm) (sheet) Medium: Woodcut