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“Fumée d'ambre gris” (Smoke of Ambergris). John Singer Sargent (American; 1856–1925). Oil on canvas, 1880. Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, Massachusetts.

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January 13, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Camille Pissarro, The Artist's Palette with a Landscape, c. 1878–80, oil on panel. Clark Art Institute, #art #arthistory #pissarro #clarkart #arthistory #fineart #artmuseum
January 29, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Sargent’s range and bravura technique go far beyond society portraiture.

We celebrate him today, born #onthisday in 1856.

John Singer Sargent, A Venetian Interior, c. 1880–82, oil on canvas. The Clark, 1955.580

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January 13, 2025 at 4:42 AM
@clarkart Sargent’s range and bravura technique go far beyond society portraiture.

We celebrate his birthday, January 12, 1856.

John Singer Sargent, A Street in Venice, c. 1880–82, oil on canvas. The Clark, Williamstown, Massachusetts.

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January 13, 2025 at 7:45 PM
@clarkart Sargent’s range and bravura technique go far beyond society portraiture.

We celebrate him today, born January 12, 1856.

John Singer Sargent, Neapolitan Children Bathing, 1879, oil on canvas. The Clark, 1955.852

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January 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Wonderful hike through the woods at The Clark #clarkart #groundwork2025
Works by Aboubakar Fofama, Laura Ellen Bacon, Milena Naef, Hugh Hayden
November 22, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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The outdoor grounds at Clark Art Museum from the archives
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Hardwood trees with red and yellow fall leaves on either side of the frame; in between is the gentle rise of a mountain covered in trees changing colors-red, yellow, and orange
August 19, 2026 at 7:18 PM
@clarkart Goya presented this painting to the king, who had requested “pleasant, light-hearted subjects” for his commissioned tapestries.

Francisco de Goya, Autumn, 1786, oil on canvas. The Clark, 1955.749.

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September 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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“The Women of Amphissa” by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (Dutch-born British) - Oil on canvas / 1887 - The Clark Art Institute (Williamstown, Massachusetts) #WomenInArt #LawrenceAlmaTadema #AlmaTadema #ClarkArt #VictorianArt #ClassicalArt #blueskyart #art #arttext #BritishArt #ClarkArtInstitute #1880sArt
In a broad marble marketplace washed with pale morning light, women gather in small, emotionally distinct groups. Several exhausted bacchants lie asleep or half-awake on the stone pavement, their bodies slack, their hair loosened, their white and cream garments slipping into soft folds around them. One red-haired woman leans forward as if just rising; another sits upright, dazed, while a townswoman in deep blue bends toward her with food or drink. At the left, women cluster around baskets and provisions. At the center and rear, more figures stand in calm, vertical lines beneath a garlanded wall and near a monumental doorway. The contrast is striking: some women are disheveled, collapsed, and vulnerable; others are composed, attentive, and protective. British artist Lawrence Alma-Tadema (born in the Netherlands) orchestrates the whole scene through textures like cool stone, translucent drapery, dark hair, warm skin, and the hush of dawn after a long night. The title refers not to the sleeping revelers alone, but to the civic women of Amphissa, whose compassion is the real subject. Alma-Tadema drew the scene from ancient Greek writer Plutarch’s account of the Thyiades, female followers of Dionysus, who wandered in ritual ecstasy from Phocis and fell asleep in Amphissa’s marketplace. Though the cities were hostile, the local women formed a protective barrier around them, fed them when they awoke, and helped them return safely. For a Victorian audience, this historical episode became a moral image of female courage, restraint, and mercy. Rather than staging battle or scandal, Alma-Tadema centers women caring for women across political and social difference. Painted in 1887, when he was at the height of his fame for lavish classical reconstructions, this work turns antiquity into an ethical drama. Civilization is not triumph or punishment, but collective tenderness while the cool marble and luminous fabrics make care itself look monumental.
March 21, 2026 at 7:00 AM
“Osmington Bay.” Oil on canvas, 1816. John Constable (English; 1776–1837). The Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts.

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October 3, 2024 at 2:18 AM
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The next New England Synth Fest will be Saturday, January 11, 2025, at The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass.

Performances by Architrave, Hissquiet, Michael William Gilbert, NXOR, and OrangePeelMystic.

Info: www.clarkart.edu/event/detail...

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New England Synth Fest at The Clark Art Institute Williamstown, Mass. Saturday, January 11, 6pm Performances by: Architrave Hissquiet Michael William Gilbert NXOR OrangePeelMystic @nesynthfest @clarkart 225 South Street Williamstown, Mass. 01267
December 19, 2024 at 2:48 AM
“Beach Scene.” Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (Spanish; 1863–1923). Oil on panel, ca. 1910s–20s. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts.

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October 7, 2024 at 9:40 AM
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Here’s hoping Wisdom succeeds

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August 13, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Niña dormida 1880 Pierre- #AugusteRenoir #francés, 1841-1919 www.clarkart.edu #Massachusetts #EU
Se cree que la #modelo era una residente de #Montmartre conocida por su colorido argot y estilo de vida errático. #museoparticular #art
"Niña dormida (Niña con un gato)", 1880 Pierre-Auguste Renoir (francés, 1841-1919) @clarkart Williamstown, Massachusetts, EE. UU. Una mujer joven dormita en una silla, sus medias a rayas y su falda lisa sugieren su origen humilde. La ropa interior que se desliza por su hombro atrae nuestra mirada, al tiempo que da la impresión de que no se da cuenta de que la observan. Se cree que la modelo era una residente de Montmartre conocida por su colorido argot y estilo de vida errático. El carácter sugerente de la imagen se ve subrayado por la presencia del igualmente dormido gato que descansa en su regazo."
December 25, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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@sonyagz123 and I spent this afternoon visiting old friends at the @clarkart #williamstown #berkshires
June 6, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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Medallion (You/We), by Gluck. Viewed at Clark Art Institute, 2025

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June 21, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Cloud Study. John Constable. (British; 1776–1837). On cream laid paper, mounted on canvas, ca. 1821–22. Gift of the Manton Art Foundation in memory of Sir Edwin and Lady Manton, 2007. The Clark.

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December 14, 2024 at 3:50 AM
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THIS WEEKEND! New England Synth Fest, Saturday, January 11, 2025, at The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass.

www.clarkart.edu/event/detail...

Performances by Hissquiet, Michael William Gilbert, NXOR with visuals by VJ Zombie, OrangePeelMystic, and Architrave.
New England Synth Fest at The Clark Art Institute Williamstown, Mass. Saturday, January 11, 6pm Performances by: Hissquiet Michael William Gilbert with visuals by VJ Zombie NXOR with visuals by VJ Zombie OrangePeelMystic Architrave @nesynthfest @clarkart 225 South Street Williamstown, Mass. 01267
January 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Derrick Adams’ “Navigator 2” from the ViewMaster exhibit at Boston’s ICA (2026) and the fall grounds of Clark Art Museum (2021) For this week's #PalacesAndGardens theme #PompAndPatterns #EastCoastKin #Art #textiles #Fall #BostonICA #ClarkArt #DerrickAdams #ViewMaster #Museum
LEFT TO RIGHT Navigator 2, 2013 Faux brick, paint, glitter, wood, fabric, and metal Courtesy the artist and Gagosian Figure in the Urban Landscape 43, 2019 Acrylic, ink, graphite, grip tape, model cars, fabric, paper, and nylon on wood panel Collection of Carole Server and Oliver Frankel, New York In his Figure in the Urban Landscape series, Adams depicts the everyday scenes of a city. This portrait is made from painted surfaces, collage, fabric, and toy cars, combining elements drawn from modernist abstraction, African sculpture, and the artist's own life. Bodies are flattened, and the city streets are reduced to bold blocks of gridded colors. Miniature model cars seem to drive across the painted roads, drawing attention to the city as both real and imagined. The grid suggests movement, but also control, highlighting how individuals navigate city blocks and neighborhoods. As the figure moves through this scene, environment shifts and adjusts around them. By focusing on everyday movement, Adams opens space to imagine different stories shaped by self-determination. Fall trees colored green, yellow, red, brownish orange. Black trunks and some triangular bent branches on the left side of the frame
September 17, 2026 at 6:33 PM
“Rockets and Blue Lights (Close at Hand) to Warn Steamboats of Shoal Water.” Joseph Mallord William Turner (British; 1775–1851). Oil on canvas, 1840. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts.

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April 23, 2024 at 11:55 PM
@clarkart Dubbed one of “les trois grandes dames” of Impressionism by an art critic in the late 1800s … marking Berthe Morisot’s birthday (January 14)

Berthe Morisot, Dahlias (detail), 1876, oil on canvas. The Clark, Williamstown, Massachusetts

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January 16, 2025 at 1:34 PM
@clarkart Down the back, but who cares, still the Louvre . . .  

Henri-Joseph Harpignies, View of the Louvre, with the Grande Galerie and the Pavillon de Floor, c. 1870, oil on canvas. The Clark, 2018.10.1.

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November 9, 2024 at 2:18 AM
@clarkart “I will show you the sunset if you will sit by me, but I cannot bring it there, for so much gold is heavy.”

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Sunset, 1879 or 1881, oil on canvas. The Clark, 1955.602.

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September 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Thick thighs get censored, so facts: Nymphs and Satyr by William-Adolphe Bouguereau 1873 (see alt)
It’s ginormous;
K2, age 11, beholding its much larger-than-life for the 1st time: “Those ladies sure don’t miss leg day”
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Robert Sterling Clark discovered the piece in storage and acquired it in 1942. The piece is currently on display at the Clark Art Institute located in Williamstown, Massachusetts. According to the Clark Institute, in the painting, which is based on the Greek mythology, "a group of nymphs have been surprised, while bathing in a secluded pond, by a lascivious satyr. Some of the nymphs have retreated into the shadows on the right; others, braver than their friends, are trying to dampen the satyr's ardor by pulling him into the cold water – one of the satyr's hooves is already wet and he clearly wants to go no further. Bouguereau’s working methods were traditional; he made a number of sketches and drawings of carefully posed human figures in complicated interconnected poses, linking them together in this wonderfully rhythmical composition." The painting is the largest and one of the most beloved of the Clark collection History: Purchased for 35,000 francs by the American art collector and speculator John Wolfe on 26 June, 1873, it was displayed in his mansion for many years alongside other high-style French academic paintings. It was sold at auction in 1888, after which the painting was displayed in the bar of the Hoffman House Hotel, New York Cityuntil 1901, when it was bought and stored in a warehouse, the buyer hoping to keep its 'offensive' content from the public. (From Wikipedia)
September 8, 2026 at 10:42 PM
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Morning saunter, 11/7/25. @sonyagz123 and I enjoyed a quick meander through (some of) the Ground/Work 2025 exhibition on #stonehill at the @clarkart #williamstown #berkshires #massachusetts #morningsaunter
November 7, 2025 at 6:03 PM