House Painting

This publication celebrates the promised gift to The Metropolitan Museum of Art from the Oscar Tang family of twelve major works from the C. C. Wang Family Collection, one of the great private collections of Chinese old master paintings to be assembled in the twentieth century. Ranging in date from the tenth to the early eighteenth century, these works significantly extend the Museum's holdings and reveal those areas of Chinese painting of particular interest to Mr. Wang. …

This group of one hundred American paintings—representing about a tenth of the Metropolitan Museum's holdings of eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth-century paintings in the American field—has been selected to provide an attractive and fair impression both of these holdings and of American painting in general…

The subject of the first lesson in this video is flowers in a glass; in it we’ll be using all eight of our colors. Remembering to “Have Some More Fun” we’ll start with a dark background this time and learn about painting flowers. With tips about painting back to front and how to paint glass- It’s easier than you think! Lastly we discover a trick from the “littlest room in the house”. In the second lesson we go the Irelands Balanchine Castle to a beautiful scene of a tree lined country lane and a flower filled meadow. We also learn a short history lesson about the names of the colors we’re using.