Ode to Spring
Contemplation – Harry’s Potter by Miryam Relis, 2020, female face made of pottery. Photograph by the artist.
Dimensions: 11 inches tall by 6 inches.
Available for purchase from the artist.
Daffodils – Photoodle 2303-2,
Ludwig Keck (American)
2023, Digital art based on a photograph.
Copyright © 2023 Ludwig Keck. All Rights Reserved.
Daffodil – Photoodle 2303-1,
Ludwig Keck (American)
2023, Digital art based on a photograph.
Copyright © 2023 Ludwig Keck. All Rights Reserved.
Artists: See instructions in Member Lounge for submitting your “Spring” images.
Art from around the world
Many leading museums have placed images of art in their collections into the public domain. Our exhibit here shows re-processed images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cleveland Museum of Art.
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Spring Landscape, Thomas Doughty, American (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1793–1856 New York), ca. 1853–56, Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 44 x 62 in. (111.8 x 157.5 cm)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of George F. Shelton and Mrs. F. H. Markoe, in memory of their father, Theodore B. Shelton, 1917
A Road in Louveciennes, Auguste Renoir (French, Limoges 1841–1919 Cagnes-sur-Mer), ca. 1870, Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 15 x 18 1/4 in. (38.1 x 46.4 cm)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Lesley and Emma Sheafer Collection, Bequest of Emma A. Sheafer, 1973
Spring Flowers, 1864. Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926).
Oil on fabric; framed: 144.5 x 117.2 x 12.1 cm (56 7/8 x 46 1/8 x 4 3/4 in.); unframed: 116.8 x 90.5 cm (46 x 35 5/8 in.).
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Hanna Fund 1953.155
Large Jar with Peonies and Chrysanthemums,
late 1600s. Japan, Edo period (1615-1868). Imari ware porcelain with underglaze blue decoration; diameter: 30.5 cm (12 in.); height: 40.1 cm (15 13/16 in.).
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Collection 1964.266
Paris Almanac, 1897: Tail-piece, Spring, 1897. Auguste Louis Lepère (French, 1849–1918).
Wood engraving;
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of M. Knoedler and Company 1953.550
Landscape Album in Various Styles: Boating in Spring Water, 1684. Zha Shibiao (Chinese, 1615–1698).
Album leaf, ink and light color on paper; overall: 29.9 x 39.4 cm (11 3/4 x 15 1/2 in.).
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Severance A. Millikin 1955.37.3
Flower Study of a Miniature Lily of the Valley, c. 1885–1915. House of Fabergé (Russian, 1842–1918). Pearls, jade, rock crystal, gold, diamonds; overall: 5.1 x 2.3 cm (2 x 7/8 in.).
The Cleveland Museum of Art, The India Early Minshall Collection 1966.445
Birds Gather under the Spring Willow, late 1400s-early 1500. Yin Hong (Chinese, c. 1430-c. 1500).
Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk; painting: 240 x 195.5 cm (94 1/2 x 76 15/16 in.); overall with knobs: 280 x 204 cm (110 1/4 x 80 5/16 in.).
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1974.31
Four Springs in and around Spa: The Fourth Spring, The Spring at Sauvenière, c. 1650. Allart van Everdingen (Dutch, 1621–1675).
Etching; sheet: 14.8 x 19 cm (5 13/16 x 7 1/2 in.); platemark: 13.1 x 17.4 cm (5 3/16 x 6 7/8 in.).
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1983.163
Returning Peasants in a Spring Evening, early 1600s. Tao Hong (Chinese, active c. 1610–1640).
Album leaf, ink and color on silk; overall: 24.5 x 26.7 cm (9 5/8 x 10 1/2 in.).
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Sherman E. Lee 1999.223