01 Work, Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes - 35

Abbott Handerson Thayer, (1849–1921)

Angel, c. 1887

Oil on canvas

Height: 36.2 ″ (92 cm); Width: 28.1 ″ (71.4 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum,  Washington, D.C.

An angel is generally a supernatural being found in various religions and mythologies. In Abrahamic religions and Zoroastrianism, angels are often depicted as benevolent celestial beings who act as intermediaries between God or Heaven and Humanity.[1][2] Other roles of angels include protecting and guiding human beings, and carrying out God's tasks. More on Angels

Abbott Handerson Thayer (August 12, 1849 – May 29, 1921) was an American artist, naturalist and teacher. As a painter of portraits, figures, animals and landscapes, he enjoyed a certain prominence during his lifetime, and his paintings are represented in the major American art collections. He is perhaps best known for his 'angel' paintings, some of which use his children as models.

During the last third of his life, he worked together with his son, Gerald Handerson Thayer, on a book about protective coloration in nature, titled Concealing-Coloration in the Animal Kingdom. First published by Macmillan in 1909, then reissued in 1918, it may have had an effect on military camouflage during World War I. However it was roundly mocked by Theodore Roosevelt and others for its assumption that all animal coloration is cryptic.

Thayer also influenced American art through his efforts as a teacher, training apprentices in his New Hampshire studio. More on Abbott Handerson Thayer

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01 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes - 30

William Baxter Closson

The Angel, ca. 1912

Oil on canvas

57 1/8 x 37 3/8 in. (145.0 x 94.9 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

An angel is generally a supernatural being found in various religions and mythologies. In Abrahamic religions and Zoroastrianism, angels are often depicted as benevolent celestial beings who act as intermediaries between God or Heaven and Humanity. Other roles of angels include protecting and guiding human beings, and carrying out God's tasks. More on Angels

William Baxter Palmer Closson (October 13, 1848 - May 30, 1926) was an American artist, born in Thetford, Vermont on October 13, 1848.

As a young adult, he was educated at Thetford Academy before graduating and working as a clerk in a railroad office.

Soon, he moved to Boston, Massachusetts, and worked as an apprentice wood engraver with Samuel S. Kilburn. He studied drawing at the Lowell Institute, then went on to work for Harper's Magazine and various publishing houses in Boston. While in Boston, he shared a studio with painter George Fuller.[3]

Seventeen of his paintings are in the American Art collection at the Smithsonian Institution. He also has works on display at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford and the Cleveland Museum of Art.

He died on May 30, 1926 in Hartford, Connecticut and is buried in the Gallaudet plot at Cedar Hill Cemetery. More on William Baxter Palmer Closson

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01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART - Interpretation of the bible, With Footnotes - 127

Fanny Nushka

Study for an Angel to Come

Oil on Canvas

11.8 H x 15.7 W x 1.6 in

Private collection

"This painting is inspired by one of my favorite painters. Abott Thayer. Focusing strictly on the colors I gave the painting a brand new structure and played with the viewers eye, as where the focus would be." Fanny Nushka

Fanny Nushka, "I was born in 1983 in Lille, France and I now live in Marseille, Southern France. I am a figurative painter. American painter Maggie Siner gave me my first painting lessons when I was a teenager. Since then, I always painted - even when I was a student or a busy contemporary art gallery manager. In 2014 I decided to dedicate myself to painting. I am now a happy, self-taught and full-time painter." More on Fanny Nushka

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01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART - Contemporary Interpretation of the Bible!, With Footnotes - 10f

Dimitar Voynov-Jr, Sofia 1971

Angel

24x18

Private collection

An angel is generally a supernatural being found in various religions and mythologies. In Abrahamic religions and Zoroastrianism, angels are often depicted as benevolent celestial beings who act as intermediaries between God or Heaven and Humanity.[1][2] Other roles of angels include protecting and guiding human beings, and carrying out God's tasks. More on Angels

Dimitar Voynov - Jr. was born in 1971 in Sofia. In 1990 he graduated from the Art School "Il. Petrov "in Sofia, and in 1997 received his master's degree in mural painting at the National Academy of Arts, Sofia. Since 1998 he has had over 60 participations in group exhibitions in Bulgaria and Europe and more than 30 solo exhibitions in Sofia, Plovdiv, Varna, Tryavna, Freiberg and Berlin - Germany, France, Luxembourg. Dimitar Voynov is the winner of the annual award for painting at Triadis Gallery (2004), Vazrazhdane Gallery, Plovdiv (2005), Krasnaya line, Sofia (2008). His paintings are owned by collections in Bulgaria, Switzerland, Austria, Greece, Germany, France, Spain, England, Italy, Holland, Portugal, USA. She lives and works in Sofia. More on Dimitar Voynov - Jr.

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