The Nine Muses

• Many of Walter's paintings were of the social realist genre depicting working class folk and their struggle for survival. Some of his paintings highlight the empathy he had for the hard-working fishermen and their families amongst whom he lived, no more so than today's featured painting, Never Morning Wore to Evening but Some Heart Did Break. Before us we see an old woman comforting a younger one. Her arm is wrapped around the young woman's shoulder who holds her head in her hands and cries over a fisherman who never made it back home. Look how the artist shows the moonlight dancing over the ripples of the sea. This turmoil of human emotions is in direct contrast to the flat calm sea we can observe in the background of the painting. It is the calm after the storm which has taken the life of the young woman's beloved. This is a very emotional painting and "speaks" more than any words could possibly do. It succinctly illustrates the tragedies which can befall the family of working-class fishermen as they battle against all weathers simply to put food on the family table.

Never Morning Wore to Evening but Some Heart Did Break 1894 Walter Langley

Romantic Couple Seated by Piano 1922 Dean Cornwell

Zaduma 1892 Jozef Rapacki

please, Can you hear it quietly?

“Evening by the Lake,” Max Nonnenbruch, 1901

Portrait of Josette 1916 Juan Gris

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the three witches in macbeth 1827 alexander maria

Portrait of Maude Abrantes 1908 Amedeo Modigliani

"In Damascus" by Carl Haag (1889)