VIa Pomegranate, Vincent Van Gogh: Bank of the Oise at Auvers 1000 piece puzzle. The painting, which is dated 1890 (in the last year of Van Gogh’s life), can be seen in person at the Detroit Institute of Arts. There’s a short video about the painting from the DIA facebook page: https://fb.watch/wBhTrSFfie Van Gogh’s ‘Bank … Read more
Via Pomegranate, a 1000 piece puzzle of Van Gogh’s Undergrowth with Two Figures. The cropped image above includes my puzzle board to show the “bonus” pieces included – took me a while to figure out in the beginning why I had more pieces than I could fit, until I was able to recognize one was … Read more
Via Pomegranate, who make a number of great art puzzles: Edward Hopper: Nighthawks 1000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle Doing this as a jigsaw really makes you aware of what’s going on in the window you’re seeing through – the reflections of the other buildings on the street not seen, as well as the angles and framing … Read more
VIa Pomegranate, Édouard Manet’s A Bar at the Folies-Bergere puzzle
Another Pomegranate Artpiece Puzzle, Diego Rivera: Detroit Industry 1000 pieces. Check out the full image from the Detroit Institute for the Arts: Detroit Industry North Wall. Looks like the color is a bit richer in the original – though the photo here is maybe a bit washed out – the puzzle itself looks great.
Via Amazon, Auguste Renoir Luncheon of the Boating Party puzzle. Like many licensed artworks, there may be multiple versions of this available as a puzzle – the one I did was the EuroGraphics one which was a solid quality puzzle (albeit without a photo insert, so you have to keep looking at the box cover). … Read more
Great puzzle of Norman Rockwell illustrations: Saturday Evening Post Norman Rockwell Collage by Masterpieces. If you’ve spent any time looking at the covers Rockwell did for the Saturday Evening Post, you know they are full of detail and narrative. (You can access the full cover archive at the Saturday Evening Post as a member) . … Read more
Via Amazon: Edward Hopper, Portrait of Orleans I’m a huge fan of Hopper, and especially works he did in Massachusetts on Cape Cod and Cape Ann. (The Cape Ann Museum does a wonderful walking tour of houses Hopper painted in Gloucester). This one, Portrait of Orleans, is in the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco … Read more
There are actually multiple different versions of this as a puzzle – at this point Starry Starry Night is in the public domain so I think anyone can just make it. Ours was from Buffalo Games via Amazon – the 750 piece version (I think they also have a 2000 piece one). Challenging puzzle indeed, … Read more
New puzzle – the characters from The Office Look familiar? George Seurat’s Un dimanche après-midi à l’Île de la Grande Jatte (Sunday Afternoon at the Island of La Grande Jatte), from 1886: