Still Life with Peaches and Grapes

Just Dessert

This new puzzle is base on, William Michael Harnett's 1891 oil on canvas painting with the same name. The painting depicts a variety of foodstuffs arranged on a marble surface. We can see half a coconut, a box of Smyrna figs, a bottle of Maraschino liqueur, a copper pitcher on one side of the table, a pewter tankard on the other side, a ginger jar and some white and red grapes.

Amsterdam Street Scene

Today's puzzle is based on a oil on wood painting by Adrianus Eversen (painter) Dutch, 1818 - 1897. The artist is known for portraying the typical 19th century Dutch atmosphere in his work. In this painting he depicted a small street in Amsterdam. Curious to see how a street in Amsterdam looked back then? Click start, put the pieces back together and take a look.

Holiday on the Hudson

Today's puzzle is based on George Benjamin Luks 1912 oil on canvas painting - "Holiday on the Hudson". It depicts people on holiday going for a boat ride on the Hudson on a sunny Summer day. Luks is best-known for his paintings that reflect the life of people living in the Manhattan's Lower East Side at that time.

Cliff Walk at Pourville

Today's puzzle is based on a painting by Claude Monet. Cliff Walk at Pourville was painted in February 1882 went Claude Monet went to Normandy to retreat from personal and professional pressures and paint. The landscape painting features two women atop a cliff above the sea.

Skiffs

This new puzzle is based on the 1887 oil on canvas painting by Gustave Caillebotte - a French painter who was a member and patron of the Impressionists, although he painted in a more realistic manner than many others in the group. Between 1877 and 1878, Caillebotte made a series of paintings focusing on swimmers, rowers, fishermen, and canoers at his family estate in Yerres. One of these paintings is Skiffs or "Pesissoires sur L'Yerres" (Flat-Bottom Canoes on the Yerres) how it was originally named. The painting was first exhibited at the fourth impressionist exhibition in 1879.

Poppies, Isles of Shoals

The Isles of Shoals are a group of small islands are situated approximately 6 miles (10 km) off the New Hampshire coast in the United States. The author of the painting this puzzle is based on, Childe Hassam, was a regular visitor of the islands. The view featured in this painting, centered on an outcropping called Babb's Rock, was one of Hassam's favorite places on the islands. He painted this area many times.

A Month's Darning

Today's puzzle is based on Enoch Wood Perry's 1876 painting with the same name. The painting depicts a young woman sitting by a window darning. If you didn't know, darning is a sewing technique for repairing holes or worn areas in fabric or knitting. The painting is called A Month's Daring because, in the original painting (not visible in this puzzle), by her side she has a basket full of clothes and socks that need fixing.

Hummingbird and Passionflowers

Today's puzzle is based on a painting by Martin Johnson Heade. The American artist was fascinated with hummingbirds and painted them in several of his works. The particular species of the hummingbird represented in this painting is the black-eared fairy. It lives in the same area of the Amazon basin where the passionflower grows.

The Poor Poet

Another art inspired puzzle is here. In this new one we feature "The Poor Poet" - the best known and most popular painting by German painter Carl Spitzweg. The painting was made in 1839 and had three versions. The alleged first version is privately owned and used to be on loan to the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg. The best known version is now in the Neue Pinakothek, Munich (the one featured in this puzzle). Another version was held in the National Gallery, Berlin. The one featured in this puzzle depicts a poet in his poor attic room. Spitzweg possibly borrowed his title from the drama by August von Kotzebue, The Poor Poet (1812).

Snap the Whip

Today's puzzle is based on Winslow Homer's Snap the Whip 1872 oil painting. The painting depicts a group o playing crack(snap) the whip. If you didn't know, crack the whip is a simple outdoor children's game played in small groups, either on grass or ice, usually grass. Homer spent several summers in New York's Hudson Valley, and is said to have been inspired to paint this scene by local boys playing at the Hurley schoolhouse.

Old Hook Mill

This fun new puzzle is based on Edward Lamson Henry's oil on canvas painting called "Old Hook Mill, Easthampton". If you didn't know, the Hook Windmill was the last wind-powered grain mill built in East Hampton, New York. It was constructed in 1806, it operated until 1908 and it still stands today. In the painting E.L. Henry depicts the mill in the calm after a storm. At the mill's entrance several men can be seen loading sacks of flour into a horse-drawn wagon.

His First Appearance in Public

This new puzzle is based on the oil on wood painting called "His First Appearance in Public" by the Canadian painter Charles Caleb Ward. In this beautiful painting you can se a young boy playing his violin for the first time in front of his friends. So what are you waiting for? Click start and put the painting back together and complete today's puzzle. Have fun!