Traveling around the world through famous spring paintings.

America

This stunning spring painting is by Julian Onderdonk, an Impressionist painter from Texas, who is considered the father of Texas painting. He is known for his breathtaking paintings of Texas landscapes with carpets of blue woolly flowers.

Blue woolly bean flowers are the state flower of Texas. Growing in the arid lands of the American West, they are remarkably resilient. Each year in early April, vast fields of blue woolly bean flowers begin to bloom in Central and Southern Texas, a breathtaking sight.

Poland

Józef Mehoffer was one of the most respected Polish painters of his time, and his house in Jankówka near Kraków is an important part of his legacy. The house has a charming old-fashioned style and was decorated by him with exquisite elegance.

After his death, his family donated the Mehoffer House to the State Treasury, and it eventually came into the possession of the National Museum in Kraków. The Mehoffer House has been open to the public since 1996 as a museum dedicated to the renowned painter. This painting depicts the large courtyard of the Mehoffer House in full bloom during spring.

Spain

Claude Monet described Joaquín Sorolla as "Master of Light." Sorolla is known for his bright works and radiant color palette. Although his works show the unmistakable influence of the Impressionists, Sorolla himself considered himself stylistically similar to John Singer Sargent and Anders Zorn.

This painting, created in the spring of 1920, is one of many scenes from his garden in Madrid, now the Sorolla Museum.

Japan

Hiroshi Yoshida was a successful Japanese painter and woodblock printmaker from the 20th century. He was one of the greatest painters of the shin-hanga style and was famous for his landscape prints. Yoshida traveled extensively around the world and created several woodblock prints on subjects outside of Japan.

However, this painting by Yoshida depicts traditional Japanese themes and focuses on the beauty of spring in Japan—cherry trees.

Denmark

Born after the end of Denmark's Golden Age, Peder Mork Mønsted was a renowned Danish painter, celebrated for his serene and poetic depictions of Danish and Scandinavian landscapes and coastlines. This painting portrays the rural Scandinavian countryside in May with lilac blossoms in full bloom.

India

Spring orVasantIt has long been revered as a time of love, music, and celebration in Hindu mythology, and is particularly associated with the god Krishna. This painting is a miniature version of a larger work, belonging to the early 18th-century Bilaspur court in northern India.

The painting depicts a vibrant spring landscape with two women wearing lehenga, picking flowers and putting them into baskets.

Australia

The painting of the Brisbane Botanic Gardens in the spring of 1903 was painted in September, the time when spring arrives in Australia. R. Godfrey Rivers, an English artist working in Australia at the time, depicted himself and his wife, Selena, drinking tea under a tall, magnificent jacaranda tree in full bloom.

This jacaranda tree holds a very special place in Australia because it was one of the first jacaranda trees planted from seeds imported from South America in 1864. Many jacaranda trees in the suburbs of Brisbane today are descendants of this first tree.

Older brother

Bluebells are one of the most beautiful wildflowers in the world. From mid-April to the end of May, millions of bluebells bloom densely, covering the forests of England like a carpet. This flower is found throughout European forests, but is most beautiful in the warm climate of Southwest England. The carpets of bluebells in bloom, as depicted in Benjamin Williams' painting "Leader," are arguably the iconic image of a vibrant and fragrant spring in England.

While his early works often focused more on intricate and meticulous details, Benjamin Williams Leader's later works took on a more Impressionist style and were widely appreciated.

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This airy and vibrant scene conveys a sense of optimism and peace amidst the Italian spring. It is the work of the Russian master painter Isaac Ilyich Levitan, renowned for his diverse and outstanding landscape paintings. Although he died at the relatively young age of 40, he left behind an impressive legacy of hundreds of artworks that continue to inspire generations to come.

France

This idyllic spring scene is set in the French countryside in 1890. Although not a soul is visible, the house and courtyard pillars in the background enhance the rustic charm of the countryside. This painting of peaceful rural happiness is by Robert Vonnoh, one of the first American painters to explore the Impressionist movement, known for his landscape paintings.

After beginning his art studies in Boston, Vonnoh moved to Paris around the 1800s. By the late 1880s, Vonnoh had settled in the art colony of Grèz-sur-Loing, south of Fontainebleau.

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