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Akseli Gallen-Kallela

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Loose oil sketch of a lone green tree on a plain, with a blue mountain and pastel streaked sky behind.

Mt. Donia Sabuk

1909

Oil painting of a cut spruce lying in a snowy farmyard beside a log wall, with a cat and a bird in flight.

Spruces in a Farmyard

1887

Loose painting of a brown cow standing in shallow water beside a shirtless boy, with pine trees and a cloudy sky.

Cow and Boy

1885

Head of a Girl, Little Anna

1897

Oil portrait of a man with tousled brown hair and mustache in a dark high-necked top against a gray background.

Portrait of Maxim Gorky

1906

Painting of log construction: a woman nursing a child, an axeman shaping logs, and a worker on a rocky hillside.

Building, study for the Jusélius Mausoleum Frescoes

1903

Loose oil sketch of Mount Kenya with pink-lit peaks above blue sky, green and purple scrub and small trees in the foreground.

Mount Kenya

1909

Painting of a snow-covered log cabin with deep drifts and a footpath in the foreground under a grey winter sky.

Winter Landscape

1905

Sketch of a bearded man rowing a boat while a nude figure sits at the stern, with men on a hillside below.

The Departure of Väinämöinen

1893

Winter forest scene with branches heavy under snow, pale blue-grey tones and reddish pine trunks.

Winter, study for the Jusélius Mausoleum Frescoes

1902

Bearded men in red cap and white clothes gather around a giant pike on a rocky shore beside blue water.

The Giant Pike

1904

Loose oil landscape of a valley with blue and violet mountains, green and blue trees, and a pale streaked sky.

River Valley

1909

Despair, study for the "By the River of Tuonela", Jusélius Mausoleum

1903

Loose oil sketch of white houses with red roofs, blue mountains, and an orange tree in a sunny landscape.

Nairobin ulkopuolelta

1909

Sketch of many hands gripping wooden oars across a planked ship deck, with figures in dark headwraps at the bottom.

The defence of the Sampo, Sketch for the cupola frescos of the Finnish Pavilion in Paris

1899

Painting of a wooden rowboat and driftwood on a sandy lakeshore, with calm water and blue hills under cloudy skies.

Venevanhus

1924

Loose oil sketch of an adobe house with a glowing window, snowy ground and blue mountains under a moonlit sky.

Taos Home in Moonlight

1925

Nude woman with arms raised, hair blending into a fiery sun, before a gold disc and blue starry sky, in a gilded shrine.

Ad Astra

1894-96

Portrait of Emil Wikström

1883

Painting of a brick cathedral tower and red roofs seen through spring trees, with a wooden post in the foreground.

Turku Cathedral

1884

Painting of a snow-dusted adobe gateway, a small tree with yellow leaves, and two riders on horseback in a winter landscape.

The Gate in Taos

1925

Loose oil sketch of Roman soldiers, women in robes and fallen bodies before a classical building and cypress trees.

Sommitteluharjoitelma, roomalainen aihe

Alaston miesmalli

1888

Oil portrait of an elderly woman in a black headscarf and red shawl, in an ornate gilded frame.

Old Peasant Woman

1884

Painting of a seated nude woman in a cluttered interior with white lilies, a guitar, and a patterned sofa, signed Axel Gallen

Démasquée

1888

Triptych with three scenes: a woman in a forest, a nude water maiden beside a man in a boat, and a nude woman on a rock.

Aino Myth, Triptych

1891

Painting of a nude man pushing a red boat ashore, watched by a crowd of onlookers and nude figures in a dark setting.

By the River of Tuonela

1903

Painting of a calm lake with reflections of clouds and trees, a wooded island at right, and distant blue hills.

Lake Keitele

1905

Two figures in winter clothing with a crossbow beside a leafless tree on a rock, with a frozen landscape behind them.

Joukahainen's revenge

1897

Snowy winter landscape with a snow-laden pine beside a rushing golden river flowing between icy banks.

Imatra talvella

1893

Painting of a barefoot boy in patched clothes watching a black crow feeding in a grassy field.

Boy with a Crow

1884

Four men at a candlelit table at night, with a dark winged figure looming above them under a red and blue sky.

Symposium

1894