A painting of a lake and a field of daffodils sits above a poem; coloured dots float from the picture into the words that describe it.William Wordsworth (d. 1850), “I wandered lonely as a cloud” · Public domain · the painting is an original drawing

Choose a painting. Look a while. Write what it gives you.

Today’s paintings

Paris Street; Rainy Day

Gustave Caillebotte (French, 1848–1894)

Nikolaus Gottfried Stuber

Flower Girl in Holland

George Hitchcock

George Inness (American, 1825–1894)

The Gulf of Salerno

Joseph Wright of Derby (English, 1734-1797)

Jeanne (Spring)

Henri Charles Guérard (French, 1846-1897)

Gustave Courbet

The Assumption of the Virgin

El Greco (Doménikos Theotokópoulos; Greek, active in Spain, 1541–1614)

York Harbor, Coast of Maine

Martin Johnson Heade (American, 1819–1904)

Landscape with Two Poplars

Vasily Kandinsky

Boats in a Harbor

Richard Parkes Bonington