Cross Stitch Pattern List

O'Keeffe-Raeburn

Georgia O'Keeffe

Blue and Green Music
An early abstract O'Keeffe work influenced by the Modernist notion that artists' subjects should be their personal ideas and feelings and that these could be visualized most effectively through harmonious arrangements of line, color, and notan (the Japanese system for arranging lights and darks). Here dark colors form an open cone containing flowing light colors, with rippling greens nearby. (Modernist, 1919)

Julian Onderdonk

The Quarry
A field of Texas bluebonnets (a type of lupine) in the Texas Hill Country springtime. They are interspersed with a few scraggly mesquite trees and prickly pear cacti. In the background is a stone quarry with its buildings, and a fenceline and distant hills. (Impressionist, about 1915)

Bluebonnets at Sunrise
A springtime field covered in flowering bluebonnets, with a few yellow flowers scattered here and there. A few scraggly live oaks and mesquites border the field. A path leads downhill and toward distant hills in the misty sunrise. (Impressionist, 1917)

Maxfield Parrish

Daybreak
A girl in a tunic sleeping, her arms flung over her head, on a veranda amid high mountain peaks. She is framed by two columns and the branches of flowering trees. A young nude girl leans over her watching her sleep. The brilliant oblique rays of the rising sun sharply highlight the two girls, the columns, and the mountainsides. See PAR001-D for a chart of a portion of this painting. (The Golden Age of Illustration, 1922)

Daybreak (detail)
A girl in a tunic sleeping, her arms flung over her head, on a veranda amid high mountain peaks. She is framed by a column and the branches of flowering trees. A young nude girl leans over her watching her sleep. The brilliant oblique rays of the rising sun sharply highlight the two girls, the columns, and the mountainsides. This is a portion of the full painting; see PAR001 for the full painting. (The Golden Age of Illustration, 1922)

Ecstasy
A young woman stands on a rocky outcrop in the mountains, the wind whipping her tunic about her, with a brilliant blue sky filled with billowing white clouds behind her. She cradles her head in her arms and gazes enraptured at the scene before her. (Golden Age of Illustration, 1929)

Peaceful Night
A traditional white frame New England church with steeple and clock tower at night. The moon floods the landscape with a golden light. A few sturdy pine trees stand among the hills of snow. (1950)

Arizona
Rugged pillars of lava rock framing a glaring blue sky. The sun intensely lights one crag a rosy orange and yellow while throwing the other into deep purple shadow. (1930)

Christmas Pudding
Two boys and a man in elaborate Elizabethan dress standing before an arched colonnade. The man holds a shallow silver basin containing a round plum pudding, while the boys hold silver trays, one with a bowl of apples and the other with a bowl and pitcher. The background (white area) is not stitched and the pattern is designed for white fabric. (Golden Age of Illustration, 1897)

New Moon
A sliver of a moon rising in the early evening sky. A large oak tree in autumn foliage stands in the foreground on the banks of a creek, and behind it are a house and barn. (1958)

Paul Peel

The Young Botanist
A little girl seated on a grassy sand dune intently studying some flowers. She is wearing a striped dress and apron and a bedraggled straw hat trimmed with flowers. A leather notebook lies next to her at the edge of the dune overlooking the ocean. (1888-90)

After the Bath
Two naked children, freshly bathed, warm themselves before a fire in a dark room. Their skin glows in the light of the fire. One is seated on a carpet; the other is standing. The mantel is dimly outlined, and a gilt-framed mirror on a stand is the only article of furniture that can be clearly seen. (Canadian, 1890)

Coles Phillips

Feeding the Chickens
A woman in a white dress with black dots feeding a flock of black and white chickens. This is one of Coles Phillips famed "fade-away" ladies: although we seem to see the edges of the white objects, this is an optical illusion. They actually fade into the background. The background is not stitched, and white fabric should be used. This pattern is equivalent to a 150 x 150 pattern in terms of total stitches. (1908)

Antonio Ponce

Vase of Flowers
Tulips, jonquils, irises, and peonies in a glass vase on a table

Maurice Alec Poulton

Fishing in New Zealand
A rugged fisherman standing in a rocky stream, preparing to cast. He is smoking a pipe, and wearing a white shirt with rolled-up sleeves, canvas pants, and waders. He has a creel over one shoulder. This is taken from a poster promoting New Zealand for "the world's best sport". (1936)

Maurice Prendergast

Umbrellas in the Rain
A crowd of people carrying gaily colored umbrellas crossing a footbridge over a canal in Venice. The sun is shining through the rain and glints off the puddled pavement, reflecting the ladies' ruffled dresses. A colonnaded building is in the background. (Impressionist, 1899)

Levi Wells Prentice

Apples in a Tin Pail
Orange apples with golden highlights in shiny tin containers

Still Life with Fruit and Pocket Knife
A homey still life of a fancy milk-glass compote filled with ripe fruit, peaches, pears, and red and white grapes. It stands on a table covered with a white damask cloth and a freshly unfolded green fringed napkin with a Greek key design. A jackknife and a saucer stand ready to cut up and serve the fruit. (1890)

Baskets of Raspberries
A still life of two wood berry baskets on a highly polished table. One is upright and filled with red raspberries, the other has spilled onto the table. The baskets and berries are reflected in the tabletop. Behind them is a Delft bowl. (Late 1890s)

Apples and Tree Trunk
A rustic still life of orange-red and yellow apples (some perfect, some blemished) piled at the base of a tree with scaly bark with a couple of leafy twigs atop them. Just next to the tree trunk are a couple of rustic fence rails, with grass visible between the rails. (1891)

Basket of Plums
A still life of a chipboard basket filled with red plums, resting on a green fringed cloth. More plums surround the basket. (1898)

Rene-Xavier Prinet

The Kreuzer Sonata (detail)
A male violinist, overcome by emotion while playing Beethoven's Kreuzer Sonata, puts his arm around his female accompanist and pulls her to her feet for a sudden kiss. Both are dressed in evening clothes, and her golden gown flows around the piano stool. This is a detail of the full painting, used in the Tabu perfume advertisements in the 1970s. (1901)

Howard Pyle

An Attack on a Galleon
A longboat full of pirates plunging through high waves toward a galleon which has gotten separated from the rest of the treasure convoy. Another boatful of cutthroats is already boarding the galleon and overcoming the crew, as indicated by the clouds of gunpowder smoke rising from the ship's deck. Illustration for "The Fate of a Treasure Town". (Golden Age of Illustration, 1905)

Arthur Rackham

Undine: Soon She Was Lost to Sight in the Danube
Undine, a water spirit, gains a soul by loving and marrying a knight. While they voyage on the Danube River, her uncle plagues the couple, and the knight angrily tells Undine to leave him, and she returns to the water from which she came. As she sinks into the water, she reverts to her watery form. (Golden Age of Illustration, 1909)

Sir Henry Raeburn

The Reverend Robert Walker Skating
An 18th century Scottish clergyman solemnly ice-skating on a frozen lake