Classic Art Pillows

Bring a museum masterpiece to your sofa. This jacquard-woven throw pillow reproduces Oil Sketch for A Sunday on La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat in soft, durable yarn — a plush, textural piece of art for the couch, bed, or reading chair.

Details

• Jacquard-woven in soft, durable yarn
• Design woven on both front and back
• Insert included — ready to display out of the box
• Dimensions: 17" × 18"
• Origin: Made in USA
• Artwork: Oil Sketch for A Sunday on La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat

Interesting facts about the art

• Seurat pioneered Pointillism, building his images from countless tiny dots of pure color that blend together in the viewer's eye.
• He made dozens of preparatory drawings and oil sketches like this one for his monumental "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte," now a landmark of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Bring a museum masterpiece to your sofa. This jacquard-woven throw pillow reproduces Two Women with Needlework in a Garden in soft, durable yarn — a plush, textural piece of art for the couch, bed, or reading chair.

Details

• Jacquard-woven in soft, durable yarn
• Design woven on both front and back
• Insert included — ready to display out of the box
• Dimensions: 17" × 18"
• Origin: Made in USA
• Artwork: Two Women with Needlework in a Garden

Interesting facts about the art

• Scenes of women at needlework in a garden reflect a long tradition of depicting refined domestic life and feminine accomplishment.
• Embroidery and sewing were prized skills, and the garden setting let the artist frame the figures amid flowers and open air.

Bring a museum masterpiece to your sofa. This jacquard-woven throw pillow reproduces Meguro Drum Bridge Sunset Hill Snow by Utagawa Hiroshige in soft, durable yarn — a plush, textural piece of art for the couch, bed, or reading chair.

Details

• Jacquard-woven in soft, durable yarn
• Design woven on both front and back
• Insert included — ready to display out of the box
• Dimensions: 17" × 18"
• Origin: Made in USA
• Artwork: Meguro Drum Bridge Sunset Hill Snow by Utagawa Hiroshige

Interesting facts about the art

• This serene snow scene from "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo" shows the steeply arched "Drum Bridge" at Meguro under softly falling snow.
• Hiroshige's prints deeply influenced Western art — Vincent van Gogh so admired his work that he painted copies of it.

Bring a museum masterpiece to your sofa. This jacquard-woven throw pillow reproduces Chef de Piece Furnishing Fabric in soft, durable yarn — a plush, textural piece of art for the couch, bed, or reading chair.

Details

• Jacquard-woven in soft, durable yarn
• Design woven on both front and back
• Insert included — ready to display out of the box
• Dimensions: 17" × 18"
• Origin: Made in USA
• Artwork: Chef de Piece Furnishing Fabric

Interesting facts about the art

• Furnishing fabrics are textiles made for the home — for curtains, upholstery, and wall hangings — often woven or printed with elaborate decorative patterns.
• Designs like this showcase the skill of textile makers who translated painterly ornament into repeating woven or printed cloth.

Bring a museum masterpiece to your sofa. This jacquard-woven throw pillow reproduces Chrysanthemums by Pierre-Auguste Renoir in soft, durable yarn — a plush, textural piece of art for the couch, bed, or reading chair.

Details

• Jacquard-woven in soft, durable yarn
• Design woven on both front and back
• Insert included — ready to display out of the box
• Dimensions: 17" × 18"
• Origin: Made in USA
• Artwork: Chrysanthemums by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Interesting facts about the art

• Renoir painted flowers throughout his life and said such still lifes let him try bold color combinations more freely than he could with a portrait sitter.
• A leading Impressionist, he rendered blooms like chrysanthemums with loose, feathery strokes and warm, luminous color.

Bring a museum masterpiece to your sofa. This jacquard-woven throw pillow reproduces Landscape by Jean Baptiste Camille Corot in soft, durable yarn — a plush, textural piece of art for the couch, bed, or reading chair.

Details

• Jacquard-woven in soft, durable yarn
• Design woven on both front and back
• Insert included — ready to display out of the box
• Dimensions: 17" × 18"
• Origin: Made in USA
• Artwork: Landscape by Jean Baptiste Camille Corot

Interesting facts about the art

• Corot was a pivotal figure who linked the classical landscape tradition to the modern painting of the Impressionists.
• Generous and much loved, he was affectionately known as "Papa Corot" and quietly supported many younger and struggling artists.

Bring a museum masterpiece to your sofa. This jacquard-woven throw pillow reproduces The Terrace by Canaletto in soft, durable yarn — a plush, textural piece of art for the couch, bed, or reading chair.

Details

• Jacquard-woven in soft, durable yarn
• Design woven on both front and back
• Insert included — ready to display out of the box
• Dimensions: 17" × 18"
• Origin: Made in USA
• Artwork: The Terrace by Canaletto

Interesting facts about the art

• This is one of Canaletto's etchings, part of the printed "Vedute" that helped spread his reputation across Europe.
• He was the son of a theatrical scene painter, and a feel for stagecraft and perspective runs through his work.

Bring a museum masterpiece to your sofa. This jacquard-woven throw pillow reproduces Basket of Peonies by Katsushika Hokusai in soft, durable yarn — a plush, textural piece of art for the couch, bed, or reading chair.

Details

• Jacquard-woven in soft, durable yarn
• Design woven on both front and back
• Insert included — ready to display out of the box
• Dimensions: 17" × 18"
• Origin: Made in USA
• Artwork: Basket of Peonies by Katsushika Hokusai

Interesting facts about the art

• Beyond his famous landscapes, Hokusai produced striking bird-and-flower prints, a genre known in Japan as kachō-e.
• In East Asian art the peony is celebrated as the "king of flowers," a symbol of wealth, honor, and good fortune.

Bring a museum masterpiece to your sofa. This jacquard-woven throw pillow reproduces Village in Brittany by Charles François Daubigny in soft, durable yarn — a plush, textural piece of art for the couch, bed, or reading chair.

Details

• Jacquard-woven in soft, durable yarn
• Design woven on both front and back
• Insert included — ready to display out of the box
• Dimensions: 17" × 18"
• Origin: Made in USA
• Artwork: Village in Brittany by Charles François Daubigny

Interesting facts about the art

• Brittany's rugged countryside drew many nineteenth-century French landscape painters, Daubigny among them.
• As a Barbizon artist he sought out such regions to paint nature and rural life directly.

Bring a museum masterpiece to your sofa. This jacquard-woven throw pillow reproduces Orpheus and the Animals by Aelbert Cuyp in soft, durable yarn — a plush, textural piece of art for the couch, bed, or reading chair.

Details

• Jacquard-woven in soft, durable yarn
• Design woven on both front and back
• Insert included — ready to display out of the box
• Dimensions: 17" × 18"
• Origin: Made in USA
• Artwork: Orpheus and the Animals by Aelbert Cuyp

Interesting facts about the art

• The scene draws on the Greek myth of Orpheus, whose music was so beautiful that wild animals gathered peacefully to listen.
• It let Cuyp combine his gift for painting many kinds of animals with the golden light for which he is celebrated.

Bring a museum masterpiece to your sofa. This jacquard-woven throw pillow reproduces Valley of Aosta Snowstorm, Avalanche by Joseph Mallord William Turner in soft, durable yarn — a plush, textural piece of art for the couch, bed, or reading chair.

Details

• Jacquard-woven in soft, durable yarn
• Design woven on both front and back
• Insert included — ready to display out of the box
• Dimensions: 17" × 18"
• Origin: Made in USA
• Artwork: Valley of Aosta Snowstorm, Avalanche by Joseph Mallord William Turner

Interesting facts about the art

• Turner's dramatic scene captures an avalanche and storm sweeping through the Val d'Aosta in the Alps, showing nature at its most violent.
• The original oil, exhibited in 1837, hangs in the Art Institute of Chicago.

Bring a museum masterpiece to your sofa. This jacquard-woven throw pillow reproduces Peasant Wedding by Pieter Bruegel the Elder in soft, durable yarn — a plush, textural piece of art for the couch, bed, or reading chair.

Details

• Jacquard-woven in soft, durable yarn
• Design woven on both front and back
• Insert included — ready to display out of the box
• Dimensions: 17" × 18"
• Origin: Made in USA
• Artwork: Peasant Wedding (c. 1567) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Interesting facts about the art

• Bruegel painted ordinary country life with such sympathy and detail that he earned the nickname "Peasant Bruegel."
• The bride sits beneath a paper crown before a green cloth of honor, but which guest is the groom has been debated for centuries.

Bring a museum masterpiece to your sofa. This jacquard-woven throw pillow reproduces Wooded Countryside by Jean Baptiste Camille Corot in soft, durable yarn — a plush, textural piece of art for the couch, bed, or reading chair.

Details

• Jacquard-woven in soft, durable yarn
• Design woven on both front and back
• Insert included — ready to display out of the box
• Dimensions: 17" × 18"
• Origin: Made in USA
• Artwork: Wooded Countryside by Jean Baptiste Camille Corot

Interesting facts about the art

• Wooded groves were among Corot's favorite subjects, painted with the soft, feathery foliage that became his hallmark.
• His intimate landscapes deeply influenced the next generation, including Camille Pissarro and Berthe Morisot.

Bring a museum masterpiece to your sofa. This jacquard-woven throw pillow reproduces Why Are You Angry by Paul Gauguin in soft, durable yarn — a plush, textural piece of art for the couch, bed, or reading chair.

Details

• Jacquard-woven in soft, durable yarn
• Design woven on both front and back
• Insert included — ready to display out of the box
• Dimensions: 17" × 18"
• Origin: Made in USA
• Artwork: Why Are You Angry (1896) by Paul Gauguin

Interesting facts about the art

• Its Tahitian title, "No te aha oe riri," means "Why Are You Angry?", and the scene shows women and hens in a quiet village.
• Painted during Gauguin's second Tahitian stay, it belongs to the Art Institute of Chicago and reflects his idealized vision of unhurried island life.

Bring a museum masterpiece to your sofa. This jacquard-woven throw pillow reproduces Canal Grande da Palazzo Balbi a Rialto by Canaletto in soft, durable yarn — a plush, textural piece of art for the couch, bed, or reading chair.

Details

• Jacquard-woven in soft, durable yarn
• Design woven on both front and back
• Insert included — ready to display out of the box
• Dimensions: 17" × 18"
• Origin: Made in USA
• Artwork: Canal Grande da Palazzo Balbi a Rialto by Canaletto

Interesting facts about the art

• The view sweeps along the great bend of Venice's Grand Canal toward the Rialto, the city's commercial heart.
• Canaletto is thought to have used a camera obscura, an optical device, to help achieve the crisp perspective of his Venetian views.

Bring a museum masterpiece to your sofa. This jacquard-woven throw pillow reproduces Lotus and Waterfowl in soft, durable yarn — a plush, textural piece of art for the couch, bed, or reading chair.

Details

• Jacquard-woven in soft, durable yarn
• Design woven on both front and back
• Insert included — ready to display out of the box
• Dimensions: 17" × 18"
• Origin: Made in USA
• Artwork: Lotus and Waterfowl

Interesting facts about the art

• The lotus, rising pure and unstained from muddy water, is a Buddhist emblem of purity and enlightenment and a favorite of Chinese painters.
• Set with waterfowl on a summer pond, the lotus — whose name puns on "continuous" — turns the scene into a wish for abundance and lasting harmony.