Classic Art Pillows

Bring a museum masterpiece to your sofa. This jacquard-woven throw pillow reproduces Birds Flowers and Insects 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: Birds Flowers and Insects

Interesting facts about the art

• Bird-and-flower painting is one of the major genres of East Asian art, celebrating the small wonders of the natural world.
• Adding insects to flowers and birds reflects the close observation of nature that painters practiced, capturing tiny creatures with great care.

Bring a museum masterpiece to your sofa. This jacquard-woven throw pillow reproduces Landscape with Smokestacks by Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas 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 with Smokestacks (c. 1890) by Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas

Interesting facts about the art

• Made around 1890, it is one of a group of experimental landscapes Degas created as monotypes heightened with pastel.
• The work later became famous as the subject of a landmark Nazi-looted-art restitution case, after which it entered the Art Institute of Chicago.

Bring a museum masterpiece to your sofa. This jacquard-woven throw pillow reproduces The Five Virtues Rooster 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 Five Virtues Rooster

Interesting facts about the art

• Chinese tradition credits the rooster with five virtues - civility, martial spirit, courage, benevolence, and trustworthiness - read from its crown, spurs, fighting spirit, sharing of food, and dawn crow.
• This made the rooster an auspicious painting subject, standing for the qualities of an ideal gentleman.

Bring a museum masterpiece to your sofa. This jacquard-woven throw pillow reproduces Auriculas by R. J. Thornton 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: Auriculas by R. J. Thornton

Interesting facts about the art

• The image comes from Robert John Thornton's lavish botanical work "The Temple of Flora," one of the most ambitious flower books ever produced.
• Auriculas are a prized alpine primula that devoted growers once displayed in special "auricula theaters" to show off their choicest blooms.

Bring a museum masterpiece to your sofa. This jacquard-woven throw pillow reproduces North Woods Club, Adirondacks by Winslow Homer 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: North Woods Club, Adirondacks by Winslow Homer

Interesting facts about the art

• The North Woods Club in the Adirondacks was Homer's favorite wilderness retreat, where he hunted, fished, and painted for decades.
• Its forests, lakes, and guides inspired some of his finest watercolors.

Bring a museum masterpiece to your sofa. This jacquard-woven throw pillow reproduces Male Nude by Paul Cezanne 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: Male Nude by Paul Cezanne

Interesting facts about the art

• Studies of the male nude date largely from Cézanne's student years, when he drew from the model in the life class.
• Even in these academic exercises he searched for the underlying structure of the body, foreshadowing his later architectural approach to form.

Bring a museum masterpiece to your sofa. This jacquard-woven throw pillow reproduces Plum Trees and Pheasants 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: Plum Trees and Pheasants Furnishing Fabric

Interesting facts about the art

• Flowering plum with pheasants is a classic East Asian pairing, joining the first blossom of the year with a bird admired for its splendid plumage.
• Woven as furnishing fabric, such auspicious nature motifs brought the symbolism of renewal and beauty into the decoration of the home.

Bring a museum masterpiece to your sofa. This jacquard-woven throw pillow reproduces Capriccio with a Squall on the Lagoon by Francesco Guardi 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: Capriccio with a Squall on the Lagoon by Francesco Guardi

Interesting facts about the art

• A squall is a sudden burst of stormy wind, and Guardi caught such fleeting weather over the Venetian lagoon with quick, atmospheric strokes.
• This is a capriccio — an invented scene rather than a real place — a genre in which Guardi blended imagination with keen observation of light and water.

Bring a museum masterpiece to your sofa. This jacquard-woven throw pillow reproduces Bamboo in Four Seasons Summer 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: Bamboo in Four Seasons Summer

Interesting facts about the art

• Bamboo is one of the "Four Gentlemen" of classical ink painting, prized as a symbol of resilience and upright character.
• Painting bamboo across the four seasons let artists show the plant's changing moods, from fresh summer growth to snow-laden winter stalks.

Bring a museum masterpiece to your sofa. This jacquard-woven throw pillow reproduces Young Bacchus and Companions by Anthony van Dyck 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: Young Bacchus and Companions by Anthony van Dyck

Interesting facts about the art

• The subject is Bacchus, the Roman god of wine, a mythological theme van Dyck absorbed partly from his master Rubens.
• Before becoming England's great court portraitist, van Dyck trained in Antwerp and worked in Rubens's busy studio.

Bring a museum masterpiece to your sofa. This jacquard-woven throw pillow reproduces Seated Male Nude with Extended Leg by John Singer Sargent 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: Seated Male Nude with Extended Leg by John Singer Sargent

Interesting facts about the art

• A virtuoso draftsman, Sargent could capture a model's pose and musculature with a few confident strokes of charcoal or chalk.
• Studies like this fed his large decorative murals, including the celebrated cycle he painted over many years for the Boston Public Library.

Bring a museum masterpiece to your sofa. This jacquard-woven throw pillow reproduces Landscape with a Cow Drinking by Rembrandt van Rijn 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 with a Cow Drinking by Rembrandt van Rijn

Interesting facts about the art

• This is one of Rembrandt's quiet landscape etchings, observing the rural Dutch countryside with a few deft lines.
• In prints like this, Rembrandt worked from the world around Amsterdam, elevating humble farmland and grazing cattle into art.

Bring a museum masterpiece to your sofa. This jacquard-woven throw pillow reproduces The Heritage of the Wagon 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: The Heritage of the Wagon by Charles François Daubigny

Interesting facts about the art

• Daubigny was a central figure of the Barbizon school, devoted to painting the rural French landscape from nature.
• His fresh, direct approach to outdoor scenes helped prepare the way for Impressionism.

Bring a museum masterpiece to your sofa. This jacquard-woven throw pillow reproduces Punchinellos Cooking and Tasting Gnocchi by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo 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: Punchinellos Cooking and Tasting Gnocchi by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Interesting facts about the art

• Punchinello (Pulcinella) is the hook-nosed, pot-bellied clown of the Venetian commedia dell'arte, shown here fussing over a pot of gnocchi.
• The Tiepolo family delighted in Punchinello scenes, turning the comic figure into a gently satirical everyman.

Bring a museum masterpiece to your sofa. This jacquard-woven throw pillow reproduces She Thinks of the Ghost 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: She Thinks of the Ghost by Paul Gauguin

Interesting facts about the art

• The title translates Gauguin's Tahitian phrase Manao tupapau, which he said could mean either that a young woman thinks of the spirit of the dead or that the spirit thinks of her.
• In Tahitian belief the tupapau were spirits of the dead, and the subject shows a girl lying uneasy on her bed as a dark figure watches nearby.

Bring a museum masterpiece to your sofa. This jacquard-woven throw pillow reproduces Mestre 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: Mestre by Canaletto

Interesting facts about the art

• Mestre, on the mainland at the edge of the Venetian lagoon, was the gateway travelers passed through on their way to and from Venice.
• The scene is one of Canaletto's etchings, a medium in which he worked with remarkable delicacy of line.