Eye Candy for Today: Thaulow’s Water Mill

Water Mill, Frits Thaulow
I’m happy to say that after several months of being relegated to the stacks, one of my favorite paintings is back on display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art: Water Mill by Frits Thaulow.

I don’t think anyone handles the reflections, translucency and surface motion of small streams better than Thaulow.

Unfortunately, the museum’s page for the painting has removed the former zoomable image, and their current reproduction is too dark.

I found a better and larger reproduction here, from this blog. (Here is my own photo.)

I’ve written specifically about Water Mill before, as well as writing about Frits Thaulow (in a post with lots of links to Thaulow images), and here.

 
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10 Replies to “Eye Candy for Today: Thaulow’s Water Mill”

  1. Thanks Charley for posting this painting! It’s been eight years since I have been to the Philadelphia Museum of art, and among all the great works strangely this painting is one of the few that stayed with me even though I did not remember the name of the artist. I was so impressed by the wonderful translucent green of the water which I have never seen painted like this before, I remember looking at this for a long time, such a soothing and true-to-nature painting it is! I am happy to see it again on your blog.

  2. I had the pleasure of viewing this painting last summer and can’t get it out of my mind. I too was taken by the way the water looked so real. It is truly a masterpiece. I would love a reproduction. I found one for $350 but just don’t have those funds now.

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