Month: April 2021
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Eye Candy for Today: Carl Thomsen’s Arranging Daffodils
Arranging Daffodils, Carl Thomsen; oil on canvas, roughly 16 x 12 inches (41 x 32 cm); link is to image file page on Wikimedia Commons, zoomable image on Bonham’s. (My assumption from the auction listing is that the painting is currently in a private collection.) This 1894 painting by Danish artist Carl Thomsen is a…
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Bernard Völlmy
Bernard Völlmy is a Swiss painter, now based in France, who works primarily in watercolor, but also in monochromatic and color watercolors combined with graphite. His watercolor themes often include subjects with water — creeks and streams, small runs or even reflective puddles. These are approached with an eye to texture and interesting value contrasts.…
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Eye Candy for Today: John Sell Cotman graphite and wash drawing
East End of Saint Jacques at Dieppe, Normandy; John Sell Cotman; graphite and brown wash; roughly 12 x 9 inches (29 x 22 cm). LInk is to zoomable version on Google Art Project, downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Yale Center for British Art. English painter, printmaker and illustrator John Sell Cotman,…
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Jennifer McChristian (update)
Originally from Montreal and now based in California, Jennifer McChristian is a painter I first featured back in 2007. Working primarily in oil, and secondarily in gouache and watercolor, McChristian paints both plein air and in the studio. While she sometimes paints the natural landscape, her preference is to find subjects in the built environment,…
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Eye Candy for Today: M.C. Escher lithograph: Reptiles
Reptiles, Maurits Cornelis Escher, lithograph, roughly 13 x 15 inches (33 × 38 cm) Link is to an image sourced from this article on the website of WBUR radio, reviewing a 2018 Escher exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Here, we find the ingenious Dutch printmaker M.C. Escher indulging in a number of…
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Alexander Rothaug
Alexander Rothaug was an Austrian painter and illustrator active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. I assume he might be categorized as a Symbolist, which in itself is a loose classification as art styles go. Rothaug seems particularly inspired by dramatic scenes from myths and legends, often populated with stylized, exaggeratedly muscular figures…