Month: February 2024
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A few paintings from 1888
Most of these were sourced from this page on Wikimedia Commons. I think the late 19th and early 20th centuries produced an extraordinary bounty of wonderful paintings. (Images above, links are to my articles: Charles Edward Perugini, Emil Zschimmer, Olga Boznańska, Peder Mørk Mønsted, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissarro, John Singer Sargent, Vincent van…
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Eye Candy for Today: Whistler etching of Annie Haden
Annie Haden, James McNeill Whistler, drypoint, roughly 19 x 13 inches (35 x 21 cm). This printing of the plate is in the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art, which has both a zoomable and downloadable version of the file. (The museum has a collection of Whistler’s work, presumably in his role as an American…
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Ann Lofquist
Ann Lofquist is a Massachusssetts based painter who paints in oil, both plen air and studio works. She takes as her subjects streams, fields, farms, woods and at times mountains. These are often handled in a cinematic ratio or even more severly horizontal proportions. I find her work particualry appealing for all of the factors…
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Eye Candy for Today: Marie-Francois Firmin-Girard’s market
Autumn Market at Les Halles, Marie-François Firmin-Girard; oil on canvas, roughly 33 x 46″ (83 x 117 cm). Link is to page on Wikimedia Commons, with access to high-res file. Original is in a private collection. 19th century French painter Marie-François Firmin-Girard (alternately, François-Marie Firmin-Girard) worked in a naturalistic, often highly detailed manner that carried…
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Eye Candy for Valentine’s Day: Joseph Noel Paton’s Hesperus
Hesperus, the Evening Star, Sacred to Lovers, Joseph Noel Paton; oil on millboard, roughly 36 x 27 inches (91 x 69 cm). Link it to zoomable image on Art Renewal. There is a larger downloadable file on Arthive. Though not actually a member of the group, Scottish painter Joseph Noel Paton was loosely associated with…
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Josep Tapiró y Baró
Josep Tapiró y Baró was a Catalan painter active in the late 19th and early 20th century. He spent the latter part of his life in Morocco, and his watercolor portraits of some of the people there — dressed in their most colorful traditional garb — were quite popular for a time with European and…