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Eye Candy for Today: Constable’s Salisbury Cathedral

Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop’s Garden, John Constable Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Frick Collection, NY. Constable painted the Salisbury Cathedral a number of times, from several different points of view. This Read More …

Constable’s oil sketches

The brilliant English landscape painter John Constable, along with his contemporary J.M.W. Turner, are sometimes viewed as precursors to French Impressionism, and, by extension, the generations of modern painting that followed. I think it’s even more interesting to consider the line from Constable through the Read More …