Search results for: “samuel palmer”
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Eye Candy for Today: Samuel Palmer ink and watercolor drawing
Oak Tree and Beech, Lullingstone Park, Samuel Palmer Pen and brown ink, with gouache an watercolor on toned paper, roughly 12 x 18 inches (30 x 47 cm); in the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum, NY. Use the “Zoom Image” or “Download Image” links on their page to view larger. I love the…
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Eye Candy for Today: Samuel Palmer watercolor of cypress trees
The Cypresses at the Villa d’Este, Tivoli, Samuel Palmer Original is in the collection of the Yale Center for British Art, which has both a zoomable and downloadable file on their site. You can also find a zoomable version on the Google Art Project and a downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. You can see —…
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Eye Candy for Today: Samuel Palmer’s waterfalls
Pistil Mawddach, North Wales; watercolor and gouache, Yale Center for British Art; The Waterfalls, Pistil Mawddach, North Wales, oil, Tate, Britain; Samuel Palmer Though both are striking, I find 19th century artist Samuel Palmer’s watercolor and gouache study of this dramatic landscape even more compelling than his finished oil. The watercolor is 17×21 inches (44x53cm),…
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Eye Candy for Today: Samuel Palmer graphite drawing
Ancient Trees, Lullingstone Park, Samuel Palmer Graphite on cream wove paper, 10×15″ (26x37cm) In the collection of the Yale Center for British Art. In addition to a zoom, the museum’s page includes a download link from which you can download medium-resolution (1mb) and high-resolution (18mb) versions of the image. Also available on the Google Art…
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Samuel Palmer
Artistic approaches to landscape can be as fascinatingly varied as landscape itself. The variety of style, material, color, medium and technique is amazing. Samuel Palmer’s landscape paintings in oil, watercolor, gouache, ink and sepia wash often have a unique character that feels like fantasy or children’s book illustration, particularly work from a period when he…
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Charles Burchfield
Charles Burchfield is probably one of the more important 20th Century American artists that most people have never encountered. Burchfield’s work went through several phases. His early watercolors can have a simple, almost naive feeling. He went through a time when he settled into rather straightforward representations of landscapes. But his mid-career paintings, after he…