While other late 19th century American painters were flocking to Paris for their training, returning with the influences of the Impressionists burning bright on their palettes, Kentucky-born Frank Duveneck, the son of a German Immigrant, studied at the Royal Academy of Munich, where he learned Read More …
Norwegian symbolist Edvard Munch is another of those artists, like Whistler or even Hokusai, whose oeuvre is condensed to a single image in the minds of most people, in this case his iconic image The Scream. There are actually several versions of The Scream, including Read More …
For the benefit of those in other parts of the world, I’ll point out that today is Veterans Day here in the U.S., a day set aside to honor those who have given or risked their lives, endured hardships and put themselves in the service Read More …
I discovered Luther van Gorder from a striking small painting of his that attracted my attention in the midst of some of the terrific French and American Impressionist work in the current Paths to Impressionism exhibit at the Newark Museum in New Jersey. The piece Read More …
Julian Alden Weir, more commonly called J. Alden Weir, was one of the wonderfully diverse group of artists that get lumped together under the catch-all heading of “American Impressionists”. Weir was a member of The Ten American Painters, a loosely tied group of painters in Read More …
I think of Frédéric Bazille as the “lost” Impressionist, both in the sense that he is often overlooked in discussions of the principle figures in the Impressionist movement; and in the sense that he was lost to the Impressionists, and the world, when he foolishly Read More …