Month: May 2011
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Gabriel Metsu
Just as the attribution of individual artworks changes over time, raising or lowering the fortunes of collectors and museums in the process, the perceived importance of particular artists, and their place in art history, changes as well — depending on who is writing history at the time. Gabriel Metsu was one of the most important…
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Judsons Plein Air Journal
Judsons Art Outfitters is a company that manufactures and sells plein air painting supplies, including a popular line of pochade boxes (see my 2008 post on pochade boxes). Since 2008, they have been maintaining a blog on plein air artists both contemporary and historic, plein air techniques, plein air competitions and other events of interest…
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Carter Goodrich
Illustrator, author and character designer Carter Goodrich has a drawing a rendering style that is so springy, energetic and full of lively linework and color, that it’s just a complete joy to look through his portfolio. Even though his website has fairly extensive galleries of his book illustrations, New Yorker covers, editorial illustrations and character…
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Golden: Dutch and Flemish Masterworks from the Van Otterloo Collection
Extraordinary examples of works form the golden era of Dutch and Flemish painting, drawn from what is one of the finest collections still in private hands, are on display at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts until June 19, 2011. Golden: Dutch and Flemish Masterworks from the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection showcases…
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MagazineArt.org
MagazineArt.org is a trove of magazine covers and advertising illustration from the decades around the turn of the 20th Century. Though a number of names of illustrators from that era have become familiar, many many more are still obscure, rarely featured or highlighted. The illustrations in the MagazineArt.org archives are heavy on the latter, light…