Month: July 2015
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Henry John Boddington
Victorian painter Henry John Williams took his wife’s last name as Henry John Boddington to distinguish himself from the prolific Williams family of painters from which he came. Boddington, whose only formal instruction was from his father, painter Edward Williams, developed a style rich with the textures of landscape, often revealed in dramatic almost theatrical…
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Eye Candy for Today: Gerrit van Honthorst’s The Concert
The Concert, Gerrit van Honthorst In the National Gallery of Art, DC; there is also a downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. Like many of his northern European contemporaries, 17th century Dutch painter Gerrit van Honthorst was taken with the dramatic chiaroscuro and dynamic compositions of Caravaggio. Honrhorst, however, brought his figures into full light and…
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Tom Dickson
Originally from Hamilton, Ontario, Tom Dickson lived and worked for a time in Nova Scotia, and then in British Columbia. On summer trips to Mexico, he discovered a rich source of subject matter and inspirstional culture, and he eventually moved to San Miguel de Allende, where he and his wife, painter Donna Dickson, set up…
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Ingrid Kallick
The selection of work on illustrator Ingrid Kallick’s website is not extensive, which is unfortunate, as the delightful nature of her illustrations leaves you wanting more. Imaginatively composed, nicely textural, often intricately rendered, her work is well suited to the flights of imagination integral to her fantasy subjects. Kallick combines traditional and digital media, starting…
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Eye Candy for Today; Harry Fenn ink drawing
Present Aspect of Gaines’s Mill, Looking East; Harry Fenn Link is to a zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons; original is in Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Clear observation and crisp, textural rendering give Fenn’s drawing of a brick-walled mill and nearby wooden houses a tactile sense of presence and…
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George Sotter
George William Sotter was one of the group of painters working in and around New Hope, Pennsylvania in the early 20th century, who are referred to as the Pennsylvania Impressionists. Along with Daniel Garber and Edward Redfield, Sotter is one of my favorites of the group. Sotter painted rural scenes in Bucks County PA, and…