Month: February 2021
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Eye Candy for Today: Alois Arnegger spring landscape
Primavera, Alois Arnegger I don’t know about you, but I could use a bit of Spring right about now, even if it’s only in the form of a painting. Austrian painter Alois Arnegger, who was active in the early 19th century, invites us to walk into an idyllic spring day, rich with textural brushwork and…
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Hopper in Paris
When Edward Hopper was in his early twenties, he lived in Paris for a year, and later returned on several occasions. He painted and sketched while he was there, as well as being exposed to art and artists he might not have encountered otherwise, laying the groundwork for his developing signature style. “Hopper in Paris”…
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Eya Candy for Today: Stillman’s Love’s Messenger
Love’s Messenger, Marie Spartali Stillman, watercolor, tempera and gold paint on paper, 32 x 26 inches (116 x 100 cm). I’ve stood in front of this beautiful painting in the Delaware Art Museum more times than I can count, marveling not only at the beautiful composition and subtle color, but at the remarkable painting technique…
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Charles Dana Gibson
Charles Dana Gibson was one of America’s great “Golden Age” illustrators, and one of its finest proponents of pen and ink illustration. He is particularly known for his drawings of the “Gibson Girl”, an idealized example of what at the time was becoming known as the “New Woman”. The Gibson Girl became a symbol of…
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Eye Candy for Today: Daniel Ridgway Knight figure in landscape
Unfortunately, I can’t find the title, size or other information on this beautiful paining by turn of the 20th century American artist Daniel Ridgway Knight. [Addendum: artist James DeBoer has been kind enough to provide that information: the title is Partant pour le Travail (Leaving for Work), the painting is 32 x26″ (81 x 66…
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Hiroshi Yoshida exhibit in Tokyo
Hiroshi Yoshida the wonderful Japanese printmaker — active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries — was trained in western art styles and painting and eventually combined those aesthetics with the traditions of Japanese art to create beautiful woodblock paints in the shin hanga style. A new exhibition at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum…