Month: November 2023
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Eye Candy for Today: Louise Jopling domestic scene
Blue and White, Louise Jopling, oil on canvas, roughly 49 x 34 inches (123 x 86 cm). Link is to Wikimedia Commons; the page indicates the original is in the Liverpool Museums, but I can’t find mention of it on their site. Louise Jopling was a Victorian era painter and apparently well known, though I…
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Edgar Payne
Edgar Alwin Payne was an American painter primarily active in the early 20th century and known best for his paintings of the mountains, canyons, bluffs and buttes of the American west. He also painted other subjects. I particularly enjoy his compositions involving fishing and sailing boats, painted both in the Boston area and in France.…
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Eye Candy for Today: Leonardo metalpoint drawing
Study of a woman’s hands, Leonardo da Vinci; black chalk and metalpoint on paper, roughly 8 x 6 inches (21 x 15 cm). Original is in the Royal Collection Trust in the UK; their website has both zoomable and downloadable versions of the image. There is also a version on Wikimedia Commons. The drawing is…