Author: cparker
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Reciprocal Museum Membership Programs
This is a time of year when many people join or renew art museum memberships, or receive them as gifts. Most art museums offer membership at various levels, each of which comes with perks to encourage the purchase of more expensive membership levels. What’s not always obvious is that some of those levels often include…
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Eye Candy for Today: William Henry Hunt watercolor and gouache still life
Apple, Grapes and a Cob-Nut; William Henry Hunt Watercolor and gouache over graphite; roughly 5 x 7 inches (13 x 19 cm); in the collection of the Yale Center for British Art, which has both a zoomable and downloadable version of the image on their site. Early 19th century English artist William Henry Hunt painted…
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Tianhua Xu
Tianhua Xu is a concept artist, art director and production designer based in Beijing, China. His digital painting approach is nicely atmospheric and carries a flavor of painterly traditional media. That, and a nicely honed sense of visual drama give his visions of dragons, spirits, warriors and monsters a vibrant presence.
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Eye Candy for Today: Sargent travel watercolor
Simplon Pass: The Tease, John Singer Sargent Link is to zoomable image on Google Art Project; there is a downloadable high-res file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Watercolor over graphite sketch, with gouache and the use of wax resist; roughly 16 x 21 inches (40 x 53 cm).…
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Ivan Endogurov
Ivan Endogurov was a Russian painter active in the late 19th century. He initially entered the study of law at St Petersburgh University, but after taking private lessons in painting he changed to that pursuit full time, concentrating on landscape. I couldn’t find much in the way of available image resources for Endogurov, but there…
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Eye Candy for today: Corot Fontainebleau landscape
Forest of Fontainebleau, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Link is to zoomable image on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; Original is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Corot entered this painting in the Paris Salon of 1846, and it became the first officially recognized pure landscape in French painting — without historical or mythological subject…