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Author: cparker

  • Women Painting Women, RJD Gallery 2017

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    “Women Painting Women: A Voice with a Vision” is a group show at the RJD Gallery in Bridgehampton, NY (Long Island) that opens this Saturday, October 7, and runs to October 30, 2017. The title of the show pretty well describes the theme. There is a nice variety of approaches — within the traditions of…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Constable’s Salisbury Cathedral

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    Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop’s Garden, John Constable Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Frick Collection, NY. Constable painted the Salisbury Cathedral a number of times, from several different points of view. This view is the most familiar, and is deservedly one of…

  • The Frick Collection, NYC

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    I was in New York over the weekend and I took the opportunity to visit the Frick Collection, which I haven’t been to for a few years (it’s often hard for me to get past the Met and the Morgan Library to other museums when I’m in NYC). The Frick is based on the collection…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Heinrich Böhmer Landscape with Deer

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    Landscape with Deer, Heinrich Böhmer Link is to The Greatest of Art blog; there is another copy of the image on The Golden Kite Forum. I don’t know the location of the original. Turn of the century German landscape painter Heinrich Böhmer had a wonderful touch with atmospheric perspective in his woodland interiors. I love…

  • Michael Rothman

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    Michael Rothman is a natural science illustrator who appears to specialize in complex scenes of plants and animals in their natural environment. His subjects include both extant and extinct species. Rothman has a superb ability to render highly detailed compositions — with multiple focal points of individual plants and animals — in a way that…

  • Short Trip, Alexander Perrin

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    Short Trip is a hand-drawn interactive animation by Alexander Perrin. The author calls it an “interactive illustration”, and the drawings are done in pencil. If you would like to be simply and delightfully amused for 5 or 10 minutes, turn your sound on, open your browser to full screen and play with it using the…