Author: cparker
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Eye Candy for Today: Peter Birmann’s The Devil’s Bridge
The Devil’s Bridge in the Schöllenen Gorge on the Way across the St. Gotthard Pass with a Mule Train, Peter Birmann Pen, brush, gray and brown inks. Link is to zoomable version on the Google Art Project; downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Albertina, Vienna. Though the rendering is distinctly european, the…
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Tom Roberts at the National Gallery of Australia
Tom Roberts was an English/Australian painter who was one of the foremost of the Australian painters known as the Heidelberg School, or “Australian Impressionists” — a remarkable group of 19th century painters who we hear too little of here in the U.S. The group, and Roberts in particular, are much better known in Australia, of…
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Illustrators Magazine Issue Eleven
Illustrators is a quarterly magazine published in the UK, that I previously wrote about when they published their first issue in 2013. Calling Illustrators a “magazine” is a bit misleading, as it’s a 96 page perfect bound format that feels more like a large trade paperback. I was delighted to receive a review copy of…
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Eye Candy for Today: Michele Pace del Campidoglio still life
Still Life with Melons, Peaches, Figs, and Grapes; Michele Pace del Campidoglio Link is to zoomable version on Google art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. To me, this wonderful 17th century still life by the Italian painter Michele Pace del Campidoglio has a remarkably contemporary…
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Heinrich Böhmer
Heinrich Böhmer was a German landscape painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. I can find little information about him and only a few sources of images, but those I’ve encountered are wonderful. Böhmer’s muted, subtle forest interiors, streams and pathways put me in mind of Peder Mørk Mønsted, though I don’t…
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Eye Candy For Today: Gilbert Stuart portraits
Portraits of Matilda Stoughton de Jaudenes, and Josef de Jaudenes y Nebot, by Gilbert Stuart Both paintings are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use the download or zoom icons under the images on the museum’s pages. 18th century painter Gilbert Stuart is an artist whose historical stature suffers from “greatest hits” syndrome. His portraits…