Author: cparker
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Eye Candy for Today: Whistler’s Nocturne: Blue and Silver – Chelsea
Nocturne: Blue and Silver – Chelsea, James Abbott McNeill Whistler; oil on wood, roughly 20 x 24″ (61 x 50cm) Link above is to Zoomable image on Google Art Project; original is in the Tate, London; downloadable large file on Wikimedia Commons. Whistler often titled his pieces in musical terms; many of his works are…
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Plein air event in Lehigh Valley offers free Vasari oil paint
From now until October 15, 2022, there is a plein air painting event in Easton, PA co-sponsored by the Karl Stirner Arts Trail and Vasari Classic Artist’s Oil Colors, makers of what is arguably the finest handcrafted oil paint available. This is a fledgling event, so participants have an opportunity to get in on something…
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Eye Candy for Today: Mucha’s Autumn
Autumn, Alphonse Mucha; color lithograph, roughly 40 x 21 inches (103 x 54cm) Image sourced from here; direct link here; info here. This is one of the panels from Mucha’s first and perhaps most successful series of decorative panels, The Seasons, which he created in 1896. This and Summer are my favorites from the series.…
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Charles Edward Hallé
Charles Edward Hallé was an English painter who studied in both England and France. He painted portraits, genre scenes and history scenes and was influenced by Neo-Classicism, Venetian art and the British Pre-Raphaelites. I haven’t found a great deal of work by Hallé on the web, but there is enough to be of interest.
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Mildred Anne Butler
Though she frequently traveled to England and the continent — and studied in Paris — Irish watercolorist Mildred Anne Butler primarily painted en plein air in the area around her home in Kilmurry. Butler was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and was a member of the Royal Academy and the Royal…
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Eye Candy for today: Maximilian Liebenwein illustration
Walk of Mary across the mountains, Maximilian Liebenwein. Maximilian Liebenwein was an Austrian/German illustrator active during the “Golden Age” of illustration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. I’m unsure what the medium is here, but it looks like watercolor and gouache to me. I sourced the image from here, larger version here. For…