Author: cparker
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Eye Candy for Today: Easter Matins by Ukrainian artist Mykola Pymonenko
Easter Matins, Mykola Pymonenk , oil on canvas, roughly 52 x 76 inches (133 x 193 cm). Link is to the file page on Wikipedia; original is in the Rybinsk State Historical-Architectural and Artistic Preserve Museum in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia. Mykola Pymonenko was a Ukranian artist active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His…
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Eye Candy for Today: Edward Redfield’s The Upper Delaware
The Upper Delaware, Edward Willis Redfield, oil on canvas, roughly 38 x 50 inches (96 x 127 cm). Link is to zoomable image on Google Art Project; high res (33mb) image available on Wikimedia commons; original is in the collection of the James A Michenner Art Museum in Bucks county PA, which unfortunately does not…
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Julia Hill
Julia Hill is an illustrator based in Devon, England who works primarily in pen and ink, using fine-line markers. Her main subject is animals, both domestic and small wild. She also indulges in whimsical fantasy illustrations with animals in human clothing and situations. Her website is basically her store, so her primary online gallery appears…
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Eye Candy for Today: Edmund Leighton’s In Time of Peril
In Time of Peril, Edmund Leighton, oil on canvas, roughly 49 x 66 inches ( 124 x 169 cm). Link is to zoomable image on Google Art Project, downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Aukland Art Gallery. Edmund Blair Leighton, a British artist active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries,…
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A few paintings from the forest of Fontainebleau
Wikimedia Commons, with its wonderful, clunky mishmash of art images — superb high quality high resolution images from the best sources next to low resolution low quality and off color images from questionable sources — has some equally eccentric systems of categorization, which results in the delightful ability to browse through a category like “Paintings…
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Eye Candy for Today: Frits Thaulow Winter Landscape
Winter Landscape, Frits Thaulow, pastel and watercolor on canvas, roughly 22×36″ (55×92 cm). Link is to past auction on Christie’s (large image here), I would assume present location is a private collection. No one painted the surface character of small streams, winter or otherwise, like 19th century Norwegian Painter Frits Thaulow.