Author: cparker
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Alfred de Breanski
Alfred de Breanski was a British painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He painted a variety of landscape subjects, but his clear preference was for mountains. You will sometimes see him listed as Alfred de Breanski Sr., because his son was also a painter.
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Eye Candy for Today: Vermeer’s Geographer
The Geographer, Johannes Vermeer, oil on canvas, roughly 18×20 inches(45 x 51 cm). Link is to zoomable version on the Google Art Project, downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Staedel Museum, Germany. Twenty six years ago this month, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC debuted a most remarkable exhibition of…
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Drawings of Andrew Fisher Brunner
Andrew Fisher Brunner was an American artist active in the late 19th century. He is noted for his landcape watercolors and for his drawings, particularly those in pen and ink. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a nice collection of his drawings, visible online in reasonably large images. Many of these are of Venice. He…
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Eye Candy for Today: Levitan’s Birch Grove
Birch Grove, by Isaac Levitan, oil on paper mounted to canvas, roughly 12 x 20 inches (30 x 50 cm). Link is to image page on WikiArt (click “View all Sizes” for access to large image); original is in the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. This is a beautiful and widely recognized landscape painting by the brilliant…
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Edmund Dulac (revisited)
Edmund Dulac was a French illustrator who moved to England relatively early in his career and eventually became a naturalized British citizen. He worked in the latter part of the “Golden Age” of illustration and beyond. He was renowned in particular his illustrations for several series of books based on the Arabian Nights. I wrote…
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Eye Candy for Today: Jules Bastien-Lepage genre painting
Le Père Jacques (The Wood Gatherer), Jules Bastien-Lepage, oil on canvas, roughly 77 x 71 inches (197 x 182 cm). Original is in the Milwaukee Art Museum. One of the things that has always fascinated me about 19th century French painter Jules Bastien-Lepage is his use of value relationships. Notice how vibrantly the young girl,…