Author: cparker
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Eye Candy for Today: Godward’s Under the Blossom…
Under the Blossom that Hangs on the Bough, John Willian Godward, oil on canvas, 24 x 32 in. (61 x 81 cm). Link is to file page on Wikimedia Commons, original is in a private collection. Neo-Classical Victorian painter John William Godward was known for his portrayals of beautifully dressed women lounging amid idyllic classical…
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Horace Knowles
Horace J Knowles was a British writer and illustrator active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his illustrations for fairland and fairy tales, as well as biblical illustrations and pieces to accompany poetry. He worked in black and white, in a style that shows the influence of Art Nouveau as well…
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Eye Candy for the Summer Solstice: Waterfall in Summer Mountains
Waterfall in Summer Mountains, Nakabayashi Chikuto, hanging scroll, ink and color on silk, 50 x 17 inches (126 x 43 cm), in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 19th century (Edo period) Japanese artist Nakabayashi Chikuto paints a beautifully subtle and evocative mountain scene with a strong, eye-leading composition. My eye goes to…
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Eye candy for today: Johannes Verspronk portrait
Andries Stilte as a Standard Bearer, Johannes Cornelisz Verspronck, oil on canvas, 41 x 31 in. (104 x 79 cm), in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, DC, which has both a zoomable and downloadable version of the image. I hadn’t heard of 17th century Dutch painter Johannes Verspronk until I came across…
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Lynn Boggess (update)
I first wrote about West Virginia painter Lynn Boggess back in 2014. As an introduction, I will quote myself from that post: —In writing about painters who work with thick impasto (such as Antonio Mancini), I have sometimes used “troweled on” as a metaphor to describe the heavy application of paint. In the case of…
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Eye Candy for Today: Jasper Cropsey’s Autumn – On the Hudson River
Autumn – On the Hudson River, Jasper Francis Cropsey, oil on canvas, 60 x 108 in. (152 x 275 cm), in the collection of the National Gallery of Aart, DC, which has both a zoomable image and a downloadable high res file available. Cropsey was a 19th century American architecht and first generation Hudson River…