Author: cparker
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Martin Lewis
Martin Lewis was an Australian/American printmaker, illustrator and painter active in the first half of the 20th century. He is known primarily for his etchings of wonderfully evocative scenes of urban life, often focusing on the effects of artificial light in nighttime scenes. In much of his work, shadows and areas absent of light play…
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Eye Candy for Today: Rembrandt Peale’s portrait of Rubens Peale
Rubens Peale with a Geranium, Rembrandt Peale, oil on Canvas, roughly 28 x 24 inches (71 x 61 cm); in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, DC. Link is to the NGA page, which has both a zoomable and downloadable version of the image. There is also a zoomable version on the Google…
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J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours
English painter and printmaker J.M.W. Turner, who was active in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, was astonishingly prolific. On his death, he left over 550 oil paintings, 2,000 watercolors and more than 30,000 works on paper. Many of the latter are pages from his sketchbooks, and many of those are in the collection…
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Eye Candy for Today: Emilio Sanchez-Perrier river landscape
On the Banks of the Guadaíra with a boat, Emilio Sánchez-Perrier; oil on panel, roughly 12 x 16 inches (32 x 40 cm); in the collection of the Museo CarmenTyssen Málaga. Click on the image on their page for access to zoomable and downloadable versions. There is also a downloadable file of the same image…
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Algernon Newton
Algernon Cecil Newton was a British painter active in the early to mid 20th century. Newton is known for his cityscapes with canal fronting buildings and landscapes of open hills and isolated trees. Newton’s approach, with stark contrasts of value and texture, evokes stillness and perhaps even a suspension of time, giving his paintings a…
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Eye Candy for Today: Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses, John William Waterhouse
Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses, John William Waterhouse, oil on canvas, roughly 70 x 36 inches ( 175 x 92 cm); with preliminary sketch, both images on Wikimedia Commons; the original painting is in Gallery Oldham, but their website doesn’t offer details about the painting. The sketch is in the Victoria and Albert Museum.…