Category: Eye Candy for Today

Two Women Fishing, Daniel Ridgway Knight On Wikimedia Commons. Original is in a private collection. Speaking — as I was in this Eye Candy post on Peder Mønsted, about paintings that look smoothly refined from a distance, but are wonderfully painterly in detail — here is a summer scene by Daniel Ridgway Knight. I’m long…

Summer landscape with river floodplain, Peder Mørk Mønsted On Wikimedia Commons. Original is in a private collection. 32×48 inches (81x121cm) I love the way paintings like this, and Mønsted’s in particular, look at first to be smoothly finished and refined, but reveal themselves on closer inspection to be wonderfully painterly.

Under the awning, on the Beach at Zarauz, Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida Original is in the Museo Sorolla. High-res downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. Headed for the beach? Be sure to dress appropriately.

Peach Blossoms—Villers-le-Bel, Childe Hassam In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Met’s collection pages have changed somewhat; the controls to zoom and download are now available directly under the image. A beautiful, direct and deceptively simple painting by one of the foremost of the artists known as American Impressionists.

Still Life with Yellow Roses, Emil Carlsen On Google Art Project. Hi-res downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, which doesn’t appear to have an image online. I wish more of Carlsen’s beautifully painterly still life paintings were available in high resolution. For now, I’ll just be glad…