Category: Eye Candy for Today
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Eye Candy for Today: Franklin Booth Esty Organ advertisement ink drawing
Advertisment for Esty Residence Pipe Organ, pen and ink illustration by Franklin Booth, as it appeared in the November, 1923 issue of Country Life magazine. I don’t know the dimaneions of the original art. Link is to the Organ Historical Society. Interesting to compare this illustration to another of his for the same company. Who…
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Eye Candy for Today: William Merritt Chase pastel interior
Hall at Shinnecock, William Merrit Chase, pastel on canvas, 32 x 41″ (82 x 104 cm); in the collection of the Terra Foundation for American Art. The image on the page linked above is in a small slideshow, larger image here. In 1891 American painter William Merritt Chase moved to the Shinnecock hills on Long…
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Eye Candy for Today: Dante Gabriel Rossetti pencil portrait
Portrait of Mrs. William Morris, née Jane Burden, Dante Gabriel Rossetti; graphite on paper, roughly 13 x 11 inches (33 x 29 cm), in the colleciton of the Morgan Library and Museum, which has both a zoomable and downloadable image on their site. Though nominally the leader of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Dante Gabriel Rossetti has…
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Woodland Interior with Rocky Stream, Thomas Moran
Woodland Interior with Rocky Stream, Thomas Moran, oil on canvas, 36 x 29 inches ( 92 x 74 cm). Link is to the Art Renewal Center, which has a zoomable image. I think their image may be a little too dark; I sourced the image above from a site that sells art prints. Happy belated…
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Eye Candy for Today: Edward Cooke view of Venice
Venice sunset behind the church of Santa Maria della Salute, Edward Willliam Cooke’ oil on paper laid on canvas, roughly 11 x 18 inches ( 28 x 45 cm). Image sourced from this page on Tutt’ art (scroll down), originally from a Sotheby’s auction in 2016. I assume the original is now in a private…
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Eye Candy for Today: Giuseppe Zocchi ink drawing
Villa Mancini in the Vicinity of Signa, Giuseppe Zocchi; pen and black in on paper; roughly 11 x 19 inches (28 x 47 cm). In the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum, which has both zoomable and downloadable versions of the image. Giuseppe Zocch was an 18th century Italian painter and printmaker active in…