Category: Eye Candy for Today
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Eye Candy for Today: Hubert von Herkomer’s Miss May Miles
Miss May Miles, Hubert von Herkomer I have not seen the original of this painting, but my experience with comparing art images on the web with their originals — in the case of paintings I have seen in person — gives me the impression that some well-intentioned but misguided individual along the way has increased…
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Eye Candy for Today: Homer’s A Basket of Clams
A Basket of Clams, Winslow Homer, watercolor and gouache, roughly 11 x 10 inches (29 x 25 cm). In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has both zoomable and downloadable versions of the image available. The museum lists the materials of this early watercolor by Homer as simply “watercolor on wove paper”.…
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Eye Candy for the Summer Solstice: Walter Moras, Summer Idyll
Summer Idyll (Sommeridylle), Walter Moras, oil on canvas, roughly 31 x 47 inches (80 x 120 cm) Link is to a page on Wikimedia Commons that offers a large file; I don’t know the location of the original. German landscape painter Walter Moras (active n the late 19th and early 20th centuries) gives us a…
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Eye Candy for Today: Dante Gabriel Rossetti graphite portrait
Portrait of Mrs. William Morris, née Jane Burden, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, graphite on paper, roughly 13 x 11″ (33 x 29 cm). In the Morgan Library and Museum, which has both zoomable and downloadable versions of the image on their site. I’m intrigued, in this drawing, by the Art-Nouveau influenced curves of the outlines, and…
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Eye Candy for Today: Adelaide Palmer still life
Still Life with Oranges, Adelaide Palmer, oil on canvas, 16 x 24″ (40 x 60 cm). Link is to a page on Wikimedia Commons. I don’t know the location of the original. I can’t find very many images or much information on Adelaide Palmer, a painter from New Hampshire who was active in the late…
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Eye Candy for Today: Degas’ Woman on a Sofa
Woman on a Sofa, thined oil paint with touches of pastel over graphite, roughly 19 x 17″ (49 x 43 cm). Link is to image on the Metropolitan Museum of Art website, which has both zoomable and downloadable images. The Met’s page for the piece indicates that it was not a preliminary work for another…