Category: Eye Candy for Today
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Eye Candy for Today: M.C. Escher lithograph: Reptiles
Reptiles, Maurits Cornelis Escher, lithograph, roughly 13 x 15 inches (33 × 38 cm) Link is to an image sourced from this article on the website of WBUR radio, reviewing a 2018 Escher exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Here, we find the ingenious Dutch printmaker M.C. Escher indulging in a number of…
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Eye Candy for Today: Giovanni Boldini pastel portrait
Signorina Concha de Ossa, Giovanni Boldini; pastel on prepared canvas, roughly 87 x 47 inches (221 x 120 cm). LInk is to Wikimedia Commons, which sourced the image from a past sale of the painting from Christie’s. I don’t know the location of the original, likely a private collection. Italian painter Giovanni Boldini, who was…
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Eye Candy for Today: Johan Christian Dahl landscape
View From Stalheim, Johan Christian Dahl, oil on canvas, 75 x 97 inches (190 x 246 cm). Link is to zoomable image on Google Art Project; (very) high resolution file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the National Museum of Art and Design, Oslo. 19th century Norwegian painter Johan Christian Dahl’s large scale view of…
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Eye Candy for Today: Tarbell’s Preparing for the Matinee
Preparing for the Matinee, Edmund Charles Tarbell; oil on canvas, roughly 45 x 35″ (114 x 89 cm); link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable (very) high resolution file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Indianapolis Museum of Art, which also has zoomable and downloadable versions. Like other members of the…
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Eye Candy for Today: Alois Arnegger spring landscape
Primavera, Alois Arnegger I don’t know about you, but I could use a bit of Spring right about now, even if it’s only in the form of a painting. Austrian painter Alois Arnegger, who was active in the early 19th century, invites us to walk into an idyllic spring day, rich with textural brushwork and…
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Eye Candy for Today Mrs Smith watercolor of plums and caterpillars
Branch with a cluster of ripe plums and caterpillars, Mrs. Smith; watercolor, roughly 10 x 10 inches (25 x 25 cm). Link is to the image page on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. The image is credited to “Mrs. Smith”, based on a pencil signature at the lower right…