Category: Eye Candy for Today
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Eye Candy for Today: Daniel Ridgway Knight’s An Idle Moment
An Idle Moment, Daniel Ridgway Knight, oil on canvas, roughly 37 x 47 inches (95 x 120 cm); link is to page for high res file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the High Museum of Art. American artist Daniel Ridgway Knight, who was active in the late 19th end early 20th centuries, spent much…
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Eye Candy for Today: Solomon J. Solomon’s St George
St George, Solomon J. Solomon; oil on canvas, roughly 84 x 42 inches (213 x 106 cm); in the collection of the Royal Academy of Arts The legend of Saint George and the Dragon, in which the heroic knight rescues a princess who had been offered up as tribute to a dragon, has a long…
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Eye Candy for Today: Carl Thomsen’s Arranging Daffodils
Arranging Daffodils, Carl Thomsen; oil on canvas, roughly 16 x 12 inches (41 x 32 cm); link is to image file page on Wikimedia Commons, zoomable image on Bonham’s. (My assumption from the auction listing is that the painting is currently in a private collection.) This 1894 painting by Danish artist Carl Thomsen is a…
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Eye Candy for Today: John Sell Cotman graphite and wash drawing
East End of Saint Jacques at Dieppe, Normandy; John Sell Cotman; graphite and brown wash; roughly 12 x 9 inches (29 x 22 cm). LInk is to zoomable version on Google Art Project, downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Yale Center for British Art. English painter, printmaker and illustrator John Sell Cotman,…
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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…