Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Waterhouse’s other Lady of Shalott
‘I am half sick of shadows,’ said The Lady of Shalott, oil on canvas, roughly 40 x 29 inches (100 x 74 cm). Link is to image on Britannica.com. The original is in the Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada. John William Waterhouse, a late 19th century English painter often associated with the Pre-Raphaelites who preceded…
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Holman Hunt’s The Lady of Shalott
The Lady of Shalott, William Holman Hunt, oil on canvas, roughly 74 x 58 inches ( 188 x 146 cm), in the collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum, in Hartford, CT. Link is to image file page on Wikipedia. In Alfred Tennyson’s early 19th century poem of the same name, in a reference to the Arthurian…
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Eye Candy for Today: Francis Hopkinson Smith’s In the Woods
In the Woods, Francis Hopkinson Smith, watercolor and gouache on board, roughly 26 x 16″ ( 67 x 41 cm); in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum. Smith was an American painter, author and engineer, whose accomplishments included the design and engineering for the base of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. In…
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Ferdinand Keller
When I first came across the work of German painter Fredinand Keller, who was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, I was immediately struck by the obvious influence of Swiss Symbolist Arnold Böcklin. Oddly, in what scant biographical information I can find on Keller, there is rarely mention of his overt admiration…
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Eye Candy for Today: Stanistaw Mastowski watercolor landscape
Marsh Landscape by Stanisław Mastowski, watercolor, roughly 6 x 18″ (15 x 46 cm), in the collection of the National Museum in Cracow, Poland. The link is to the image page on Wikimedia Commons, from which you can access the large version of the image. I recommend it; the crops I’ve shown here don’t give…
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Summer at the beach with Joaquin Sorolla
Spanish Painter Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, who was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, loved to paint at the beach in his native city, Valencia. At times, he would set up a kind of wind and sun break with sheets strung between poles arranged as walls on three sides of his easel.…