Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Pieter Claesz still life
Still Life, Pieter Claesz In the collection of the Timken Museum of Art (larger version here). Usually, 17th century Dutch still life paintings like this one are named by modern curators with descriptive titles that include some of the objects pictured. The Timkin simply calls this one “Still Life”, but they mention in their description…
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Eye Candy for Today: Sargent’s portrait of Mrs. Hammersly
Mrs. Hugh Hammersley, John Singer Sargent In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It’s only paint, brushes and canvas, folks. (Sigh.)
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James Gurney’s Living Sketchbook app
One of the most fascinating ways to see into the mind of an artist is to have the opportunity to look through their sketchbooks. This is not often possible; sketchbooks are frequently personal, full of unfinished thoughts and experiments and seldom volunteered for display by the artists themselves. When the opportunity does arise, it’s a…
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Eye Candy for Today: Pissarro’s Boulevard Montmartre, Spring
Boulevard Montmartre, Spring; Camille Pissarro Link is to a zoomable version on the Google Art Project; there is a downloadablve version on Wikimedia Commons. Google’s listing indicates the original is in the collection of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; but I can’t find it in their online database. This is one of the remarkable series of…
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John Lavery
John Lavery was an Irish painter who spent a good deal of his career living and working in London. He is known primarily for his portraits and his paintings of what he observed in England during the First World War, but I find his landscapes most appealing, especially those depicting water. Lavery was acquainted with…
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Ernst Ferdinand Oehme
Ernst Ferdinand Oehme was a 19th century German Romantic landscape painter noted for his darkly atmospheric landscapes and paintings of architectural subjects. Oehme studied with the highly regarded Danish painter Johan Christian Dahl, and through him met Caspar David Friedrich. The influence of both painters is evident in Oehme’s initial choices of subject matter and…