Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Edward Wilkins Waite
English landscape painter Edward Wilkins Waite was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Waite focused on landscapes, most of which were painted in his and around Surrey, where he was born. His landscapes are often painted in gentle overcast light, using an appealing muted palette and with an emphasis on texture. His…
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Eye Candy for Today: William Strutt pencil drawing
Young Woman Holding a Book, William Strutt Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Art Gallery of South Australia, which also has an larger version on their site, though not as large as the other two. Pencil and watercolor on paper. The sheet is…
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Marcel Rieder
In his repeated subjects, 19th century French painter Marcel Rieder became fascinated with low levels of light, both in scenes of dusk and sunset, and in intimate outdoor and interior scenes lit by lamps. Like the “painters of Paris”, Luigi Loir, Eugéne Galien Laloue, Edward Léon Cortès and Antoine Blanchard — who found harmony in…
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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…