Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Eye Candy for Today: Pissarro’s Boulevard Montmartre, Spring

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    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…

  • John Lavery

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    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…

  • Ernst Ferdinand Oehme

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    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…

  • Eye Candy for Today: CC Curran’s Lady with a Bouquet

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    Lady with a Bouquet, (Snowballs), Charles Courtney Curran Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Birmingham Museum of Art (AL) which also has a zoomable version. Oil on panel, roughly 12 x 8 in (31 x 22 cm). American painter Charles Courtney Curran was…

  • Yaroslav Zayablov

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    Yaroslav Zayablov is a contemporary Russian landscape painter whose paintings evoke the feeling of his native countryside in a variety of seasons, weather and atmosphere. His website has an English translated version (to which I have linked). There are three galleries: Landscape, Graphics (drawings) and Sketches. When looking through the his online galleries, once you…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Jan Brueghel the Elder River Landscape

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    River Landscape, Jan Brueghel the Elder In the collection of the National Gallery of Art, DC, which has both zoomable and downloadable versions on their site (larger of the two downloadable versions requires a free account). There is also a zoomable version on Google Art Project and a downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons. This work…