Category: Gallery and Museum Art

Thomas Fearnley was a 19th century Norwegian painter who specialized in landscapes. He painted many of his works in Italy, particularly along the beautiful Amalfi coast in places like Sorrento and Capri. He was also an accomplished printmaker and produced very appealing lithographs and etchings of landscape scenes. His subjects ranged from grand and dramatic…

Josh Keyes is an Oregon based painter whose themes include graffiti on objects where it would not normally appear, animals intersecting with civilization in thought provoking ways, and scenes in which nature is reclaiming what appears to be a recently post-human world. The latter theme is sometimes expressed in compositions in which the elements have…

As I mentioned in my post on Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, one of the tragedies of the level of misogyny in the history of art — in addition to the personal tragedies of women whose passion for creating art was denied by societal “norms” — is the unknowable number of possibly brilliant women artists…