Category: Gallery and Museum Art

Adair Payne is a California painter whose landscapes are richly textural, often deeply atmospheric and highly evocative of place, season and time of day. Payne uses a restrained palette, emphasizing the value relationships and textural elements in his compositions. Though many of his subjects are identifiably west coast landscapes, many resonate for me with creeks…

Though he works in oil as well, Ron Monsma creates his figures and still life primarily in pastel. He has a refined approach, with subtle attention to edges and values and a Baroque sensibility for composition and light. I particularly enjoy those pieces in which he appears to revel in the textural characteristics of his…

Julian Alden Weir was an American painter and printmaker active in the later 19th and early 20th centuries. He was one of the the painters loosely known as “American Impressionists”, and more relevantly, was a member of “The Ten” — a group of influential painters in Boston that included Frank W. Benson, Thomas Wilmer Dewing,…

Georg Eduard Otto Saal was a 19th century German landscape painter known in particular for his sweeping views of Norwegian mountains and fjords, portrayed with visceral attention to detail and dramatic lighting. Later in his career, he visited the Forest of Fontainebleau and was introduced to the work of the Barbizon Painters, resulting in change…