Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Eye Candy for Today: Samuel Palmer watercolor of cypress trees

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    The Cypresses at the Villa d’Este, Tivoli, Samuel Palmer Original is in the collection of the Yale Center for British Art, which has both a zoomable and downloadable file on their site. You can also find a zoomable version on the Google Art Project and a downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. You can see —…

  • Walter Stanford

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    Walter Stanford is a painter and illustrator based in North Carolina. Stanford works in oil, acrylic and pastel, as well as in digital painting media (I believe the example images I’ve shown here are mostly if not all traditional media). His painting and pasted subjects include landscapes with an emphasis on rocky creeks and farming,…

  • John William North

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    Victorian painter John William North was known for his landscapes in both oil and watercolor. He secured work as an illustrator at an early age, but eventually abandoned his successful career in that field to pursue landscape painting full time. He was instrumental in the creation of a new, more durable linen-based watercolor paper, and…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Leonardo’s portrait of Ginevra de’ Benci

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    Ginevra de’ Benci, Leonardo da Vinci The link is to the page for the painting on the NGA site, which has a zoomable version as well as offering a link to a downloadable files, though you need to sign up for a free account to download the highest resolution version. There is also a zoomable…

  • Adrianus Eversen

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    I don’t know if it’s an actual genre, but there is a kind of 19th century Dutch cityscape painting that I particularly enjoy. These paintings feature streets lined with older brick buildings, and are atmospheric and richly textural, a visual combination that makes for delightful eye candy. The cityscapes of Adrianus Everson are a prime…

  • Fanny Churberg

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    Fanny Maria Churberg was a Finnish landscape painter active in the latter half of the 19th century. In addition to her initial training in her home country, she studied in Germany and France, and her style primarily reflected the influence of her German instructors. Churberg’s handling of landscape subjects, particularly those with rocky elements, are…