Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Abbey Ryan (update)
I first wrote about Philadelphia based painter Abbey Ryan back in 2007. She was a early adopter of the “painting-a-day” regimen and the painter/blogger approach to selling directly to individuals and collectors through the internet, bypassing the traditional gallery system. Ryan studied oil painting with David Leffel at the Art Students League in New York,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Metsu’s Woman Reading a Letter
Woman Reading a Letter, Gabriel Metsu Link is to a version on Wikimedia Commons. The original is in the National Gallery of Ireland. This painting of a woman reading a letter, laced with symbolism and implied narrative, was intended as a “pendant” to Man Writing a Letter (the two paintings were meant to hang together…
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Eye Candy for Today: Henri Harpignies’ View of Moulins
A View of Moulins, Henri-Joseph Harpignies In the Metropolitan Museum of Art; use the download or zoom icons under the image on their site. At once straightforward and poetic, this view of a town in central France by the Barbizon painter is a beautiful example of the evocative power of watercolor. Harpignies combines solid draftsmanship,…
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William Logsdail
William Logsdail was an English painter active during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He painted portraits, still life, history and genre subjects, but was known in particular for his beautiful portrayals of London and Venice, many of which were panted on location. His rich, textural evocations of streets and buildings often feel saturated…
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Eye Candy for Today: Pissarro’s Boulevard Montmartre in Winter
The Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning, Camille Pissarro In the Metropolitan Museum of Art; use the zoom or download icons under the image on their site. This is part of a remarkable series of views of two of the grand boulevards of Paris, painted from a hotel room over the period of three months…
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Mike Wise
Mike Wise is a painter based on Whidby Island in Washington who combines loose, gestural brushwork with dimensionally textural applications of painting knives to achieve a fascinating surface quality. He works with contrasts of roughly formed lost-and-found edges and punctuations of more sharply defined forms to give his work a feeling of subjects emerging from…