Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Marc Dalessio (update 2024)
Marc Dalessio is a contemporary American painter whose work I have followed with interest for a number of years. I first wrote about him in 2009, and again in 2014. I’m long overdue to feature him again for perhaps a new group of readers. Dalessio travels the world, painting and teaching, and his work captures…
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George Clausen’s Day Dreams
Day Dreams, George Clausen, oil on canvas; roughly 27 x 60 inches (70 x 152 cm). Link is to the image file page on Wikimedia Commons. Their source is a 2007 Sotheby’s auction, so I assume the original is currenty in a private collection. In this idyllic rural scene by the British painter George Clausen,…
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Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema
Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema (née Epps) was a British painter active in the late 19th cenntury who was evidently fascinated with Dutch 17th century genre painting, notably the works of Vermeer and De Hooch. She apparently did not have formal training and likely received most of her instruction from her husband, noted Victorian painter Lawrence Alma-Tadema,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Rembrandt’s Omval
The Omval, Rembrandt van Rijn, etching and drypoint, roughly 7 x 9 inches (19×23 cm); this printing is in the collection of the Metropolitan museum of Art, which has both a zoomable and downloadable version of the image. Rembrandt was, in my opinion, the greatest master of etching and drypoint in history. Though many…
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A few paintings from 1888
Most of these were sourced from this page on Wikimedia Commons. I think the late 19th and early 20th centuries produced an extraordinary bounty of wonderful paintings. (Images above, links are to my articles: Charles Edward Perugini, Emil Zschimmer, Olga Boznańska, Peder Mørk Mønsted, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissarro, John Singer Sargent, Vincent van…
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Eye Candy for Today: Whistler etching of Annie Haden
Annie Haden, James McNeill Whistler, drypoint, roughly 19 x 13 inches (35 x 21 cm). This printing of the plate is in the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art, which has both a zoomable and downloadable version of the file. (The museum has a collection of Whistler’s work, presumably in his role as an American…