Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Hassam’s Fifth Avenue flags
Rainy Day, Fifth Avenue, and Flags, Fifth Avenue; Childe Hassam First link is to Princeton University Art Museum, which has the original oil in its collection (there is also a version on Wikimdeia Commons); the second link is to Wikimedia Commons; I don’t know the location of the original watercolor. Today is Veterans Day here…
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Marie Spartali Stillman (update)
Marie Spartali Stillman was a Pre-Raphaelite painter, notably the most well known of the women painters among that group, as well as a model for several of the other painters in the Pre-Raphaelite circle. Stillman studied with the renowned Victorian painter Ford Madox Brown, who was not a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, but was…
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Eye Candy for Today: Degas’ Dance Lesson
The Dance Lesson, Edgar Degas In the National Gallery of Art, DC. Downloadable high-res file on Wikipedia, as well as a descriptive page. This wonderfully brushy oil painting — that has some of the textural feeling of the artist’s pastels — is the first of a series of works on the theme of ballet dancers…
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Rowland Hilder
Born in the U.S. to British parents, Rowland Hilder moved to England with his family at the age of 10, studied at Goldsmith’s College School of Art — where he eventually returned as a professor of drawing — and went on to become one of the UK’s most popular watercolor artists of the 20th century.…
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Eye Candy for Today: Frederic Remington’s Small Oaks
Small Oaks, Frederic Remington Link is to a zoomable version on Google Art Project; the original is in the Frederic Remington Art Museum, which only has reproductions of their collection in their store. We usually associate 19th century painter Frederic Remington with his depictions of the American West, cowboys, Native Americans and historical subjects. It’s…
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Michael Robear
The watercolors of northeastern Maryland artist Michael Robear would be striking enough in any context — crisply rendered in muted palettes, with intriguing narrative elements bordering on magic realism — but they are particularly arresting in their individualized sculptural frames. In addition to being a painter, Robear is a sculptural metalworker and also works with…