Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Pensionante del Saraceni still life
Still Life with Fruit and Carafe, Pensionante del Saraceni In the National Gallery of Art, DC; you have to use the download link to see a larger image. (The largest version requires a free account to download.) Clearly observed and directly painted, this early 17th century still life has a particularly beautiful compositional flow. Your…
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Eye Candy for Today: John White Alexander’s Repose
Repose, John White Alexander In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; use the download or zoom icons under the image for high-resolution version. This stunning painting by 19th century American artist John White Alexander — who focused on paintings of well-attired young women in luxurious settings — combines the fluid brushwork of fin-de-siécle…
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Helen Allingham
Helen Allingham was a Victorian English watercolor painter and illustrator. Born Helen Mary Elizabeth Paterson, Allingham was encouraged by a grandmother and aunt, who were established artists, and took to art early on. She studied at the Birmingham School of Design and then at the women’s school of the National Art Training School (later renamed…
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Eye Candy for Today: Fuseli’s Nightmare
The Nightmare, Henry Fuseli, 1781; The Nightmare, engraving after Fuseli by Thomas Burke; The Nightmare Henri Fuseli, 1791; The Nightmare, engraving after Fuseli by Thomas Halloway Images are from Wikimedia Commons; original of the first version is in the Detroit Institute of Arts This 18th century painting by English-Swiss artist Henry Fuseli has become one…
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Steven Hileman
Originally from Pennsylvania and now based in Maine, Steven Hileman transitioned from a career as an illustrator into a full time gallery artist. Hileman paints florals, still life and figureative works, but concentrates primarily on landscape and cityscape. His approach if notable for the manner in which his painterly brush marks work into and reinforce…