Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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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…
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William Stanley Haseltine
William Stanley Haseltine was a 19th century American painter who studied in the US and Europe. Originally from Philadelphia, where he studied at the University of Pennsylvania and exhibited early in his career at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, he moved to New York, for a time working out of a building that…
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Drawings and Prints from the permanent collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art Exhibitions subtitled “Selections from the Permanent Collection” never sound dramatic, but shows of master drawings from collections like those of the Met (or the Morgan Library or the National Gallery) are actually rare treasures. Drawings and prints are considered delicate, subject to light…
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Self-portraits #13
More in my ongoing series of posts about artists’ self-portraits. I find self-portraits fascinating not just for the range of time periods and styles, but for the interesting variation in the way artists pose themselves. (Images above, links to my posts: Henri Martin, Marie-Suzanne Roslin, James Tissot, Ernest Meissonier, Peder Severin Kroyer, Giovanni Boldini, Camille…