Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: George Inness landscape study
Landscape Study, George inness On Wikimedia Commons. As far as I can tell, the original is in a private collection. In this small but strikingly beautiful study (9×13 in; 23x33m), we get an uncharacteristic glimpse of Inness wielding the brush. The brief notations of the animals and buildings are remarkable for their naturalistic appearance when…
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Martin Wittfooth (update)
Martin Wittfooth is a New York based painter who I first wrote about back in 2008. Wittfooth applies his lifelong fascination with classical art to paintings in which animals serve as the subject of sometimes overt, sometimes enigmatic musings on the state of the planet. No humans appear in his paintings, but the influence of…
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Eye Candy for Today: Ingres graphite portrait of Mme. Lethière
Madame Alexandre Lethière and Her Daughter Letizia, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres Graphite on paper, roughly 11×9 in (30×22 cm); in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use the download or zoom icons under the image. Another of Ingres’ marvelous pencil portraits in which the delicately attentive portrait is set off by his seemingly casual sketch of…
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Gregg Kreutz
Originally from Wisconsin, Gregg Kreutz is a New York Based painter, teacher and author. His book Problem Solving for Oil Painters, originally published in 1986 and now in its fifth printing, has become something of an art instruction standard. Kreutz graduated from N.Y.U. and continued his training at the Art Student’s League, where he studied…
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Arthur Melville
Though he was also accomplished in oil, 19th century Scottish painter Arthur Melville is know in particular for his unique and influential style of watercolor painting. Melville’s approach was radical and very different from the mainstream of British watercolorists at the time. Though he worked in transparent watercolor, Melville painted on specially prepared paper which…
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Eye Candy for Today: Bonvin Chrysanthemum
Flowering Chrysanthemum, Léon Bonvin Watercolor, gouache, pen and iron gall ink, roughly 10×8 in (24×19 cm). In the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. Click on “Explore Object” or “Download Image” for large version. Bonvin’s sensitive rendering of the plant is beautifully set off by his atmospheric suggestion of morning haze, through which we can just see…