Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Vermeer’s Young Woman with a Water Pitcher
Young Woman with a Water Pitcher, Johannes Vermeer In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; use the zoom or download icons under the image on the museum’s website. Of the 35 or 36 Vermeer paintings acknowledged to exist, I’ve had the good fortune in my time to have seen perhaps 20 in person.…
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Works on Paper at Arcadia Contemporary
This is one of those wonderful group shows in which there is a common theme (simply works on paper), a broad variety of approaches, media and technique, and a high level of skill among the participants. There is a sub-theme, in that 17 of the works were done specifically at a size that could be…
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Hsin-Yao Tseng
Originally from Taipei, Taiwan, Hsin-Yao Tseng studied painting in the U.S. at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. Tseng varies his approach, from refined and finished to loosely gestural, often with areas of the canvas left unpainted. At times he combines the two approaches to superb effect, with a refined subject appearing to…
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Alice Pike Barney
American painter and pastellist Alice Pike Barney was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries — a time when outspoken, involved, skilled and independent-minded women like herself were the model for what was seen by proponents of early feminism as the “New Woman”. Based in Washington, DC, she travelled to Paris, where her…
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Mark Stewart
Mark Stewart is a Texas based watercolor painter and architect. Though his architectural training shows in his adept representation of rural buildings and interior spaces, I find it interesting that the majority of his paintings appear to focus on organic landscape elements and portraits rather than citycapes. Stewart lists among his influences Winslow Homer, Andrew…