Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Rembrandt townscape drawing
Stadspoort, Rembrandt Harmenz van Rijn In the collection of the Rijksmuseum; pen and brown ink, with wash; roughly 5 x 7 inches (138×196 mm). You will sometimes hear those writing about art, myself included, use the phrase economy of notation. If you were to look up that phrase in my personal dictionary, the definition would…
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Patrick Connors
Philadelphia based artist Patrick Connors Studied at the University of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. To my eye, the influence of the legacy Thomas Eakins left to the Academy — and to the city of Philadelphia — is visible in Connors’ similar fascination with the the play of light on the…
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Eye Candy for Today: Charles Sprague Pearce’s Arab Jeweler
The Arab Jeweler, Charles Sprague Pearce In the Metropolitan Museum of Art; use zoom or download icons under the image. This piece by the 19th century Boston painter of an Egyptian craftsman and his tools — a subject common among “Orientalist” painters — looks refined on the surface; but on closer inspection in the nicely…
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Jill Carver
Jill Carver is originally from the U.K., where she was a curatorial research assistant at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Since moving to the U.S. and transitioning into painting full time, she devotes herself to richly colored landscapes abstracted (in the best sense of that word, meaning to distill the essence) from the streams,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Menzel’s Flute Concert
Flute Concert with Frederick the Great in Sanssouci, Adolph Menzel Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Alte Nationalgalerie, National Museums in Berlin. The ostensible subject, Frederick the Great — about whom Menzel painted a series of works — is almost lost among the…
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Grzegorz Wróbel (update)
Grzegorz Wróbel is a Polish watercolorist who I first wrote about in 2010. Wróbel’s background in architectural design gives his cityscapes and street scenes a feeling of effortless strength that belies the complex challenge of perspective and rendering they present. He deftly steps between detail and suggestion, giving his compositions both a tactile immediacy and…