Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Federico del Campo
Federico del Campo was a Peruvian painter active in the late 19th and early 20th century who was noted for his large scale scenes of Venice. He studied in Spain at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid, and traveled and painted in Italy and France. He settled in Venice for a time, where…
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Eye candy for Today: Jan de Beijer ink and wash drawing
Grebbesluis, Jan de Beijer Ink and wash, roughly 4 1/2 x 12 (120x30cm). In the Rijksmuseum. With clear observation, economical delineation and a few simple tones, 18th century draftsmana nd painter Jan de Beijer gives us an evocative semi-panoramic scene. It looks to me like the right side of the drawing may have been cut…
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Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends
“Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends” is a new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art until October 4, 2015. Over 100 of Sargent’s oils, watercolors and drawings, on loan and from the museum’s own superb collection. My God, what more do you want me to say? Just go if you possibly can.
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Eye Candy for Today: Durer’s Knight, Death and the Devil
Knight, Death and the Devil, Albrecht Dürer Engraving, roughly 10×8″ (24x19cm). In the Metropolitan Museum of Art; use download arrow or zoom icon under the image. Wow.
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Eye Candy for Today: Edwin Austin Abbey scene from Shakespeare
“King Lear”, Act I, Scene I; Edwin Austin Abbey In the Metropolitan Museum of Art, use zoom link or download arrow under image. Also, larger, somewhat brighter image on Wikimeda Commons. Usually the Met’s images are pretty accurate, but I happen to like the one from Wikimedia Commons a little better in this case, so…
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Eye Candy for Today: Louis Comfort Tiffany gouache sketch
Woodland Interior, Louis Comfort Tiffany Watercolor and gouache on tan paper, roughly 16×22″ (40x56cm), in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. James Gurney has a nice post on his blog today about some of his favorite gouache Masters, which prompted me to think of a few artists who did beautiful work in gouache, though they were…