Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Carl Larsson’s Karin by the Shore
Karin by the Shore, Carl Larsson; watercolor, 29 x 21″ (75 x 54 cm). Link is to para on Wikipedia which links to high-res image file. There is also a zoomable version on Google Art Project. Original is in the Malmö Art Museum. Another of Swedish artist Carl Larsson’s delightful scenes of domestic life. In…
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Eye Candy for Today: Van Gogh Wheat Field ink drawing
Wheat Field, Vincent van Gogh; Reed pen and logwood ink over pencil; roughly 9 x 12 inches ( 24 x 31 cm); in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has both a zoomable and downloadable image on their site. I love these pen and brown ink drawings Van Gogh did late in…
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Gezien van de Riet
Gezien van de Riet is a contemporary Dutch painter who works in a naturalistic manner. Though she also paints portraits and various landscape subjects, she seems particularly entranced by the beauty of trees, which she often paints close up and in a compositional manner that effectively treats the subjects as portraits. In these, I find…
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Eye Candy for Today: Carl Larsson domestic interior
When the Children have Gone to Bed, Carl Larsson, ink and watercolor, roughly 12 x 17 inches (32 x 43 cm). Link is to image page on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the NatinalMuseum, Stockholm. Another of Carl Larsson’s wonderful ink and watercolor domestic scenes. This was part of a series called “A Home”, based…
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Albert Joseph Moore
Albert Joseph Moore was an English painter active in the late 19th century. He starrted his career as a decorative artist, designing stained glass, wallpaper and tiles as well as painting murals in private homes. As a painter he developed something of a neo-classical style, similar in ways to the approach of other Victorian era…
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Henry Ward Ranger
Henry Ward Ranger was an American painter from western New York State, who was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He lived and worked in Europe for a time — where he was exposed to the French art movement known as the Barbizon School, and became part of the less well known…