Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Manuel Ocaranza’s Love of the Hummingbird and The Dead Flower
The Love of the Hummingbird and The Dead Flower, Manuel Ocaranza Links are to zoomable versions on Google Art Project, downloadable version of The Love of the Hummingbird and The Dead Flower on Wikimedia Commons, originals are in the Museo Nacional De Arte of Mexico (no images). The Love of the Hummingbird is a charming…
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Ettore Roesler Franz
Ettore Roesler Franz was a 19th century German/italian painter, noted in particular for his watercolors of Rome. A number of these comprise a series titled “Roma sparita” (loosely: “Vanished Rome”), meant in part to record scenes of buildings and landmarks the he feared would be demolished in an effort to modernize the city. His watercolors…
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“Celebrating Women Artists” at Arcadia Contemporary
Arcadia Contemporary, a gallery in NYC that focuses largely on contemporary art in the representational tradition, has a new show titled “Celebrating Women Artists” in which they are showcasing work by six women artists from among the artists they represent. The show features three painters, two sculptors and a photographer. I’ve featured images of work…
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Eye Candy for Today: H Siddons Mowbray’s Idle Hours
Idle Hours, H. Siddons Mowbray Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project, downloadable file on Wikipedia, original is in the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Though not in the kind of exotic location common to the Orientalist paintings that were fashionable the time, Mowbray has dressed is models in oriental costume as they languorously…
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Leo Mancini-Hresko (update)
Leo Mancini-Hresko is a painter from Boston who I first wrote about in 2013. He brings his appealingly textural approach to bear on landscape, interiors and still life subjects, in which his controlled use of color and value brings the textural elements to the fore. Mancini-Hresko’s work will be on display in a solo show…
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Judith Pond Kudlow
Judith Pond Kudlow is an artist living and working in New York City, where she co-founded with artist Andrea J. Smith a classical atelier named NYK Academy, formerly the Harlem Studio of Art. Kudlow’s primary subjects are still life and figurative, the former in particular is appealing for the feeling of harmony in her compositions.…