Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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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.…
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Eye Candy for Today: Johann Tischbein chalk portrait
Profile Portrait of Miss Wieling, Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein Red chalk on paper, 14 x 10 inches (35 x 26 cm). In the Metropolitan Museum of Art This forceful but delicate profile portrait is made graphically strong by the artist’s use of dramatic value contrast between the face and background. His approach is precise, with…
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Raymond Berry
Virginia artist Ray Berry walks a line between representation and suggestion, his strongly seasonal landscapes reveal themselves on closer inspection to be strikingly physical applications of paint. He works both in oil and the difficult hot wax process of encaustic, the latter giving even greater leeway for producing a textural surface, to the point of…
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Eye Candy for Today: WT Richards’ Lago Avernus
Lago Avernus, William Trost Richards In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Watercolor and gouache on blue paper, 4 1/2 x 9 1/9 inches (11 x 24 cm). Lago Avernus (“Lake Avernus”) is a lake in a volcanic crater in the Campania region of southern Italy. Once believed to be the mythical entrance to the Underworld,…