Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Arthur Parton landscape
Early Spring, Arthur Parton In the Indianapolis Museum of Art, use zoom or download options to the right of the image. Beautifully direct and painterly, with wonderful control of hard and soft edges, Parton’s unpretentious landscape captures the season perfectly.
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Gabriel von Max
Gabriel Cornelius von Max was a Czech/Austrian painter who was active in the late 19th and early 20 centuries. Among his fascinations were parapsychology, mysticism and Asian philosophy, as well as anthropology and Darwinism. Likely from his interest in the latter, he kept a family of monkeys on his property, studied them and painted them,…
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New online collection from the Indianapolis Museum of Art
A number of art museums have been revitalizing their websites as they begin to realize what a powerful tool they are for public relations, as well as for their theoretical mission of education. Not all can aspire to the gold standard set a few years ago by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, but many museums…
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Alfred Wahlberg
19th century Swedish landscape painter Alfred Wahlberg studied briefly in Stockholm and in Dusseldorf, but took influence from his exposure to modern French painting in Paris; and his work shows both the dark moodiness of the northern schools and the brighter palette of the French painters. In much of his work, even pieces that I…
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Leah Lopez
Though she also works with figurative, landscape and cityscape subjects, still life is the primary focus of New York based artist Leah Lopez. It was a particular quality of her still life paintings that most captured my attention. For lack of a better word, I might call it “presence”. Her still life subjects have immediacy,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Childe Hassam’s Washington Arch, Spring
Washington Arch, Spring, Childe Hassam The link is to a zoomable version on the GoogleArt Project; there is a downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons; the original is in the Phillips Collection, Washington, DC. What has always fascinated me about this painting — one of Hassam’s most recognizable works — is the seeming defiance of compositional…