Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for today: Whistler’s Purple and Rose: The Lange Leizen of the Six Marks
Purple and Rose: The Lange Leizen of the Six Marks, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, oil on canvas, roughly 37 x 24 inches (93 x 61 cm); in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which has both a zoomable and downloadable image on their site. The original painting is here in Philadelphia and I’ve…
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Edwin Austin Abbey (revisited)
Edwin Austin Abbey, who I first wrote about in 2006, was an American painter, illustrator and muralist who was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born here in Philadelphia, Abbey studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He did a series of highly regarded murals and other artworks for the…
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Eye Candy for Today: William McGregor Paxton’s House Maid
The House Maid, William McGregor Paxton; oil on canvas, roughly 30 x 25 inches (76 x 64 cm); in the Corcoran Collection of the National Gallery of Art, DC. The museum’s page has both zoomable and downloadble high-resolution images. You can also access the high resolution image from this page on Wikimedia Commons. Exquisite.
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Antonietta Brandeis
Antonietta Brandeis (AKA Antonie Brandeisová) was an Austrian/Hungarian painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She studied at the Venetian Academy of Fine Arts, and is most recognized for her paintings of that extraordinary city.
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Eye Candy for Today: Gerrit Dou’s A Woman playing a Clavichord
A Woman playing a Clavichord, Gerrit Dou, oil on panel, roughly 15 x 12 inches (38 x 300 cm); image is from Wikimedia Commons; the original is in the collection of the Dulwich Picture Gallery. There is also a zoomable version on the Google Art Project, but it’s quite dark, as is the one on…
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Jules Bastien-Lepage (revisited)
Jules Bastien-Lepage was a French painter active in the late 19th century. His depictions of rural life were in a style called naturalism, an offshoot of realism, an art movement led by Gustave Courbet (as opposed to the more general use of the term today). His paintings of field workers and village life came from…