Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Thomas Wilmer Dewing silverpoint portrait
Portrait of a Woman, Thomas Wilmer Dewing In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use the zoom or download icons under the image. Original sheet is roughly 22 x 19 in. (57 x 48 cm). The portrait is drawn in silverpoint, the most prevalent of the variations of metalpoint drawing. The artist draws with a thin…
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Jennifer Diehl
Originally from Wisconsin and now based in Oregon, Jennifer Diehl is a painter who brings a controlled but lively palette and painterly sensibility to a range of subjects: still life, landscape, cityscape, interiors, and figurative. Her landscapes feel fresh, unhurried and naturalistic, while still retaining the immediacy of location painting, and she often plays with…
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Eye Candy for Today: William Logsdail’s St Martin in the Fields
St Martin in the Fields, William Logsdail Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Tate Britain. I love the atmosphere in this painting of London’s Trafalgar Square by Victorian painter William Logsdail — the wetness of the stone, the textures of fabrics, and the…
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Eye Candy for Today: Henri Rousseau’s Carnival Evening
Carnival Evening, Henri-Julien-Félix Rousseau Zoomable image on Google Art Project; high-res file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. When I was younger, I had a poster of this painting on my apartment wall, and I still enjoy its presence here in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Rousseau is often considered…
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Paul Dmoch
Paul Dmoch is a Belgian painter whose watercolors are playgrounds of light. In them, light sparkles, bounces, glows, splinters and plays hide and seek amid the complexities of cathedral interiors, Venetian canals, narrow streets, dappled courtyards, open plazas and architectural landmarks of several cities. Light is an actor in his paintings, alternately coy and bold,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Frank Dicksee’s The Two Crowns
The Two Crowns, Frank Dicksee Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable high-res version on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Tate Britain. In a turn of the 20th century painting of a Medieval scene, the crown of a king is seen in a different light when he is struck with the…