Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Peder Krøyer’s Luncheon
A luncheon. The artist, his wife and the writer Otto Benzon, Peder Severin Krøyer Link is to zoomable version on Google Art project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Hirschsprung Collection, Copenhagen. Group portrait, self portrait, room interior or still life — Kroyer’s simple but beautifully painted domestic scene works brilliantly in…
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Stepan Kolesnikoff (Kolesnikov)
I came across the work of Stephan Fedorovich Kolesnikoff (alternately spelled Kolesnikov or Kolesnykov) while poking through some Russian language blogs, and had a “Woah! Who is this?” reaction. After searching up a bit more of his work, Kolesnikoff immediately went on my list of favorite artists who work in gouache. Though he also did…
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Superbowl art bet 2015: Bierstadt and Homer
In what has become a fledgling tradition — started in 2010 at the suggestion of Modern Art Notes writer Tyler Green — major museums from the two regions of the U.S. competing in this years Superbowl have engaged in an art loan wager. Each museum wagers a three month loan of a major artwork from…
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John Singer Sargent’s portrait drawings
John Singer Sargent, one of the best portrait painters of the 19th century, eventually tired of his role as a society portrait painter. In his later career he greatly reduced the number of formal portrait commissions he accepted, preferring to travel and pursue his own on location watercolors. However, he continued portraiture in a different…
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Eye Candy for Today: Arthur Streeton’s Railway Station
The Railway Station, Redfern; Arthur Streeton Link is to zoomable images on Google Art Project; high-resolution downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Art Gallery of New South Wales. The more I see of Streeton’s work, particularly in high-resolution detail, the more impressed I am — rich, subtle color, lively brush marks, beautiful…
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Eye Candy for Today: Fragonard’s Progress of Love: The Meeting
The Progress of Love: The Meeting, Jean-Honoré Fragonard Link is to zoomable image on Google Art Project; high resolution downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Frick Collection. This was part of a series of four large paintings depicting four stages of love. All four, along with several smaller canvasses, are now in…