Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for today: John Brett watercolor of the Amalfi Coast
Near Sorrento, John Brett Link is to zoomable image on Google Art Project; high resolution downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, UK. I got to see the sea and curve of the land from the cliffs of Sorrento when I visited the Amalfi Coast some years ago,…
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Eye Candy for Today: unfinished Paul Sandby oil sketch
An Unfinished View of the West Gate, Canterbury; Paul Sandby Link is to zoomable version on the Google Art Project; high-resolution downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Yale Center for British Art. Here Paul Sandby, primarily known as a watercolorist, has started a landscape sketch in oil on paper. He’s laid in…
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Innokenty Korshunov
Innokenty Korshunov is a painter living and working just outside of Kiev, Ukraine. Korshunov studied at the School of Art in Odessa, where he developed an admiration for the art of the Renaissance, as well as a respect for traditional techniques. He brings these sensibilities, as well as a keen eye and subtle sense of…
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Eye Candy for Today: Franz Xaver Winterhalter’s portrait of The Empress Eugénie
The Empress Eugénie, Franz Xaver Winterhalter In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use the zoom or download links below the image on their page. The painting’s finished feeling, when viewed from the proper distance, belies the painterly, almost casual and sketch-like handling when seen in detail.
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Sterling Hundey (update 2015)
Sterling Hundey is an illustrator and gallery artist who I first wrote about back in 2007. Hundley has recently unveiled a redesigned website. At the moment it focuses on three projects, but since I last featured Hundely in 2010, he has also established a Behance portfolio and deviantART gallery on which you can find additional…
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Eye Candy for Today: Corot pencil drawing
Young man in Front of a Great Oak, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot Graphite on tan paper, highlighted with white gouache, roughly 11 x 16 inches (39 x 29 cm). Link is to zoomable image on Google Art Project; downloadable high-resolution file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Corot’s precise and economical…