Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: William Rickarby Miller apples
Still Life – Study of Apples, William Rickarby Miller I’ve linked here to a version of this image on The Athenaeum. The original is in the de Young museum in San Francisco. There is a high resolution version on the Google art Project, and a downloadable high resolution image on Wikimedia Commons. The Google Art…
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Monet and the Seine: Impressions of a River, MFA Houston
Monet and the Seine: Impressions of a River is an exhibition currently at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston that collects over 50 works related to the French Impressionist’s lifelong fascination with the river at the heart of Paris and, metaphorically, at the heart of France. Monet was known for his series paintings, in which…
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Eye Candy for Today: Leighton’s Cymon and Iphigenia
Cymon and Iphigenia, Lord Frederic Leighton On Google Art Project; high-resolution downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Art gallery of New South Wales. Victorian artist Frederic Leighton brings his finessed painting skill to bear on a sensual and erotic portrayal of a tale from The Decameron — the famous 14th century Italian…
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Hans Andersen Brendekilde
Hans Andersen Brendekilde was a Danish painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His actual surname was Andersen, but he took on the name of his home village to avoid being confused with another artist. He originally painted scenes of social realism, showing the struggles of workers and farmers, then moved into…
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Eye Candy for Today: Rembrandt’s Self-portrait with Two Circles
Self-portrait with Two Circles, Rembrandt We don’t have access on the web to an image at the level of high resolution available for the Rembrandt self-portrait at the age of 53 that I wrote about a few days ago, but we can see enough to appreciate more of the master’s superb painting skills. Rembrandt was…
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Eye Candy for Today: Grimshaw’s Stapleton Park
Stapleton Park near Pontefract Sun, John Atkinson Grimshaw On WikiArt. The original is in a private collection. Grimshaw loved to do these scenes of softly lit Autumn evenings with a lone figure, usually a woman seen from behind, walking down an empty stretch of road. See also my previous Eye Candy post of Grimwhaw’s Evening…