Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Empress Augusta leaves New York, Carl Saltzmann
Empress Augusta leaves New York (Kaiserin Augusta verlässt Newyork), Carl Saltzmann, chromolithograph. Link is to image page on Wikipedia. The available hi-res image is much larger than my crops. Carl Saltzmann, who was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was known for his seascapes and landscapes. Here, as the beautiful ship leaves…
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Matthew Bird
Matthew Bird is a watercolor painter based in the Baltimore area whose primary subjects are still life, portraits and figures. When I first glanced at the page of still life images on his website, I thought he was painting in a deliberately high-chroma manner. Once I started to look through, I realized he was actually…
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Eye Candy: Kamibashi Bridge at Nikko (Sacred Bridge) by Kawase Hasui
Kamibashi Bridge at Nikko (Sacred Bridge) *(see addendum, below) by Kawase Hasui, woodblock print, 15 x 10 (39 x 26 cm). The image of this impression of the print is from the ukyio-e.org site. A member of the shin-hanga movement in the early 20th century, Kawase Hasui had training in the methods of both traditional…
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Eye Candy for Today: John Chrome landscape etching
Tree on a Mound, John Chrome, etching, 13 x 12 in. ( 34 x 32 cm), in the collection fo the National Gallery of Art, DC. English landscape painter John Chrome, who was active in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, evokes a wooded scene with a wonderful selection of straight and wavy lines…
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Eye Candy for Today; John Frederick Lewis’s Lilium Auratum
Lilium Auratum (Golden-rayed Lily), John Frederick Lewis, oil on canvas, 54 x 34 in. ( 137 x 35 cm), in the collection of the City of Birmingham Museum. I can’t find an image on their site, so the link is to a large image on the Peaceful Artworks prints and reproductions site. Like many of…
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Eye Candy for Today: Carlo Ferrario pencil drawing
A Natural Stone Arch Beside the Sea, Carlo Ferrario, pencil on paper, 6 x 12 in. ( 21 x31 cm). In the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum. The link is to the Morgan Library page from which you can zoom or download the image. I recommend that, as my crops above are insufficient…