Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Joseph Coomans portrait
Portrait of a Young Woman, Pierre Oliver Joseph Coomans (1816-1871), oil on canvas, 19 x 15 in. (48 x 38 cm). The link is to the Wikimedia Commons page from which you can view or download a large image. The image source is a 2017 Bonham’s auction, so I assume the painting is in a…
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Eye Candy for Today: Vernet’s Hunting in the Pontine Marches
Hunting in the Pontine Marches, Horace Vernet, oil on canvas, 40 x 54 in. (100 x 137 cm), in the collection of the National Galleryy of Art, DC. You can zoom or download a high resolution image from their page. Every once in a while, I come across a landscape that captures my intention, and…
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Maia Ramishvili
Maia Ramishvili is an artist from Tbilisi, Georgia. Her subjects are primarily women in ornate garb, the pattens and textures of which give the paintings a look of collage. Her restraint on using rendering in faces and hands gives the work a graphic feeling. but they are oil paintings on canvas. She also paints more…
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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…