Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Guy Rose (update 2)
Guy Orlando Rose was one of the most prominent of the painters known as “California Impressionists”, and notably, one of those who was born in the state. He traveled to Europe, where he studied in Paris, and painted in Giverny with Monet and the other French Impressionists. He returned to the US and lived on…
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Eye Candy for Today: Willem Kalf’s silver jug
Still Life with Silver Jug, Willem Kalf In the Rijksmuseum. Image also available on Google Art Project and Wikimedia Commons. Kalf just loved to trace the path of light across arrangements of complex objects, particularly those with intricate reflective surfaces. I love the reflected color of the lemon in the sculptural metal patterns of the…
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Eye Candy for Today, Bernardino Luini portrait
Portrait of a Lady, Bernardino Luini In the National Gallery of Art, DC. A 16th century Italian lady in her finery, with her rather toothy fashion accessory.
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Aureliano de Beruete (update)
As I expected, online resources for Spanish painter Aureliano de Beruete y Moret have widened since I wrote about his work back in 2009, although not quite as much as I had hoped. Available images of his colorful, painterly and textural landscapes are still a bit small in general, and (I think) less reliable in…
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Eye Candy for Today: Paul Sandby ink and wash drawing
View in Windsor Park, Paul Sandby Pen and brown ink, gray wash, over a graphite underdrawing. 13 3/16 x 20 1/4 in. (335 x 515 mm). In the Morgan Library & Museum. Click Zoom, then use Full Screen and zoom controls under image. Info at left.
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Kevin Menck
Kevin Menck is a plein-air painter based in Nashville, Tennessee whose work I’ve been following for a number of years. After 15 years as a freelance illustrator, Menck transitioned into gallery painting, specifically plein air landscape painting. He has been posting his work and blogging his experiences in the field since 2007, and recently launched…