Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Jeremy Geddes
Jeremy Geddes is a painter and comics artist from New Zealand, now living and working in Melbourne, Australia. In his gallery work, Geddes explores space and gravity as much as light and chiaroscuro. His frequent subjects include cosmonauts, birds, and human figures, often suspended in darkness, defying gravity or apparently in violent motion crashing through…
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Eye Candy for Today: Irving Wiles’ Russian Tea
Russian Tea, Irving R. Wiles On Google Art Project. Downloadable high-res file on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Smithsonian American Art Museum. For more of his stunning work, along with information and links, see my post on Irving Ramsay Wiles.
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Franz Richard Unterberger
Franz Richard Unterberger was an Austrian painter active in the late 19th century. Though his early work featured mountains and Alpine scenes, the work for which he is best known is from his later career, and consists of landscapes that focus on architecture, — largely of locations in Italy like Venice, Naples, and the Amalfi…
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Eye Candy for Today: Burne-Jones’ Golden Stairs
The Golden Stairs, Edward Coley Burne-Jones On Wikimedia Commons. Zoomable version on Google Art Project. Original is in the Tate, London
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Ben Haggett
Ben Haggett is a painter from Montana, who also happens to make some of the best and most cleverly designed pochade boxes out there, under the name of Alla Prima Pochade (as I described in my extensive article on pochade boxes). Somewhat ironically, Haggett has in recent years become fascinated with digital painting, working in…
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Eye Candy for Today: Gossaert’s Merchant
Portrait of a Merchant, Jan Gossaert On Google Art Project. Hi-res downloadable on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the National Gallery of Art, DC. Gossaert has surrounded his subject with items relevant to his profession. For more, see my post on Jan Gossaert.