Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Ann Kraft Walker
Largely self-taught, Texas painter Ann Kraft Walker started out in a folk art style, but eventually evolved into a refined realist approach for her still life and portrait subjects. Since 2010, she has supplemented her study with several workshops, and has been featured in a number of juried exhibitions and art magazines. Walker’s still life…
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Eye Candy for Today: Bargue’s Bashi-Bazouk
A Bashi-Bazouk, Charles Bargue In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Like Jean-Léon Gérôme, his contemporary and collaborator in the well known drawing course that bears his name, Bargue’s paintings were often of Orientalist subjects. A Bashi-Bazouk was an irregular soldier of the Ottoman Army. Bargue has here rendered the objects with which he is surrounded…
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Sorolla and America in San Diego
Sorolla and America, an exhibition of works by the brilliant Spanish painter Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida — that I reported on in 2013 when it was at the Meadows Museum — is now at the San Diego Museum of Art, where it will be on display until August 26, 2014. Not to be missed. Unfortunately,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Streeton’s Autumn
Autumn, Arthur Streeton On Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Art Gallery of Ballarat. While those of us in the northern hemisphere have been basking in the vibrant blooming of Spring, our friends in the southern hemisphere have been enjoying the russet browns, ochres and siennas of Autumn. For more on the artist, see my…
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Eye Candy for today: Daniel Ridgway Knight fishing scene
Two Women Fishing, Daniel Ridgway Knight On Wikimedia Commons. Original is in a private collection. Speaking — as I was in this Eye Candy post on Peder Mønsted, about paintings that look smoothly refined from a distance, but are wonderfully painterly in detail — here is a summer scene by Daniel Ridgway Knight. I’m long…
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Anders Zorn’s etchings
In my post on the paintings of the terrific Swedish artist Anders Zorn back in March of this year, I promised to follow up with a post on his amazing etchings. I just love etchings, they have a line quality and visual charm unlike any other medium. There are three artists at the very top…