Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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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…
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Eye Candy for Today: Mønsted Summer landscape
Summer landscape with river floodplain, Peder Mørk Mønsted On Wikimedia Commons. Original is in a private collection. 32×48 inches (81x121cm) I love the way paintings like this, and Mønsted’s in particular, look at first to be smoothly finished and refined, but reveal themselves on closer inspection to be wonderfully painterly.
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A few paintings from 1879
I’m constantly astonished and delighted at what a cornucopia of art was the late 19th century. I don’t know of a period in which there was a greater array of disparate styles and movements. Had the preceding centuries not also been bountiful with wonderful work, I’d be tempted to call it a second Renaissance. I…