Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Moran’s Green River Cliffs
Green River Cliffs, Wyoming, Thomas Moran On Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the National Gallery of Art, DC. The most striking of Moran’s dramatic paintings of the American West —which is saying something. For more, see my post on Thomas Moran.
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Francesco Francavilla
Italian comics artist Francesco Francavilla is known for his cover and interior art for numerous series for the American comics market, to which he brings a wonderful pulp/flim-noir sensibility. In addition to his cover and interior sequential art for various company-owned series, he has attracted attention with his creator-owned series Black Beetle, the visual subject…
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Gustave Doré
When I was growing up, there were several books in the house that helped prompt my interest in art. A couple of them, in particular, impressed me with the power of drawing and printmaking. One was a 1948 edition of Dante’s The Divine Comedy, illustrated by Gustave Doré; another was a Dover edition of Doré’s…
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E.A. Verdine
Ernie Verdine is an artist from Utah who works primarily in watercolor, and occasionally with gouache and acrylic. He uses a restrained palette, close value relatinships and strong textural elements to give his landscapes a feeling of quiet contemplation.
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Eye Candy for Today: Caligula’s Palace by Turner
Caligula’s Palace and Bridge, Joseph Mallord William Turner On Google Art Project. High-res downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Tate Britain. It’s paintings like this that earned Turner the appellation “Painter of Light”.
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John Walker
Illinois painter John Walker brings to his gallery work at least two things from his former career in illustration. One is a skilled approach to working in acrylics, a medium that sometimes does not get its due as a vehicle for representational realism in gallery art; another is a feeling for the narrative element in…