Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Thomas R. Dunlay

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    Thomas R. Dunlay is a painter from Boston who, on finding the instruction offered in the art school in which he initially enrolled lacking in the traditional methods he sought, turned to individual instruction — first with Boston painter Robert Douglas Hunter, and then with Hunter’s teacher, the renowned R.H. Ives Gammell. Dunlay paints brilliant,…

  • Welcoming Spring with John William Waterhouse

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    Today marks the Vernal Equinox. Sigh. I can’t think of a painter who does “Spring” better than J.W. Waterhouse, and I’ve selected a few of his wonderful paintings depicting the season, or just young women and flowers. Sigh. For more Waterhouse, see my previous posts, below; and for an additional variety of paintings to celebrate…

  • Joseph McGurl

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    Well known American landscape painter Joseph McGurl works both in plein air an larger studio compositions. McGurl draws on the traditions of the American landscape painters of the 19th century, but in his pursuit of light, has a fresh, contemporary approach. McGurl is based on Cape Cod, and many of his scenes are of the…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Georges de La Tour candlelight scene

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    The Repentant Magdalen, Georges de La Tour Original is in the National Gallery of Art, D.C. High-resolution downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. La Tour gives us one of his (if you’ll excuse the expression) tour de force candle-lit scenes, in which the flame itself is hidden, but the forms are revealed by the direct but…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Holman-Hunt’s Isabella

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    Isabella and the Pot of Basil, William Holman Hunt (large version) Image from Get Into New Castle. Original is in the Liang Art Gallery, which doesn’t have its collection online. This article on The Journal shows the size of the original. This is the larger of two versions painted by Holman-Hunt. The smaller one, which…

  • George Barret, Sr.

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    18th century Irish landscape painter George Barret, Sr. (called Sr. or the elder because his son, George Barret Jr. also became a painter of note) spent much of his career in London, where he became a member of the Royal Academy. His subjects ranged from specific views of the British countryside to more dramatic imaginary…