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Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • 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…

  • Mina dela Cruz

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    Mina dela Cruz is a painter specializing in still life and portraiture. Originally from the Philippines, she now lives and works in Toronto, Canada. Her website has galleries of still life, portrait painting and portrait drawings. In her still life, in particular, I find that sense of quiet contemplation that still life painters can sometimes…

  • Rosa Bonheur

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    I first took notice of the work of 19th century painter Marie-Rosalie Bonheur, more commonly known as Rosa Bonheur, when I was struck by her beautiful landscape of the Forest of Fontainebleau (images above, bottom) in an exhibition at the National Gallery in DC in 2008. Even among works by Corot, Rousseau, Monet and Sisley,…