Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Self-portraits 11
More historic “selfies” in paint and chalk . (images above: Gustave Caillebotte, Mary Cassatt, Henri Fantin-Latour, Simon Bening, Berthe Morisot, Gilbert Stuart, Alice Pike Barney, Edvard Munch)
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Eye Candy for Today: Shishkin’s pine forest
Morning in a Pine Forest, Ivan Shishkin and Konstantin Savitsky. Shishkin supposedly had help from Savitsky in painting the bears, and perhaps some of the layout, but Savitsky’s name was later removed from the attribution. Link is to Wikimedia Commons; click through for a high-resolution version. Original is in the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
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Lorenzo Chávez
Lorenzo Chávez is a painter based in Colorado who paints the American West and Southwest in both pastels and oils. His pastels have a nicely painterly feeling, and his oils have a textural quality that, between them, give both a sense of continuity of style. His work has a character of light, air and color…
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Eye Candy for Today: Marchal’s Penelope
Penelope, Charles-François Marchal In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A wonderful eye for the textures of the fabrics and the yarn.
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The Inscrutable Eye: Sargent watercolors at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
For those in the Boston area who missed the show of Sargent Watercolors at the Museum of Fine Art, (which I mentioned here on
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The Flowering of Edo Period Painting
The Flowering of Edo Period Painting: Japanese Masterworks from the Feinberg Collection is an exhibition that just opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Drawing on the Museum’s deep collection of Japanese painting, it showcases masterpieces of ink painting and scrolls from the 17th and 18th centuries. 90-plus paintings will be exhibited…