Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Super Bowl art bet 2014
In what should have been an annual tradition, but was apparently dropped for a time, art museums in the two U.S. cities sending teams to the Super Bowl are again engaging in an art loan wager. If the Seattle Seahawks win, the Denver Art Museum will loan “The Bronco Buster”, a sculpture by Frederick Remington,…
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Stock Schlueter
Stock Schlueter is a painter from northern California, who excels at capturing the light and atmosphere of that region, as well as more exotic locations from his travels. Previously a watercolor artist, Schlueter switched to oils, and works both on location and in the studio for his landscapes. His website has a portfolio of both…
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Eye Candy for Today: Corot landscape near Volterra
A View near Volterra, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot Wow. I just love these direct, observational landscapes from Corot — filled with light and the feeling of immediate atmosphere. You can see why the Impressionists thought so highly of him. Original is in the National Gallery of Art, D.C. The image on the linked page is zoomable. Click…
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Painters of the cliffs of Étretat
I had the pleasure today of re-watching one of David Dunlop’s informative episodes of Landscapes Through Time (which I profiled previously here on Lines and Colors). In this segment, he visited the famous chalk cliffs of Étretat, on the northwestern coast of France, where several generations of painters have been drawn to paint the dramatic…
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Eye Candy for Today: Greenhill’s Lady as a Shepherdess
A Lady as a Shepherdess, John Greenhill On Google Art Project, also downloadable high-res from Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Dulwich Picture Gallery. Though she is well presented, I don’t think Greenhhill has gone out of his way to flatter the sitter — or the sheep.
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Sun Jiapei’s sun-dappled canals and bridges
Originally from China, and now living and working in Japan, Sun Jiapei is a painter with a particular fascination for canals and urban streams. He paints these with a keen sense of the play of light across water as it flows through the angularly defined defined spaces of rock channels, walls, quays and bridges. The…