Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: John Atkinson Grimshaw cityscape
Glasgow Docks, John Atkinson Grimshaw; oil on card, roughly 12 x 20 inches (30 x 50 cm). Link is to Wikimedia Commons, I don’t know the location of the original. SInce the Wikimedia image was sourced from Bonham’s auctions, I would assume it’s in a private collection. This nicely atmospheric painting by the Victorian era…
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Kathy Ruck
Kathy Ruck is a painter based in Chester County in southeastern Pennsylvania. Chester County — as the locals will proudly tell you — is “Wyeth County” and Ruck finds inspiration not only in the work of the Wyeth family, but in the countryside in which they also found many of their subjects. A number of…
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Ian Sidaway
Ian Sidaway is an English artist and author or illustrator of numerous books on art instruction. Working primarily in watercolor, Sidaway portrays the english countryside — and places to which he has traveled — with crisp, clear, naturalistic compositions that have a distinct feeling of atmosphere, time and place. In his books, he has been…
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Eye Candy for Today: Rubens Santoro Venice canalscape
Along the Canal, Rubens Santoro; oil on canvas; roughly 16 x 13 inches ( 42 x 33 cm). Link is to image page on Wikimedia commons; I don’t know the location of the original. This view of a Venice canal by Italian artist Rubens Santoro reminds me strongly of similar subjects by Spanish painter Martin…
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Eye Candy for Today: William McCloskey still life
Apples in a Basket, William Joseph McCloskey; oil on canvas; roughly 8 x 18 inches (20 x 46 cm). Link is to Wikimedia Commons. The original is in a private collection. This still life by American painter William Joseph McCloskey — who was active in the late 19th and early 20 centuries — is much…
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Sydney Long
Sydney Long was an Australian painter and printmaker whose style was influenced by the Australian Heidelberg school, French Barbizon school plein air, Symbolism and Art Nouveau.