Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Cropsey Autumn landscape
Autumn on Greenwood Lake, Jasper Francis Cropsey On Google Cultural Institute: Art Project. Use zoom controls in right side of image. Original is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Today is the Autumnal Equinox, and marks the beginning of Autumn (at least here in the Northern Hemisphere). The day and night are equal in…
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Eye Candy for Today: Waugh's Knight of the Holy Grail
The Knight of the Holy Grail, Frederick J. Waugh. In the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Click “View Larger” under the image.
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Warren Chang: Narrative Paintings
Warren Chang is a contemporary American realist painter based in California. After a solid career as an illustrator, Chang transitioned into gallery art 12 years ago, and has achieved wide recognition. Chang’s primary subjects are figures in interiors and figures in landscapes. In the former, which I personally find particularly wonderful, he has an uncanny…
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Nick Dudka (update)
Nick Dudka is a German born artist who studied art in Russia. After developing an interest in Buddhist religion and philosophy, he studied the art of Thangka, or scroll painting, in Mongolia, Nepal and India. Thangka paintings are usually painted on cloth — linen or cotton for most subjects, silk for more important subjects —…
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Eye Candy for Today: William Merritt Chase still life
Pink Azalea—Chinese Vase, William Merritt Chase In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Pink Azalea—Chinese Vase, Met Museum
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Theodore Clement Steele
As the impact of French Impressionism spread to the U.S. in the late 19th century, groups of American artists influenced by the new style began to form in Old Lyme, CT, New Hope, PA, Boston, New York and California. Less well known were groups of American Impressionist artists in the middle of the country, like…