Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eugene de Blaas
Eugene de Blaas (Eugen von Blaas) was an academic painter born in Italy to Austrian parents. He studied art under his father, Karl von Blaas, also a noted painter. He spent much of his career in Venice, where he followed in his father’s footsteps in becoming a professor at the Academy of Venice. Eugene de…
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Eye Candy for Today: Roepel still life
Still Life with Fruit, Coenraet Roepel Google Art Project. Click at right of image for zoom controls. Original is in the Museo Lázaro Galdiano. Show off!
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Warwick Fuller
Well known Australian painter Warwick Fuller has spent his career depicting the wild, unique beauty of the Australian landscape in a variety of seasons, weather conditions and qualities of light. His often vibrantly colored paintings are done largely on location, though he is working a bit more in the studio at this point in his…
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Eye Candy for Today: Canaletto drawing
Architectural Capriccio, Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) Pen and brown ink, with gray wash, over graphite and traces of black chalk, 11 1/4 x 8 1/16 inches (286 x 204 mm) Wow, I just love drawings like this — simultaneously loose and gestural and pinned to geometrically solid draftsmanship. What a brilliant use of warm brown…
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Leo Mancini-Hresko
Massachusetts artist Leo Mancini-Hresko studied at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, and then in Italy at the Florence Academy of Art, where he stayed on after graduation as an instructor and later director of the drawing program for sculptors. Having returned to the U.S., where he established a studio in Waltham, MA,…
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Evert Dijkstra
Evert Dijkstra was a Dutch painter active in the late 20th century and the early part of this one, up until his death in 2008. He was originally a graphic designer, woodcarver and sculptor, and took up still life in the 1980s. Apart from that, I know frustratingly little. I haven’t been able to find…
