Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Barbara Pihos
Illinois artist Barbara Pihos works in the traditional printmaking techniques of etching and aquatint. She begins her landscapes with field sketches, which are the basis for more detailed compositions drawn directly into the acid resist on her zinc plates. She gives a brief overview of her process, and the etching/aquatint process in general, on her…
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Eye Candy for Today: Claude landscape with mythological figures
Landscape with Nymph and Satyr Dancing, Claude Lorrain On Google Cultural Institute: Art Project. Original is in the Toledo Museum of Art. Hi-res file on Wikimedia Commons. See my previous posts on Claude Lorrain, and here.
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Ellen Cooper
Ellen Cooper is a contemporary American portrait artist whose refined painting style and approach to her subjects has garnered her numerous awards and prominent mention in several publications. She studied at Tyler School of Art at Temple University, and pursued additional study under contemporary portrait masters Burton Silverman and Daniel Greene. Cooper’s website portfolio is…
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Eye Candy for Today: Fantin-Latour asters and fruit
Asters and Fruit on a Table, Henri Fantin-Latour Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use Fullscreen link and download arrow. I find it fascinating that Fantin-Latour has de-emphasized the glass vase — likely a star part of the composition in the hands of many other artists — and emphasized instead the textural surface of both the flowers…
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Thomas Sully
Thomas Sully was an American painter born in England. His family moved the the U.S. in 1792, when he was 9. He studied briefly with Gilbert Stuart, and traveled to London for nine months to study with American expatriate painter Benjamin West. Sully spent most of his career in Philadelphia. He painted such notable figures…
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Eye Candy for Today: Grimshaw's Evening Glow
Evening Glow, John Atkinson Grimshaw Original is in the Yale Center for British Art, which has a couple of large files available for download. Also on Wikimedia Commons.