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Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Old Masters, Newly Acquired at the Morgan

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    Old Masters, Newly Acquired is an exhibition at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York that showcases recent additions to their terrific collection of master drawings. You can get an idea of the scope of the show from the brochure preview on the museum’s page for the exhibit. There is also a selection of…

  • Dennis Wojtkiewicz (update)

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    Since I first wrote about Ohio painter Dennis Wojtkiewicz (pronounced voy-KEV-itch) back in 2006, he has continued his large scale explorations of light and texture. These take the form of close ups of the heads of spreading, multi-petaled flowers, radiant with light cascading across their delicately rendered surfaces, and luminous depictions of fruit — unusual…

  • Hubert Robert

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    Early in his career, eighteenth century French painter Hubert Robert fell under the spell of the ruins of ancient Rome — their scale, suggestions of past grandeur and contrast with his modern times. Partly this was from his own experience while living in rome for eleven years, and partly from exposure to the similar fascination…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Eakins sculls

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    The Champion Single Sculls (Max Schmitt in a Single Scull), Thomas Eakins In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use Fullscreen link. One of Eakins’ fascinating exercises in river surface perspective on the Schuylkill River here in Philadelphia. This area of the river is still commonly used for sculling, though the bridges and the banks of…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Tissot’s Hide and Seek

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    Hide and Seek, James Jacques Joseph Tissot My fascination with this painting by Tissot (an underrated painter in my opinion), in not so much the ostensible subjects of the children playing as their mother reads, but the play of light among the wonderfully tactile surfaces and objects in this fascinating space, which is in the…

  • Impressionists on the Water

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    French Impressionism has always been associated with water. The painters themselves were drawn to the seashore and the rivers of France, filling their canvasses with dappled colors of light dancing across the surface of water under a variety of conditions. Impressionists on the Water is an exhibition of 80 paintings and drawings by Impressionists, Post-Impressionists…