Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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New Van Gogh discovered
The Van Gogh Museum in Amstedam has confirmed the attribution of a painting titled Sunset at Montmajour, formerly thought to be a fake and long stored in a private attic, as a genuine Van Gogh. (Another fine addition to Not the usual Van Goghs.)
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Eye Candy for Today: Anna Alma-Tadema watercolor
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s Library in Townshend House, London, Anna Alma-Tadema. On Google Cultural Institute: Art Project. Also available on Wikimedia Commons. Watercolor, gouache, pen and ink, graphite on white paper. The original is in the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Until I came across this piece on the Google Art Project, I didn’t even realize…
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Fulvio di Piazza
Fulvio di Piazza’s large scale paintings seem to depict collisions of aspects of the natural world, animal, mineral and vegatable, with the rough scars of the artificial. And the collisions aren’t pretty — except of course, that they are. Extraordinarily detailed and textural, his landforms, trees, clouds, animals, faces and fanciful forms combine with one…
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Eye Candy for Today: Jan Roos still life
Still Life with Fruit and Vegetables, Jan Roos On Google Cultural Institute: Art Project. Also on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Musei di Strada Nuova.
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Tilden Daken
Samuel Tilden Daken was an American aritst and writer active in the early part of the 20th century. He was noted for his plein air paintings of the California countryside, mountains, and redwood forests, as well as for his colorful life experiences. Early in his career, Daken worked as a fresco painter, but most of…
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Eye Candy for Today: Mønsted forest scene
A forest near Ilsenburg in the Harz, Germany, Peder Mørk Mønsted. On Wikimedia Commons. I don't know the location of the original. See my previous post on Peder Mørk Mønsted.