Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Hopper Drawing
Hopper Drawing is a show at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York that pulls from a collection of over 2,500 drawings in the museum’s holdings, along with some of Hopper’s most iconic paintings, to examine both his process as a painter and his role as a draftsman. Though I have not yet…
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Eye Candy for Today: Whistler’s Purple And Rose
Purple and Rose: The Lange Leizen of the Six Marks, James Abbott McNeill Whistler On Google Cultural Institute: Art Project. Also visible as a single large image on Wikimedia Commons (5mb). Original is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. I stop to be stunned by this beautiful painting every time I visit the museum. I…
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Laura Knight
Dame Laura Johnson Knight was a popular British artist known for her paintings of dancers, gypsies and circus performers, her wartime reportage, and her iconic painting of the Nuremburg Trials (images above, second from bottom), which she attended. Knight also painted landscapes and wonderfully incisive portraits. Knight, born Laura Johnson, had a mother whose own…
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Sarah Lamb
There are times, of course, when paintings can be arresting because of their color and drama; there are also times when paintings can be striking because of their subtleties. The refined, intimate still life paintings of Sara Lamb are a case in point. Lamb uses a muted palette, carefully controlled value contrasts and deft variation…
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Michael Sowa (update)
When I first wrote about the delightfully whimsical and decidedly off-kilter paintings of German artist Michael Sowa back in 2006, I had to refer readers to poster sites to view examples of his work. I still can’t find a dedicated web presence for Sowa — though there is a portfolio on the site of artists’…