Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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More on Sargent watercolors at the Brooklyn Museum
As I reported back in May (don’t say I didn’t give you advance notice on this one), there is a once-in-a-lifetime show of ninety-three of John Singer Sargent’s dazzling watercolors, supplemented with nine beautiful oils, at the Brooklyn Museum until July 28, 2013. The show then moves to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where…
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Eye Candy for Today: Ingres portrait of Princesse de Broglie
Joséphine-Éléonore-Marie-Pauline de Galard de Brassac de Béarn (1825–1860), Princesse de Broglie, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres In addition to dazzling the eye with his handling of face, figure, fabric and jewelry, Ingres leaves no doubt that he has nailed the sitter’s likeness. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use “Fullscreen” link and download arrow.
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James Peale
Today is July 4, or “Indepenence Day” here in the U.S., a holiday on which we celebrate our freedom from having to pay undue deference to rich people with certain family bloodlines, and instead can devote our worshipful attention to talentless entertainment celebrities — as is just and right. It’s also a day in which…
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Alexandre Calame
Alexandre Calame was a Swiss painter and printmaker active in the mid nineteenth century. He was noted for his depictions of the Swiss mountain landscapes, which he captured in a series of location drawings and studies and later developed into finished paintings in his studio.
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Eye Candy for Today: Rørbye’s window
View from the Artist’s Window, Martinus Rørbye In the Statens Museum for Kunst, National Gallery of Denmark. High-resolution image here.
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Martin Rico
I first encountered Spanish artist Martin Rico y Ortega, known more simply as Martin Rico, in the form of his beautiful pen and ink drawings, reproduced in a volume titled: Pen Drawing and Pen Draughtsmen: A Classic Survey of the Medium and Its Masters. Rico’s pen drawings, like his paintings, were often of architectural subjects,…