Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Stewart Burgess White
I met watercolorist Stewart White at the recent Wayne Plein Air Festival here in Southeastern Pennsylvania, where he was drawn to the architectural elements of the town’s 19th century train station. White’s background in architectural illustration gives his work a solid geometric underpinning and lends his loose application of washes a pleasing graphic strength. White…
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Oil Painters of America National Exhibition 2013
Oil Painters of America is a national organization of artists dedicated to representational art. Each year, among other regional exhibitions and events, they conduct a juried exhibition. This year’s exhibition, consisting of some 200 works, is currently on display at the Insight Gallery in Fredericksburg, Texas until June 17, 2013. There is a page devoted…
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Martin Johnson Heade
Nineteenth century American painter Martin Johnson Heade painted landscapes, seascapes, still life and the occasional portrait, but is best known for his paintings of tropical birds, particularly hummingbirds, perched amid orchids and other exotic flowers. These he painted in almost diorama-like compositions, usually set against backgrounds of mist shrouded tropical forest. The overall effect is…
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Eye Candy for Today: Lerolle’s Organ Rehearsal
The Organ Rehearsal, Henry Lerolle In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use Fullscreen link and zoom or download arrow.
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Jeremy Deveraturda
Jeremy Deveraturda is an illustrator and digital painter who studied at the School of Visual Arts in NYC, and moved from his initial love of watercolor into the appealing freedom of digital art. His light-filled digital seascapes and landscapes have something of the feeling of gouache, and display his admiration for artists like Sorolla and…
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Durer’s Great Piece of Turf
Like his remarkable Hare, Albrecht Durer’s study in watercolor, pen and ink of a clump of earth containing an assortment of wild plants, known as the Great Piece of Turf, is a remarkable example of the artist’s penetrating powers of observation and brilliant rendering. Like his Hare, the Great Piece of Turf has become one…