Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Charlie Hunter
When walking around during the recent Wayne Plein Air Festival here in Southeastern Pennsylvania, looking for painters working in the streets of the town (and feeling a bit like a birder searching for rare species, as many of the participants had found off the beaten path locations to paint), I came across Vermont artist Charlie…
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New website for National Gallery of Art
The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. is one of the great art museums in the U.S., and a national treasure on which I am happy to see my tax dollars spent. The NGA has long had a web presence, but it has never been quite what those of us who admire the museum’s…
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Eye Candy for Today: Van Dyck double portrait
Lady Elizabeth Thimbelby and her Sister, Anthony van Dyck In the National Gallery, London. Use fullscreen and zoom controls to the right of the image. You can zoom in even further than I have here. Van Dyck dazzles with his masterful rendering of fabric, flesh and hair. I love the way he has positioned and…
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Eye Candy for Today: Van Walscapelle still life
Still Life with Fruit and Oysters, Jacob van Walscapelle Show-off. From Museo Lázaro Galdiano on Google Art Project. Click in lower right of image for zoom controls.
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Eye Candy for Today: Paul Weber pencil drawing
Forest Scene, Paul Weber Roughly 6×5″ (15x12cm). In the Walters Art Museum. Click “Explore Object” in upper left of image for zoomable version.
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Kenne Gregoire
Kenne Gregoire is a Dutch painter who is showing his work in the U.S. for the first time in an exhibition that opens today at the Arcadia Gallery in New York. (Note that the link given will change to the next current exhibition after 6/1/13. After that you may still be able to access the…