Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Glenn Dean (update)
I first wrote about California artist Glenn Dean in 2010. Since then he has continued to add to his website portfolio more examples of his subtle, atmospheric evocations of the American West and the California coastline. His work is featured in a new solo show at the Maxwell Alexander Gallery in Culver City, CA, titled…
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Eye Candy for Today: Bonvin Birds
Birds Resting on Bushes, Léon Bonvin Watercolor with gouache and ink over graphite. In the Walters Art Museum. Click “Explore Object” in upper left for high-res version.
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Eye Candy for Today: Waterhouse’s Gather Rosebuds
Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, John William Waterhouse The title is from the famous first verse of Robert Herrick’s poem, “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time“: Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying. On Wikipaintings. Original is…
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Andrea J. Smith
Originally from Australia, Andrea J, Smith has studied and taught in the U.S. and Europe, and now lives in Rome where she founded and directs Atelier Canova. In addition to studies at the Florence Academy of Art, where she later became an instructor in drawing, she studied in the U.S. with Michael Aviano, Michael Grimaldi…
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Herbert James Draper
Herbert James Draper was a late Victorian / early 20th century artist who specialized for much of his career in mythological subjects. His most famous painting, The Lament for Icarus (above, top with detail) is in the Tate (high-resolution version on Google Art Project and Wikimedia Commons). Earlier in his career he was an illustrator.…
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Eye Candy for Today: Caravaggio’s Medusa
Medusa, Cagavaggio Merisi On the Google Art Project. Click in the lower right of the image for zoom controls. The original is in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Students of drawing and anatomy may feel, as I do, that the mouth of the Medusa is painted as if from a head that is facing the…