Category: Gallery and Museum Art

Linda Tracey Brandon is an Arizona based painter who works in portraiture, figurative subjects, landscape and still life. Work on her website is divided into those sections, along with a section of oil portrait sketches. You will also find sketches, works in progress and other related topics on Brandon’s blog. Her figurative work has an…

Steven J. Levin is a contemporary American realist painter based in Minnesota. The galleries on his website are divided into Figures & Interiors and Still Life, though within those topics he works in a variety of subjects and approaches. There are often repeated themes, however, of restaurant, museum and poolroom interiors and still life arrangements…

Edmund Charles Tarbell was the primary founder of the “Boston School” of American Impressionism, one of the most important of the painters called American Impressionists, and to my mind, one of the great American painters in general. Since I last wrote about Tarbell back in 2006, many more resources have become available for viewing his…

Phil Starke is an artist who brings a bright, painterly sensibility to his portrayals of the landscape of the American West and Southwest. Starke was exposed to European art as a boy while his military family lived in Germany. He later studied at the American Academy of Art in Chicago, and was drawn to the…

Dutch painter Rachel Ruysch, whose life and career straddled the seventeenth and eighteeth centuries, was renowned for her striking still life paintings of flowers, which occasionally featured fruit and crystal glassware. Very often they featured insects as well, perhaps either to make them more true to nature or to intimate that the flowers and fruits…