Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Thaulow’s Water Mill
I’m happy to say that after several months of being relegated to the stacks, one of my favorite paintings is back on display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art: Water Mill by Frits Thaulow. I don’t think anyone handles the reflections, translucency and surface motion of small streams better than Thaulow. Unfortunately, the museum’s page…
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Eye Candy for Today: Hassam Winter scene
Late Afternoon, New York, Winter by Childe Hassam. A marvel of suggestion by a primier American Impressionist. In the Brooklyn Museum. Click “Download”, then pick your size. See my 2006 post on Childe Hassam.
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Eye Candy for Today: Choosing, Watts
Dame Alice Ellen Terry (Choosing), George Frederick Watts. On Wikimedia Commons, title page here. Original is in the National Portrait Gallery, London. A little Victorian morality play, choosing between the camellias, which are dramatically beautiful but don’t have a strong scent — representing worldly pursuits, and the violets, more subdued in appearance, but with a…
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David Cunningham (update)
Since I first wrote about painter David H. Cunningham back in 2007, his web presence has been expanded and improved, and his work has continued to evolve, particularly into a new series involving arrangements of stones. My initial impression of his work, however, remains unchanged. Though you may look at reproductions of his paintings and…
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John F. Francis
Though he started his career as a portrait painter, Philadelphia born artist John Francis is primarily known for the still life paintings of his later career. These, mostly of fruit and desserts, varied from complex formal arrangements, sometimes against the backdrop of a partial landscape, to simple compositions of only a few objects. Francis was…
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Eye Candy for Today: Tissot interior
In the Conservatory, James Tissot. See my post on James Jacques Joseph Tissot.