Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Charles Parks
Charles Parks was a well known and much loved sculptor familiar to many in the Brandywine Valley area of Delaware and Southeastern Pennsylvania. His works grace public buildings and spaces in the region and across the country. Parks was originally from Virginia, moved to Delaware with his family when he was young, and studied at…
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Eye Candy for Today: Fantin-Latour still life
Still Life with Flowers and Fruit, Henri Fantin-Latour. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Click on Fullscreen and use zoom or download arrow.
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Erik Tiemens and Terry Miura at Holton Studio Gallery
Sometimes I wish that flying from the east coast to the west coast was more convenient; if it was, I might be tempted to fly out to San Francisco just to see this show of small works by two painters I’ve featured previously on Lines and Colors, Erik Tiemens and Terry Miura. I’ve commented on…
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Eye Candy for Today: linear perspective tour de force by Carlo Crivelli
The Annunciation, with Saint Emidius, Carlo Crivelli. In the National Gallery, London. Use the fullscreen and zoom tools to the right of the image. There is also a large image on Wikimedia. The early 15th century saw both linear geometrical perspective construction and the medium of oil painting come into common use in European painting…
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Eye Candy for Today: Adolph Menzel watermedia
The Choirstalls in the Mainz Cathedral by Adolph Menzel. Watercolor and gouache. 8 7/8 x 11 3/8″ (22.6 x 28.9cm). In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use the “Fullscreen” link below the image and then zoom or download arrow.
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How to Ship Paintings on red dot blog
Jason Horejs is the owner of Xanadu Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona. In addition to running the gallery, Horejs provides art marketing advice from the point of view of a gallery owner — some of it dispensed freely through his red dot blog (named, if you didn’t catch it, for the small red dots that traditionally…