Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Edward Robert Hughes
Edward Robert Hughes was a Victorian painter at the periphery of the Pre-Raphaelite circle, and was the nephew of the painter Arthur Hughes. Edward Hughes was for a time a studio assistant to William Holman Hunt, and is credited for having worked on some of the elder artist's best known works, including Lady of Shallot…
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Eye Candy for Today: Tarbell’s Across the Room
Across the Room, Edmund Charles Tarbell. In Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use Fullscreen link and Download arrow. See my previous posts on Edmund Tarbell, and here. He must have considered this a “sketch”, but… wow.
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Eye Candy for Today: Turner’s Ulysses
Ulysses deriding Polyphemus — Homer’s Odyssey by Joseph Mallord William Turner In the National Gallery, London. Use fullscreen and zoom controls to right of the image.
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Julius LeBlanc Stewart
Like his contemporary John Singer Sargent, Julius LeBlanc Stewart was an American artist who spent most of his career in France. Stewart was a student of Jean-Léon Gérôme at the École des Beaux Arts, and his work was regularly accepted to the Paris Salon. Like another painter of his time, James Jacques Joseph Tissot (a…
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At the Edge, Allentown Art Museum
There is currently a spectacular exhibition at the Allentown Art Museum in Allentown, PA called At the Edge that combines some of the finest contemporary fantastic art with some superb examples of art from the 19th century that is part of the legacy on which the contemporary genre is based, and puts one in context…
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Stapleton Kearns
Stapleton Kearns is a landscape painter based in New England. When I first encountered his work some years ago (it can take me a while to get to these posts, folks), I felt it had a nice feeling of being influenced by early 20th century American landscape painters like John Fabian Carlson and, to a…