Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Whistler’s Nocturne: Blue and Silver – Chelsea
Nocturne: Blue and Silver – Chelsea, James Abbott McNeill Whistler; oil on wood, roughly 20 x 24″ (61 x 50cm) Link above is to Zoomable image on Google Art Project; original is in the Tate, London; downloadable large file on Wikimedia Commons. Whistler often titled his pieces in musical terms; many of his works are…
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Eye Candy for Today: Mucha’s Autumn
Autumn, Alphonse Mucha; color lithograph, roughly 40 x 21 inches (103 x 54cm) Image sourced from here; direct link here; info here. This is one of the panels from Mucha’s first and perhaps most successful series of decorative panels, The Seasons, which he created in 1896. This and Summer are my favorites from the series.…
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Charles Edward Hallé
Charles Edward Hallé was an English painter who studied in both England and France. He painted portraits, genre scenes and history scenes and was influenced by Neo-Classicism, Venetian art and the British Pre-Raphaelites. I haven’t found a great deal of work by Hallé on the web, but there is enough to be of interest.
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Mildred Anne Butler
Though she frequently traveled to England and the continent — and studied in Paris — Irish watercolorist Mildred Anne Butler primarily painted en plein air in the area around her home in Kilmurry. Butler was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and was a member of the Royal Academy and the Royal…
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Charles Edward Perugini
Charles Edward Perugini (Carlo Perugini) was an Italian/English painter of the Victorian era. Primarily a portraitist, he was a student of Frederic Leighton.
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Eye Candy for Today: Frits Thaulow river scene in France
Picquigny, Frits Thaulow, oil on canvas; roughly 29 x 36 inches (73 x 92 cm); in the collection fo the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY, which has a zoomable and downloadable version of the image. Norwegian painter Frits Thaulow has long been one of my favorite landscape painters. He was an absolute master of…