Category: Gallery and Museum Art

Hans Versfelt is a painter in the Netherlands who paints from life, either plein air or on-location interiors. His paintings have that kind of clear immediacy, tactile brushwork and fresh color that is often associated with the practice of painting on location. Versfrelt portrays the landscape, canals, boats, farmland, towns, bridges and even windmills of…

When I first wrote about American painter and illustrator John White Alexander in 2006, not many image resources were available. Since then, the internet has done that which it does best, grown at an incredible rate, and several additional sources of images for this wonderful painter have appeared, and I’ve collected some of them below;…

Oswald Achenbach was a 19th Century German landscape painter who found his greatest inspiration in italy, in particular in the area around the Bay of Naples, with it’s dramatic vistas of Mt. Vesuvius, and Rome and its environs. He found drama in landscapes and cities of Southern Italy as well as the daily lives the…

Painter Peter Van Dyck studied at Wesleyan University and at the Florence Academy of Art, and is currently a member of the faculty of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. His academic background shows in his dynamically balanced compositions, superbly handled color and refined draftsmanship. Though his subjects include portraits and still life, he…

I’m not always appreciative of floral subjects in paintings, too often they focus on the pretty at the expense of the beautiful. Dyana E. Hesson is an artist who was born in California and is now living in Arizona, where she earned her degree in art from Arizona State University. She paints floral and botanical…