Category: Gallery and Museum Art

Karl Paul Themistocles von Eckenbrecher (sometimes spelled Themistokles) was a German landscape and marine artist active in the late 19th and early 20 centuries. Born to a German Father and Italian mother while they were traveling in Athens, he he was largely schooled by private tutors as they traveled and moved often. The family eventually…

It has long been an established practice for artists to study the paintings and drawings of artists from the past by creating their own copies of the masters’ work. Ju Duoqi just happens to use vegetables as her medium. Her “Vegetable Museum” is a series in which she has arranged vegetables, fresh and otherwise, chosen…

Pennsylvania artist Barbara Kacicek favors a few subjects to which she returns frequently. One is small still life subjects, particularly pears, plums and smooth river stones. Another is compositions of clouds, often mounded and towering cumulus clouds. To these she adds drawings that veer away from realism into “Imaginary Realism”, done with smooth tones of…

Kenn Backhaus is a contemporary realist painter who is a Signature Member of Oil Painters of America and past president of Plein Air Painters of America. Backhaus was one of the painters featured in the 2007 PBS series Plein Air, Painting the American Landscape, and is instrumental in the independently produced series Passport and Palette,…

Since I wrote about Danish landscape painter Peder Mørk Mønsted (sometimes written as Peder Mørk Mønstead) two years ago, the wonderful World Wide Web has continued to do what it does best — grow at an astonishing rate, bringing with it the joy of even more resources on Mønsted’s work. Notably, Wikimedia Commons now has…