Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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On Beauty and the Everyday: The Prints of James McNeill Whistler
I’ve written before about the beautiful etchings of James McNeill Whistler, whose work as an etcher is even less well known than his paintings. On Beauty and the Everyday: The Prints of James McNeill Whistler is a new exhibition opening this Saturday, August 21, 2010, at the University of Michigan Museum of Art, which has…
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Sebastian Krüger
Well along in a successful career as a designer and illustrator, German artist Sebastian Krüger began focusing on painting highly exaggerated caricature portraits of pop and music stars, particularly the Rolling Stones who he had met early in his career. Since 2005 he has abandoned commercial work and devoted himself to gallery painting. As he…
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Colin Campbell Cooper
Colin Campbell Cooper was an American impressionist painter active in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. He was, within that rather loose classification, the foremost among them in the portrayal of architecture. He is also one of my personal favorites. Known for both his later paintings of California gardens and landmarks, as well as…
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The Brooklyn Museum
It has often been pointed out that the borough of Brooklyn, if it were not part of New York City, would stand on its own as one of the largest metropolitan areas in the U.S., perhaps 4th or 5th largest. Like most American cities of that size, Brooklyn has a world class art museum. Unlike…
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Restoring Eakins’ The Gross Clinic
Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross, more commonly referred to as The Gross Clinic, is a painting with a history. The painting is regarded as the masterpiece in the oeuvre of Thomas Eakins, who was in turn considered the greatest American painter of his time. The painting has been described as the most important American…
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Postcard from Provence: Paintings by Julian Merrow-Smith
Once upon a time, there was an English painter who moved to Provence, a part of southern France long associated with artists seeking the colors nature might reveal to them in the region’s legendary sunlight. This painter was not working in the time of the Barbizon School and the Impressionists, however, but in the blossoming…