Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Artist Monograms and Signatures
An important but often overlooked aspect of creating a finished painting or drawing is the application of a signature by the artist. Simultaneously claiming authorship and declaring the work finished, signatures are a source of pride to some artists, and a necessary chore to others. Prized by collectors, to whom attribution is often more important…
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Stephen Scott Young
Stephen Scott Young is a renowned contemporary watercolorist and etcher whose works are in major collections and museums. Young was born in Hawaii, moved to Florida with his family at the age of 14, and studied printmaking at the Ringling School of Art in Sarasota. His watercolor technique, which frequently makes use of drybrush, is…
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Henri Le Sidaner
French painter and pastel artist Henri Le Sidaner (Eugéne Augustin) began academic training at the l’École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, briefly studying under Alexandre Cabanel, but soon rejected that pursuit in favor a fascination with the paths into broken color and light being blazed by the Impressionists. Le Sidaner is best known as an Intimist…
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William Wendt
In an essay for the Laguna Art Museum, Michael McManus referred to the wave of American painters who brought the influence of the French Impressionists to California in the early 20th Century as “Impressionism’s Indian Summer”. Impressionism flowered late in California because it was largely a remote area before the turn of the century. The…
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Jos van Riswick
Jos van Riswick is a contemporary Dutch still life painter, living in Nijmegen, Holland, and working in the general tradition of the Dutch still life painters of the past. Van Riswick is a self-taught painter, originally having studied and then taught physics. He started painting in an Impressionist style; but then, after becoming familiar with…
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Cupids. Allegory of Painting (François Boucher)
Is it love or is it art? Only François Boucher, that master of Rococo excess and dazzle, knew what his allegory of painting actually implied. It was meant to be matched with a companion painting, Cupids. Allegory of Poetry, for which I haven’t found a web based image. Cupids came to have meaning in allegorical…