Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Sterling Clinton Hundley: emergent
Sterling Hundley is a Virginia based painter and illustrator whose award winning illustrations were the subject of a previous Lines and Colors post in 2007. Hundley has embarked on a new direction as a gallery artist, the initial debut of which will be a solo show at Ghostprint Gallery in Richmond from September 4th to…
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Vermeer’s Milkmaid in New York
It’s not that often that I get excited about the the occasion of a single painting crossing the Atlantic Ocean, except for those occasions when it happens to be one of the finest paintings by one of history’s finest painters, and particularly if that painter is Johannes Vermeer. Celebrating the 400th anniversary of the historic…
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Diane Hoeptner
As much as I enjoy flowers in their natural setting, or even in a vase, and despite my fondness for still life painting, I have to admit that florals are not among my favorite subjects for paintings. There are exceptions, of course, in which the subject is handled in unusual ways, but direct close-up paintings…
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Edvard Munch
Norwegian symbolist Edvard Munch is another of those artists, like Whistler or even Hokusai, whose oeuvre is condensed to a single image in the minds of most people, in this case his iconic image The Scream. There are actually several versions of The Scream, including both paintings and prints, more than one of which have…
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Sadie J. Valeri
Value, the quality of light or dark in a tone or color, is one of the most undervalued, misunderstood and vitally important aspects of painting. Sadie J. Valeri is a contemporary realist painter who has followed a fascination with value into a series of challenging still life subjects in which wax paper, a humble household…
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Count Amadeo Preziosi
In the 19th Century a number of European artists, and many American artists, traveled to destinations in what we in Europe and the U.S. would now call the “Middle East”, staying for months or even years, returning home with paintings of exotic cities, landscapes and costumed figures that were immensely popular (see my post on…