Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Edwin Deakin
At the age of 18, when his family emigrated from England to the United States, Edwin Deakin was already established as a landscape painter. 17 years later, in 1873, he left his adopted home in San Francisco and traveled back across the Atlantic, painting in England, France and Switzerland and exhibiting in the prestigious Paris…
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Eye Candy for Today: Hubert von Herkomer’s Miss May Miles
Miss May Miles, Hubert von Herkomer I have not seen the original of this painting, but my experience with comparing art images on the web with their originals — in the case of paintings I have seen in person — gives me the impression that some well-intentioned but misguided individual along the way has increased…
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Eye Candy for Today: Homer’s A Basket of Clams
A Basket of Clams, Winslow Homer, watercolor and gouache, roughly 11 x 10 inches (29 x 25 cm). In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has both zoomable and downloadable versions of the image available. The museum lists the materials of this early watercolor by Homer as simply “watercolor on wove paper”.…
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Eye Candy for the Summer Solstice: Walter Moras, Summer Idyll
Summer Idyll (Sommeridylle), Walter Moras, oil on canvas, roughly 31 x 47 inches (80 x 120 cm) Link is to a page on Wikimedia Commons that offers a large file; I don’t know the location of the original. German landscape painter Walter Moras (active n the late 19th and early 20th centuries) gives us a…
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More portraits of artists’ fathers
More portraits of artists’ fathers. For more see my previous post: Portraits of the artist’s father. (Images above, [links are to relevant Lines and Colors posts]: Ilya Repin, Herbert Drouais, Jenny Fay, Anna Klumpke, Andrew James, Paul Cezanne, Antonio Mancini, Marcel Duchamp, John Singer Sargent)
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Eye Candy for Today: Dante Gabriel Rossetti graphite portrait
Portrait of Mrs. William Morris, née Jane Burden, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, graphite on paper, roughly 13 x 11″ (33 x 29 cm). In the Morgan Library and Museum, which has both zoomable and downloadable versions of the image on their site. I’m intrigued, in this drawing, by the Art-Nouveau influenced curves of the outlines, and…