Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Degas’ Woman on a Sofa
Woman on a Sofa, thined oil paint with touches of pastel over graphite, roughly 19 x 17″ (49 x 43 cm). Link is to image on the Metropolitan Museum of Art website, which has both zoomable and downloadable images. The Met’s page for the piece indicates that it was not a preliminary work for another…
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Arvid Mauritz Lindström
Arvid Mauritz Lindström was a Swedish landscape painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He studied in Stockholm, Munich and Paris and lived in England for a number of years. His landscapes are richly textural and atmospherically evocative of time and place.
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Eye Candy for Today: still life from the Roman School
Still Life with Fruit on a Stone Ledge, Roman School, I have seen this beautiful still life at times attributed to Caravaggio (Michelangelo Marisi), or to a follower of his. Sotheby’s made no such direct claim when the painting passed through their auction house in 2013, referring to it instead as attributed to an unnamed…
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Eye Candy for Today: Max Klinger’s At the Gate
At the Gate (Am Thor), Max Klinger; etching and engraving; roughy 18 x 12″ (45 x 31 cm). Link is to the impression the collection of the National Gallery, DC, whih has both a downloadable and zoomable version of the image (and no longer requires an account to download high-res images). There is also a…
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Oscar Droege
Color woodblock prints don’t get as much attention in Europe and the U.S. as they do in Japan, but there are adherents of the art who produce beautiful work. Oscar Droege was a German printmaker and painter active in the early to mid 20th century. His prints are largely of landscapes, but also include ships,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Daniel Ridgway Knight’s An Idle Moment
An Idle Moment, Daniel Ridgway Knight, oil on canvas, roughly 37 x 47 inches (95 x 120 cm); link is to page for high res file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the High Museum of Art. American artist Daniel Ridgway Knight, who was active in the late 19th end early 20th centuries, spent much…