Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Arturo Noci
Arturo Noci was an Italian painter active in the early to mid 20th century. He painted landscapes in the Divisionist style, a post-Impressionist style that focused on the separation of colors into individual dots — similar to Pointilism — but that were intended to be blended optically. In the later part of his career, he…
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Eye Candy for Today: Francis Seymour Hayden etching
The Lovers’ Walk, No. 1, Francis Seymour Hayden, etching and drypoint, roughly 9 x 13″ (23 x34 cm); in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, look for both download and zoom links under the image. This deceptively simple etching by the British painter and printmaker (active in the late 19th and early 20th…
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Alfred de Breanski
Alfred de Breanski was a British painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He painted a variety of landscape subjects, but his clear preference was for mountains. You will sometimes see him listed as Alfred de Breanski Sr., because his son was also a painter.
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Eye Candy for Today: Vermeer’s Geographer
The Geographer, Johannes Vermeer, oil on canvas, roughly 18×20 inches(45 x 51 cm). Link is to zoomable version on the Google Art Project, downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Staedel Museum, Germany. Twenty six years ago this month, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC debuted a most remarkable exhibition of…
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Drawings of Andrew Fisher Brunner
Andrew Fisher Brunner was an American artist active in the late 19th century. He is noted for his landcape watercolors and for his drawings, particularly those in pen and ink. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a nice collection of his drawings, visible online in reasonably large images. Many of these are of Venice. He…
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Eye Candy for Today: Levitan’s Birch Grove
Birch Grove, by Isaac Levitan, oil on paper mounted to canvas, roughly 12 x 20 inches (30 x 50 cm). Link is to image page on WikiArt (click “View all Sizes” for access to large image); original is in the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. This is a beautiful and widely recognized landscape painting by the brilliant…