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Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Ernst Grillhiesl (“ErnstG”)

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    Ernst Grillhiesl, who signs his work “ErnstG”, is a contemporary German painter who works in watercolor. His landscape subjects usually include architectural elements, often set almost on the horizon with a deep but de-emphasized foreground. Grillhiesl’s style is a combination of crisp, precise rendering of buildings and other artificial objects and a looser, somewhat softer…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer

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    Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (also sometimes called “Woman in Gold” or “Lady in Gold”), Gustav Klimt; gold leaf, silver leaf, and oil on canvas; 55 x 55 inches (140 x 140 cm); in the collection of the Neue Galerie, New York. Link is to the file page for the Neue Galerie version of the…

  • Charles Leickert (revisited)

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    Belgian born 19th century painter Charles Henri Joseph Leickert spent most of his career living and painting in the Netherlands. He is noted for his winter scenes, particularly of activity on frozen rivers, and his cityscapes, rich with the textures of brick and stone. When I first featured Leickert on Lines and Colors back in…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Robert Spear Dunning still life

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    Still life with Orange and Plum, Robert Spear Dunning; oil on canvas, roughly 8 x 10″ (20 x 25 cm); link is to image file page on Wikimedia Commons; as far as I know, the original is in a private collection. 19th century American painter Robert Spear Dunning gives us an elegantly simple painting of…

  • Deborah Paris

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    Deborah Paris it a painter based in Texas who works in a tonalist manner — with controlled palettes, restrained values and soft edges — though she sometimes incorporates more directly naturalistic elements and occasionally works with a brighter palette. Her favored subjects are woodlands, streams and fields, painted with a sensitive eye to mood, atmosphere…

  • A few paintings from 1880

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    The late 19th century is one of my favorite periods for art. Not only were a great many of my favorite artists active in that time but I’m constantly discovering artists from the period who are wonderful and new to me. Wikimedia Commons, that cornucopia of images provided by the Wikimedia Foundation, has a number…