Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Leyendecker turkey SEP cover
Thanksgiving cover for The Saturday Evening Post, November 26, 1927, J.C. Leyendecker Link is to the largest image of this painting I could find, which is on Pinterest. If that doesn’t work for you, try this one. Another wonderful holiday cover for The Saturday Evening Post by the brilliant American illustrator J.C. Leyendecker. I love…
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Eye Candy for Today: Alma-Tadema’s Pheidias and the Frieze of the Parthenon
Pheidias and the Frieze of the Parthenon, Lawrence Alma-Tadema; oil on wood panel, roughly 28 x 44 inches (72 x 110 cm); link is to the file page on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the collection of Birmingham Museums, UK. Also known as Phidias Showing the Frieze of the Parthenon to his Friends, Alma-Tadema’s painting…
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James Skvarch (update)
James Skvarch is an artist I featured back in 2007. He is primarily a printmaker working in traditional methods of etching. He uses to advantage the characteristics of etching that allow for delicate lines and hatching for tones. When printed on cream or off-white paper, these provide a visually appealing controlled contrast. His website galleries…
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Eye Candy for Today: Eyvind Earle trees
I don’t know the title or the size of this serigraph by ex illustrator and former Disney background artist turned gallery artist Eyvind Earle. I just know it’s wonderful. I love the exaggerated atmospheric perspective, the trademark stylization of the trees, the splashes of light across the trees and shrubs and the perspective imparted by…
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Eye Candy for Today: Levitan’s bridge at Savvinskaya Sloboda
Bridge. Savvinskaya Sloboda; Isaac Ilyich Levitan; oil on canvas, roughly 10 x 11 inches (25 x 29 cm). Link is to the file page on Wikimedia Commons; the original is in the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, though the gallery does not include it among the Levitan pieces from their collection that they display online. I…
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Blair Atherholt
Blair Atherholt is a painter whose approach to still life combines modern sensibilities with traditions from the “Golden Age” of 17th Dutch still life. Many of his compositions feature dark backgrounds and strong chiaroscuro in the definition of objects, as well as attention to “lost and found” edges. He departs from those traditions in his…