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Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Harold Knight

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    Harold Knight was an English painter active in the late 19th end early 20th centuries, and the husband of noted painter Laura Knight (née Laura Johnson), who he met when both were art students. Harold Knight was known as a portraitist and genre painter. I find his formal portraits of men to be well executed…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Peder Mønsted’s Sunlit Winter Landscape

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    Sunlit Winter Landscape, Peder Mørk Mønsted, oil on canvas, 28 x 39 inches (72 x 98 cm); Link is to Bukowski’s auctions, large version can be found here. Another beautiful winter scene Danish painter Peder Mørk Mønsted, who I count as one of my favorite landscape painters. I love the suggestion of a delicate tracery…

  • Martina Krupičková

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    Martina Krupičková is a czech painter who focuses on landscape and cityscape. Her website is in both Czech and English, with the English paragraphs right after the Czech ones. Krupičková paints with painting knives. By varying her marks, she avoids the uniform sameness I sometimes see in paintings done entirely with a painting knife. She…

  • 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…