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Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Marla Greenfield

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    Though she also paints landscapes, interiors and architectural subjects, Massachusetts based watercolor painter Marla Greenfield has a particular focus on still life and florals. Her still life subjects are often presented in compositions that bring them close and have a dynamic that sets parts of objects on the painting’s edge, partially out of view. If…

  • Auguste Toulmouche

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    Auguste Toulmouche was a French academic painter noted for his idealized portraits of high society women, arrayed in finery and posed, usually full length, amid sumptuous surroundings. For most of his career, Toulmouche was highly regarded and popular. He studied with Charles Gleyre, to whose atelier he would later recommend the young Claude Monet. Ironically,…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Theodore Rousseau landscape

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    The Edge of the Woods at Monts-Girard, Fontainebleau Forest, Théodor Rousseau, oil on wood, roughly 32 x 48 inches, (80 x 122 cm), in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has zoomable and downloadable versions of the high-res image. Rousseau was one of the primere painters of the Barbizon School, painting in…

  • Portraits of the artist’s father

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    Some portraits of artist’s fathers. (Images above, [links are to relevant Lines and Colors posts]: Albrecht Durer, Pablo Picasso, William Macgregor Paxton, M.C. Escher, Maarten van Heemskerck, Laura Knight, Nikolai Fechin, Rembrandt van Rijn, Jules Bastien Lepage)

  • Eye Candy for Today: Summer Bloom by Joaquim Vayreda

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    Summer Bloom by Joaquim Vayreda, roughly 52 x 104 inches (130 x 263 cm). Link is to Google Art Project; downloadable image on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Museu Nacional D’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona. We can start the summer with this beautifully idyllic pastoral scene by 19th century Spanish painter Joaquim Vayreda. The wide…

  • Robert S. Duncanson

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    Robert S. Duncanson might be the most significant American landscape painter you never heard of. There is even some confusion about his name and the national origin of his father. Referred to by critics in the early part of the 19th century as the “best landscape painter in the west”, Duncanson spent much of his…