Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Summer Bloom by Joaquim Vayreda
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…
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Robert S. Duncanson
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…
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Eye Candy for Today: Henry Tanner’s Flight Into Egypt
Flight Into Egypt, Henry Ossawa Tanner Oil on canvas, roughly 29 x 26 inches (74 x 66 cm). Link is to a reasonably large file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Metropolitian Museum of Art As he did in many of his biblically themed canvasses, Tanner brings to bear his uncanny touch with light…
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Edward Mitchell Bannister
Edward Mitchell Bannister was a Canadian-American painter active in the late 19h century. Born in New Brunswick, he emigrated to the U.S. — initially to Boston — and spent much of his life and career in Providence, Rhode Island. Though he painted a variety of subjects, Bannister is known primarily for his serene pastoral landscapes,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Bierstadt’s Mountain Brook
Mountain Brook, Albert Bierstadt Oil on canvas, roughly 44 x 36 in (12 x 92 cm), in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, whose site includes both a zoomable and downloadable version of the high-res image. German-American painter Albert Bierstadt, who is associated with both the Hudson River and Rocky Mountain schools of…
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Eye Candy for Today: Sorolla’s Sewing the Sail
Sewing the Sail, Joaquin Sorolla Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project, there is a large file here, as part of this article: https://arthive.com/exhibitions/3512 This beautiful painting by Spanish painter Joaquin Sorolla makes it easy to see why he is sometimes referred to as “master of light”.