Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Samuel Prout pencil drawing
The Castle at Heidelberg, Samuel Prout Pencil on paper, roughly 11 x 16″ (28 x 43 cm); in the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum. 19th century artist Samuel Prout give us one of those wonderful drawings that is simultaneously loose and precise, and shows us something of the process of its creation in…
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Eye Candy for Today: Joaquim Vancells, “February”
February, Joaquim Vancells Oil on canvas, roughly 40 x 60 inches (104 x 155 cm) Link is to zoomable image on Google Art Project, downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya. Catalonian painter Joaquim Vancells invites us into a quiet forest landscape in the heart of winter. I…
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Skip Whitcomb
Colorado painter Skip Whitcomb was trained in figure study and illustration at the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, but when he turned his attention to painting full time, he found his inspiration in landscape. His paintings revel in the light and textures of the visual world, rendered in both oil and pastel.…
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Eye Candy for Today: Paul Sandby gouache nocturne
Windsor Castle from Drachet Lane on a rejoicing night, Paul Sandby Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project, downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Royal Collection Trust. Gouache on paper, roughly 12 x 18 inches (31 x 46 cm). The Google Art Project page has some interesting background on the…
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Eye Candy for Today: Constable graphite drawing
View of Cat Hanger, John Constable Graphite on paper, roughly 8 x 14″ (20 x35 cm), in the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum. Drawn on two sheets of a sketchbook, this scene is of a farm on an estate in West Sussex, England. Constable’s nuanced command of tones and delicate indications of clouds…
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Berthe Morisot
Berthe Morisot (pronunciation here) is one of the least well known of the original Impressionist painters. She is often grouped with American painter Mary Cassatt as one of the two “female Impressionists”. It is a comparison that makes sense, though, in that both painters brought intimate domestic scenes into the Impressionist canon, as well as…