Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Charles Gifford Dyer still life
Seventeenth-Century Interior, Charles Gifford Dyer Oil on canvas, roughly 37 x 28 inches (94 x 71 cm), in the collection of the Art Institute Chicago This is a nineteenth century American artist painting a still life in the manner of seventeenth century Dutch still life — and doing a bang up job of it.
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Eye Candy for Today: Nicolas Delaunay engraving after Fragonard
The Happy Accident of the Swing, Nicolas Delaunay Engraving, roughly 20 x 16″ (51 x 42 cm); in the collection of the Art Institute Chicago This wonderfully lush and textural engraving by Nicolas Delaunay is a copy of a famous painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. It was not uncommon for painters to have printmakers create copies…
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Image trove from the Art Institute of Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago, one of the largest art museums in the U.S., has redesigned its website, and in the process, placed online a trove of over 50,000 large scale images of works from the collection. They have done so under a “CC0” license, meaning public domain or “No Rights Reserved”, so you are…
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Eye Candy for Today: Burne-Jones’s Mirror of Venus
The Mirror of Venus, Edward Burne-Jones Link is to Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon. Pre-Raphaelite painter Edward Burne-Jones, who went on to be a major figure in style known as Aestheticism, presents a tableau of female figures, some staring at their reflections in the mirror of a still pond, others…
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Baumgartner painting restoration videos
If, like me, you find the conservation and restoration of historic artworks interesting, you will probably enjoy this series of videos (YouTube link) from Baumgartner Fine Art Restoration, a conservation studio located in Chicago. In the video from which I’ve shown some example images, above, we see the restoration of a badly torn portrait by…
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Eye Candy for today: Ivan Shishkin graphite drawing
Trees by the Stream, Ivan Shishkin Link is to the image page on The Athenaeum, direct link to the large image here. Original is in the Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts, St. Petersburg. The drawing is in graphite. I don’t have the dimensions. Like many of the great landscape painters, 19th century Russian…