Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Frank Brangwyn’s swans
The Swans, Frank Brangwyn. I don’t know the size or present location. The image is from William Morris Gallery, posted during an exhibit; large image here. Like many art images, you will see versions of this one on the internet in which someone has put it into an image editor and cranked up the saturation…
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Eye Candy for Today: Idyllic Walter Moras Landscape
Spreewald Village in Autumn, Walter Moras. Oil on canvas, 24 x 39 in, ( 60 x 100 cm). Link is to MutualArt, larger image on GoodFon. Yes, I know it can initially look a bit, um… picturesque (and yes, I know there are ducks), but I like it. The more I look at the large…
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Color woodcuts by Émile Antoine Verpilleux
Émile Antoine Verpilleux was an English-Belgian artist active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Though also a painter, he was noted for his color woodcuts with their subtle but striking use of atmospheric perspective. He seems to treat the layers of distance in his images as distinct planes, almost like a stage set.
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Eye Candy for Today: Andrew Wyeth drybrush watercolor
Noah’s Ark Study, Andrew Wyeth, drybrush watercolor on paper. Original is in the collection of the Wyeth Foundadion for American Art, I don’t know the size. Image is referenced from a page on the site of the local PBS affiliate, WHYY. The full size image is here. Starting in 2023, the Brandywine Museum of Art…
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Eye Candy for Today: Christian Molsted canal scene
The Canal at Holmes Bridge, Christian Mlested, oi on canvas, roughly 38 x 34 inches ( 96 x 87 cm). Image is sourced from Wikipedia. This painting was auctioned in 2011; I assume it’s currently in a private collection. Danish painter Christian Molsted, who was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, gives…
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A Fresh Look: Botticelli’s Venus (reversed)
When painting or sketching, artists will often use a mirror to briefly reverse their view of a work that is difficult to see objectively because it has become too familiar from time spent working on it. I enjoy applying that same idea to works of art that have become so iconic and familiar they are…