Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Auguste Lepere etching
Old Housea at Amiens, Auguste Lepère, etching. This is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in DC, which has a high resolution downloadable and zoomable image file. For some reason, they don’t list the etching’s physical size. My guess from the size of the needle marks would be around 5×7″ (13 x…
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Eye Candy for today: Jean-Etienne Liotard pastel portrait
Portrait of Maria Frederike van Reede-Athlone at Seven Years of Age, Jean-Étienne Liotard, pastel on vellum, 22 x 18 in. (55 x 45 cm), in the collection of the Getty. 18th century Swiss artist Jean-Étienne Liotard gives a beautiful demonstration of the sensitivity and finess possible in pastel. There is a subtle teture throughout, likely…
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Eye Candy for Today: Egyptian encaustic portrait
Portrait of the Boy Eutyches, Egypt, Roman Period, encaustic on wood panel, 15 x 8 in. (38 x 19 cm), in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. What appears at first glance to be a sophisticated contemporary oil portrait, is, in fact, an encaustic painting that is roughly 2,000 years old. Painted in…
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Eye Candy for Today: Charles Ethan Porter watercolor still life
Still Life with Corn, Charles Ethan Porter; watercolor on paper, 11 x 17 in, (27 x 43 cm); in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Though watercolor and gouahe are common in botanical art, they are infrequently usesd for still life paintings. There’s something I particularly like about those that I’m familiar with,…
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Granville Redmond (revisited)
Originally from Philadelphia, Granville Redmond became prominent as a California Impressionist, bringing the ideas of the Frensh Impressionists to the California countryside. Like the French Impressionists, and their American east coast contemporaries, the California Impressionists painted on location, looking to capture the visual effects of light and color in the landscape. Redmond was fascinated, in…
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Eye Candy for Today: Durer ink drawing
An Eastern Ruler Seated on His Throne. Albrecht Durer, pen and black ink on paper, 12 x 8 inches (31 x 20 cm), in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, DC. Durer was a master of painting, graphics and, of course, drawing. In this wonderful ink drawing, his command of line, hatching and…