Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: James Tissot’s Japanese Scroll
The Japanese Scroll, James Tissot, oli on panel, roughly 15 x 2 in. (39 x 57 cm). Link is to image page on Wikimedia Commons, Original is in a private collection, image sourced form past Christie’s auction. The soft light, informal pose and seemingly mundane subject matter might tempt us to think of this as…
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Johan Abeling
Johan Abeling is a contemporary Dutvh painter who has taken the sensations of atmospheric perspective, mist and fog and made them the predominant motif of his paintings. He creates relatively simplified compositions, often of a few trees set againat what appear to be open fields. Abeling’s touch moves them into spaces of quiet contemplation and…
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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…