Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Fred Danziger (update)
Originally from Pittsburgh, Fred Danziger is a Philadelphia based painter whose work I have long admired, and who I wrote about previously in 2012. Danziger’s subject matter ranges from cityscapes, rich with city lights and city dwellers, to contemplative landscapes, so calm as to seem as far away from the bustle of the city as…
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Eye Candy for Today: William Holman Hunt watercolor still life
Still Life with Plums, William Holman Hunt Watercolor on paper, roughly 12 x 14 inches (30 x 37 cm); in the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum. (Zoomable and downloadable versions of the image are available on the site.) A beautiful and sensitively observed still life by the Pre-Raphaelite master. It appears to be…
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Russ Kramer
Connecticut based marine artist Russ Kramer focuses much of his work on the drama of historic yacht races, emphasizing the movement of water and vertiginous angles of the boats as they are lifted and tossed by the power of the waves. He has a touch for rendering roiled water in a way that feels palpable,…
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Eye Candy for Today: William Merritt Chase Shinnecock landscape
Landscape: Shinnecock, Long Island, William Merritt Chase Link is to the painting in the collection of the Princeton University Art Museum, which has zoomable and downloadable version of the image on their website. There is also a downloadable image on Wikimedia Commons. I have long been an admirer of the paintings of the 19th century…
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Sarah Paxton Ball Dodson
Sarah Paxton Ball Dodson was an American painter, active in the late 19th century, who was born in Philadelphia and studied there at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, as well as in Paris where she spent a notable portion of her career. Her style and subject matter ranged from influences of French neo-classical…
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Eye Candy for Today: Early Autumn, Montclair by George Inness
Early Autumn, Montclair, George Inness The link is to a zoomable version on the Google Art Project; there is a high-resolution downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons; the original is in the Delaware Art Museum (which unfortunately doesn’t have its collection online, though there is more on the Google Art Project). This is one of my…