Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Young Girl Carrying a Pumpkin, Fausto Zonaro
Young Girl Carrying a Pumpkin, Fausto Zonaro Link is to zoomable file on Google Art Project; there is also a downloadable version of that file on Wikimedia Commons. The original is in the Sakıp Sabancı Museum in Istanbul, Turkey. The museum also has a zoomable version of the file, but it looks over-saturated to me.…
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Beautiful “rediscovered” Constable
Dedham Vale With The River Stour In Flood From The Grounds Of Old Hall, East Bergholt, John Constable We’re fortunate that so much of the world’s great art is currently in museums and public collections. Works in private collections can often go unseen by the public for decades, or even hundreds of years. From time…
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Eye Candy For Today: Leon Bonvin’s Basket of Apples
Still Life: Basket of Apples, Pear, Walnuts and Knife; Léon Bonvin Original is in the Waters Art Museum, which has both a zoomable and downloadable file. There is also a zoomable image on Google Art Project and a downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, though the one on the Walters’ site is larger. Another beautiful and…
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Mark Reep (update)
Mark Reep is an artist based near Pittsburgh who I first profiled back in 2006. His dreamlike, enigmatic imaginary landscapes are rendered monochromatically in graphite, charcoal and ink. His monochromatic approach seems to heighten the sense of mystery, as textural rock faces, towers and islands emerge from mist and fog, their exact boundaries obscured. His…
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John Grabach
Growing up in Delaware and living for many years in southeastern Pennsylvania, I’ve become familiar with most of the historic regional schools of painting from this part of the eastern seaboard, like the Brandywine School, the New Hope School (otherwise known as the Pennsylvania Impressionists), the Hudson River School, the Ashcan School and others in…
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Eye Candy For Today: Paul Sandby gouache of Queen Elizabeth Gate
Queen Elizabeth Gate, Paul Sandby Link is to zoomable image on Google Art Project; downloadable high-res file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Yale Center for British Art. Gouache and watercolor on paper, roughly 14 x 18 inches (36 x 47 cm). A wonderful effect of being precise without being stiff. Sandby appears to…