Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • Eye Candy for Today: Sargent travel watercolor

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    Simplon Pass: The Tease, John Singer Sargent Link is to zoomable image on Google Art Project; there is a downloadable high-res file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Watercolor over graphite sketch, with gouache and the use of wax resist; roughly 16 x 21 inches (40 x 53 cm).…

  • Ivan Endogurov

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    Ivan Endogurov was a Russian painter active in the late 19th century. He initially entered the study of law at St Petersburgh University, but after taking private lessons in painting he changed to that pursuit full time, concentrating on landscape. I couldn’t find much in the way of available image resources for Endogurov, but there…

  • Eye Candy for today: Corot Fontainebleau landscape

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    Forest of Fontainebleau, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Link is to zoomable image on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; Original is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Corot entered this painting in the Paris Salon of 1846, and it became the first officially recognized pure landscape in French painting — without historical or mythological subject…

  • Toshi Yoshida

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    Toshi Yoshida was a Japanese woodblock printmaker and the son of renowned printmaker Hiroshi Yoshida. Toshi Yoshida was active in the 20th century and was associated with the sōsaku-hanga (“creative prints”) movement, in which artists carve and print their own blocks — as contrasted with the shin-hanga (“new prints”) movement that continued the traditional practice…

  • Karl J. Kuerner

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    I had the opportunity this fall to take advantage of a one of the Plein Air Painting Days sponsored by the Brandywine River Museum, that gives artists the opportunity to paint at Kuerner Farm in Chadds Ford, PA. The farm is famous as the location for many of Andrew Wyeth’s most recognizable works, and is…

  • Ernst Graner

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    Ernst Graner was and Austrian painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Graner painted genre scenes and landscapes, but is best known for his deftly rendered views of architecture and city scenes, particularly in Vienna. In the larger images available on the web, you can see that for all the detail and…