Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Constable’s Salisbury Cathedral
Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop’s Garden, John Constable Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Frick Collection, NY. Constable painted the Salisbury Cathedral a number of times, from several different points of view. This view is the most familiar, and is deservedly one of…
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The Frick Collection, NYC
I was in New York over the weekend and I took the opportunity to visit the Frick Collection, which I haven’t been to for a few years (it’s often hard for me to get past the Met and the Morgan Library to other museums when I’m in NYC). The Frick is based on the collection…
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Eye Candy for Today: Heinrich Böhmer Landscape with Deer
Landscape with Deer, Heinrich Böhmer Link is to The Greatest of Art blog; there is another copy of the image on The Golden Kite Forum. I don’t know the location of the original. Turn of the century German landscape painter Heinrich Böhmer had a wonderful touch with atmospheric perspective in his woodland interiors. I love…
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Eye Candy for Today: Leighton’s Perseus and Andromeda
Perseus and Andromeda, Frederic Leighton Link is to a zoomable version on the Google Art Project; there is a downloadable version on Wikipedia, which also has a descriptive page for the painting; the original is in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. There is a tendency to think of heroes and dragons fantasy as a recent…
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Mary Sprague (update)
Mary Sprague is an artist based in St. Louis who I first covered back in 2010, and who works in ink, paint, pastel, wood and clay. Her website emphasizes her large scale drawings of chickens, done in pastel, charcoal and mixed media; there is also a series of images of rhinos in a mix of…
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Eye Candy for Today: John O’Connor cityscape
Ludgate, Evening; John O’Connor Link is to image on Wikimedia Commons. The original was auctioned through Sotheby’s in 2012, so I assume it’s in a private collection. Not ony is this a deftly handled complex composition with a wonderful sense of scale and distance, it’s also a fascinating use of low-chroma complementary colors.