Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Hugo Birger park scene
Park scene from Sevilla, Hugo Birger, oil on panel, 10 x 16 in. (26 x 41 cm). Link os to past auction page on Bukowskis. In this small panel, !9th centiury Swedish painter Hugo Birger, who was likely influened by time he spent in the company of some of the Barbizon painters, paints a park…
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Marianne Stokes
Marianne Preindelsberger Stokes was an Austrian painter active in England in the late 19th eand early 20th centuries. Her work was primarily figurative. Though many of her paintings are in oil, in her later career she favored egg tempera (as in the Madonna and Child image at top). In these she took stylistic cues from…
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Eye Candy for Today: Ole RIng canal view
Canal View at Wilders Square, Ole Ring, oil on canvas, 24 x 30 in. (60 x 76 cm). Link is to Uno Langmann art dealers for a sold item. Presumably this is currently in a private collection. Danish painter Ole RIng, active in the early to mid 20th century, here takes a simple white boat,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Sargent’s portrait of Mrs. J.P. Morgan
Portrait of Mrs. J.P. Morgan, Jr. (nee Jane Norton Grew), John Singer Sargent, oil on canvas, 58 x 36 inches (147 x 91 cm), in the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum, NY. The Morgan Library’s collection centers on rare books and manuscripts and a fantastic collection of old master drawings, but it does…
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Eye Candy for Today: – Sota l’Ombrella (Under the Parasol) by Lluís Masriera
Sota l’Ombrella (Under the Parasol), by Lluís Masriera i Rosés; oil on canvas, roughly 35 x 51 in. (90 x 131 cm); Link is to image file page on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya. Spanish painter Lluís Masriera, who was active in the late 19th snd early 20th centuries,…
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Eye Candy for Today: Bierstadt Autumn landscape
Autumn Woods, Albert Bierstadt, Oil on linen, roughly 54 x 94 in. Link is to image page on Visual Elsewhere, large image here. Original is in the collection of the New-York Historical Society. I had the pleasure of seeing thie painting in person a few yars ago in a show of Hudson River School paintings…