Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Gallery and Museum Art

  • John Crump

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    John Crump is a painter based in western New Zealand whose lively style, rich with the passage of the brush, is ideally suited to his subject matter, whether it be fresh flowers, the weathered texture of ramshackle buildings or the rough character of the dramatic New Zealand mountains or shoreline. Crump’s website has both a…

  • Kadir Nelson

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    Kadir Nelson is an illustrator and gallery artist whose style ranges from straightforward to engagingly stylized. His illustration work includes a number of popular picture books as well as editorial work — including the 90th anniversary cover of The New Yorker. This featured a delightful updating of the magazine’s signature character, Eustace Tilly (images above,…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Waterhouse’s Juliet

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    Juliet, John William Waterhouse The link is to Wikimedia Commons. This painting was sold at auction in 2014, and is now in a private collection. Fortunately, we at least have a reasonably good image of the painting. Waterhouse is frequently mentioned with the Pre-Raphaelites, with whom he associated and by whom he was certainly influenced;…

  • Johann Wilhelm Preyer

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    Johann Wilhelm Preyer was a 19th century German painter who specialized in still life of fruit and glassware, often in simple arrangements that allowed him to focus great attention on individual objects. Preyer had a richly visceral approach. In good reproductions, you can get a sense of the immediacy and palpable textural quality of his…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Alexander Cozens ink and wash landscape drawing

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    Landscape with Ruined Temple, Alexander Cozens Brown ink and wash over graphite; roughly 12 x 16 inches (32 x 40 cm); in the collection of the Yale Center for British Art. Use the Zoom or Download links under the image on their site. Also available as a a zoomable image on Google Art Project and…

  • Patrick Saunders

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    Often when I feature a contemporary artist, I start by pointing out their geographic region, but plein air painter Patrick Saunder’s location might best be described as “America”, as he and his wife, photographer Kimberly Saunders, travel across the U.S. with an Airstream trailer, following the plein air circuit or going where the spirit takes…