Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Frederico Zuccaro brown ink drawing of his brother drawing antique sculptures
Taddeo Drawing after the Antique; In the Background Copying a Facade by Polidoro, Federico Zuccaro Pen and brown ink, brush with brown wash, roughly 17 x 7 inches (42 x 18 cm); in the collection of the Getty Museum, which has both a zoomable and downloadable version of the image. There is also a somewhat…
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Joseph Rodefer DeCamp
Originally from Ohio, Joseph Rodefer DeCamp studied there and in Germany with fellow Ohioan Frank Duveneck. After his travels and studies in Europe, DeCamp settled in Boston, where he became a founding member of the Ten American Painters — a group of artists, largely considered American Impressionists, who banded together to exhibit outside the more…
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Eye Candy for Today: Daubigny small oil
Cows Grazing by a River, Charles François Daubigny Oil on card, roughly 3 x 7 inches (7 x 17 cm); in the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum. What a wonderful little painting this is — a sky full of movement and a richly textural landscape, both defined and enlivened by thick, rough brush…
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Henk Helmantel
Henk Helmantel is a contemporary Dutch painter who takes inspiration in the great Dutch masters of the 17th century. Though he also paints landscapes and portraits, Helmantel’s emphasis in on still life — much in the tradition of Baroque Dutch still life in subject matter and technique — and interiors, frequently of Gothic churches in…
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Simon Palmer
Simon Palmer is an English landscape painter who has a fascinating approach somewhere between naturalistic and quite stylized. He appears to slightly compress both linear and atmospheric perspective, giving an impression of flatness the belies the textures he gives to his foliage and tree forms. This is emphasized by his muted palette, primarily consisting of…
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Eye Candy for Today: Watteau chalk studies
Two Studies of the Head and Shoulders of a Little Girl, Antoine Watteau Black, red and white chalk on buff paper, roughy 7 x 10 inches (19 x 25 cm); in the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum. Use the Zoom feature or download link. Watteau was noted for his “trois crayon” drawings, in…