Category: Gallery and Museum Art
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
Eye Candy for Today: John William Hill watercolor landscape
Landscape: View on Catskill Creek, John William Hill Watercolor and gouache; roughly 10 x 15 inches (25 x 38 cm); in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use the “Download” or “Enlarge” links under the image on their site. British-American artist John William Hill was noted for his scientific illustrations of birds and…
-
Eye Candy for Today: Colin Campbell Cooper’s Grand Central Station
Grand Central Station, Colin Campbell Cooper In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC. Use the “Download” or “Enlarge” links under the image on their site. “Painterly” may be too mild a word for the wonderful assortment of scrapings, scumbling, smearing and loaded brush dabbing and scrubbing that make this smoky 1909 cityscape…
-
William Trost Richards small watercolors at PAFA
American painter William Trost Richards, known for his seascapes and landscapes, was also a fantastic watercolorist. While traveling abroad in the late 19th century, he sent a series of small watercolors of his travels back to a patron, George Whitney, who was sponsoring his travels and looking to review scenes for possible larger commissions in…