Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Eye Candy for Today: Rembrandt pen drawing of cottage and fence
Cottage with White Paling among Trees, Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn Drawing in quill and reed pen in brown ink with brown wash and touches of opaque white and gray wash; roughly 7 x 10 inches (17 x 25 cm); in the collection of the Rijksmuseum. Image is zoomable on their page, you can also download…
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Eye Candy for today: Aurthur Robinson watercolor of Alfred Gilbert sculpture commission
Drawing for Alfred Gilbert’s project for the tomb of a the Duke of Clarence, Aurthur Robinson Watercolor, roughly 24 x 35 inches (89 x 61 cm). Link is to zoomable version on the Google Art Project; downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Musée d’Orsay. This is a painting by English painter Aurthur…
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Lines and Colors has gone dark today, please read why…
—— Comments about Net Neutrality can be filed with the FCC up until July 17, 2017. When I posted this originally, I actually shut the site down and only this message was accessible against an otherwise black screen. I’ve reposted it as a regular article, both because it’s still vital, and so you can comment…