Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Homer’s Girl in a Hammock
Girl in a Hammock, Winslow Homer Link is to a page from which you can access a large image on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the collection of the Colby Museum of Art, which also has a zoomable version. I haven’t had the pleasure of seeing the original. The Wikimedia version may be a bit…
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Marie-François Firmin-Girard
Marie-François Firmin-Girard (or perhaps more correctly, François-Marie Firmin-Girard) was a French painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He studied for a time with Charles Gleyre (in whose Paris studio three of the founding Impressionists would later meet), and then with academic mainstay Jean-Léon Gérôme. After a successful debut at the Paris…
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Eye Candy for Today: Chardin’s The Scullery Maid
The Scullery Maid, Jean-Simeon Chardin In the collection of the National Gallery of Art, DC. Use the Zoom or Download links to the right of the image on their page. 18th century French painter Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin was noted for his wonderful still life paintings (that I think magically hold time still in a way comparable…
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George Vicat Cole
Victorian era painter George Vicat Cole was the middle of three generations of painters; his father, George Cole, and his son, Rex Vicat Cole, were both painters of note. His daughter, Mary Blanch Cole, was also an artist, but I’ve been unable to find any information about her online. George Vicat Cole was noted for…
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Eye Candy for Today: Julian Alden Weir’s The Factory Village
The Factory Village, Julian Alden Weir In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use the “Download” or “Enlarge” links under the image on their site. In this late 19th century scene — that makes factory life seem almost idyllic — I love Weir’s textural application of paint and the way he uses it…
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Eye Candy for Today: Giacomo Guardi gouache painting of Venice
View of the Rialto Bridge, Giacomo Guardi Gouache on paper, roughly 5 x 9 inches (13 x 24 cm); in the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum. On the Morgan’s page, you can use the Download link under the image, or the Zoom tab above it. When using the zoom, it’s helpful to know…