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Category: Online Museums

  • Van Gogh’s Letters

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    Anyone who has read Dear Theo, the book of Vincent van Gogh’s letters to his brother, which, in essence, is a kind of autobiography, knows that the popularized image of the artist as an uncouth, irrational, semi-literate wild man, stabbing at the canvas in frantic desperation like a crazed orangutan, couldn’t be further from the…

  • Allpaintings Art Portal

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    One of the best things about the internet is its exponential rate of growth. If there’s something you can’t find today, wait a few years (or months, or days) and it just may pop up. “All things”, to paraphrase the zen-like passage from the Bible, “come to he who waits.” When I started writing Lines…

  • Jonathan Janson

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    Occasionally artists will become particularly fascinated with the work of one of their predecessors, and study the work of that artist in depth. Such is the case with Jonathan Janson, and artist originally from (if I’m not mistaken) Seattle, now living and working in Rome. Janson has a deep and abiding interest in the work…

  • The Museum of Online Museums

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    I’ll start out by giving the Major Time Sink Warning. The Museum of Online Museums is site maintained by Coudal Partners, a design firm based in Chicago. Basically it’s a list of links to an eclectic collection of online sites, either virtual museums, or online extensions of brick and mortar museums. It ranges from the…

  • New Web Site for The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

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    The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where I had the privilege of studying as a painting major, is the oldest art school in the United States. Modeled after the academic schools of Europe, it has a long tradition of training American artists and a correspondingly long history of collecting American art for its associated…

  • Web Gallery of Art

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    The Web Gallery of Art (WGA) is one of the best and most extensive of the “online museums” on the web. The WGA is more specific than some, with a focus on European Art from the Gothic to the Romantic periods (1100 to 1850). The gallery has a search function, as you would expect, as…