Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Frederic William Burton’s star crossed lovers
Hellelil and Hildebrand, the Meeting on the Turret Stairs, Frederic William Burton, watercolor and gouache, 37 x 24 in. (95 x 61 cm), in the collection of the National Gallery of Ireland. Link is to a Wikipedia page with access to a large image. Taken from a medieval ballad is the story of Hellelil, who…
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The Last Museum
The Last Museum, according to the website’s “About” page, is a search engine for museum art. It features a searchable database of over 5 million artworks, and intends to grow well beyond that. You can choose sections like “Artists”, “Museums” or “Cultures” and search from there, or simply enter any terms in the general search…
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Carolyn Lord
Carolyn Lord is a California watercolor artist who paints with bold, strongly geometric compositions, and colors that range from vivid to subtle. Within her elegantly simplified shapes you will often find fascinating variations in texture and color. Her website offers selections of her work in categories like gardens, still life and architecture, but my favorites…
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Eye Candy for Today: Pierre Guillemet portrait
Portrait of a Lady of the Court Playing the Tambourine, Pierre Désiré Guillemet, oil on canvas, 39×31 in. ( 96 x 79 cm), link is to Google Art Project, downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons. French painter Pierre Désiré Guillemet was known for his paintings in the Orientalist style. Like many paintings in that genre, there…
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Eye Candy for Today: Childe Hassam’s Water Garden
Water Garden, Childe Hassam, oil on canvas, 24 x 36″ (61 x 91 cm), in the collection of the Matropolitan Museum of Art. The Met doesn’t provide large version of this image; I found one on masterapollon.com, a site that sells reproductions, from this page. American Impressionism took many forms, Hassam is here using the…
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Eye Candy for Today: Arthur Streeton’s Australia Felix
Australia Felix, Arthur Streeton, oil on canvas, 35 x 59 in. (90 x 151 cm), link is to Google Art Project, downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Art Gallery of South Australia. Australia Felix is Latin for “dortunate Australia”, referring to fertils plains in Western Australia. Brilliant Australian painter Author Streeton, who…