Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: M.J. Galt pencil portrait
Alex, by M.J. Galt, pencil on paper. I don’t know the size. Link is to image file page on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Library of Congress. There is a character to this drawing, perhaps a feeling of confidence and definitive structure, that make me confident that it is an exacting portrait, an undeniable…
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Julian Merrow-Smith – Postcard from Provence (update)
One of my favorite contemporary painters is a British painter who has been living and painting in the south of France for many years. In 2005, he became one of the earliest artists to adopt the practice of “Painting a Day”, (perhaps second, not long after the originator of that idea Duane Keiser). This calls…
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Eye Candy for Today: Thomas Shotter Boys color lithograph
La Ste. Chapelle, Paris, Thomas Shotter Boys, color lithograph, 15 x 12 in. (38 x 29). Link is to the image page on Wikimedia Commons. Thomas Shotter Boys (1803–1874) was known for his urban and architectural subjects, both in watercolor and in lighographs. Here, in a color lithograph, he highlights the soaring 50 foot high…
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Eye Candy for Today: Joseph Coomans portrait
Portrait of a Young Woman, Pierre Oliver Joseph Coomans (1816-1871), oil on canvas, 19 x 15 in. (48 x 38 cm). The link is to the Wikimedia Commons page from which you can view or download a large image. The image source is a 2017 Bonham’s auction, so I assume the painting is in a…
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Eye Candy for Today: Vernet’s Hunting in the Pontine Marches
Hunting in the Pontine Marches, Horace Vernet, oil on canvas, 40 x 54 in. (100 x 137 cm), in the collection of the National Galleryy of Art, DC. You can zoom or download a high resolution image from their page. Every once in a while, I come across a landscape that captures my intention, and…
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Maia Ramishvili
Maia Ramishvili is an artist from Tbilisi, Georgia. Her subjects are primarily women in ornate garb, the pattens and textures of which give the paintings a look of collage. Her restraint on using rendering in faces and hands gives the work a graphic feeling. but they are oil paintings on canvas. She also paints more…