Eye Candy for Today: Henry Farrer graphite drawing
Landscape by a Stream, Henry Farrer, graphite, 15 x 22 in. ( 36 x 56 cm), in the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum. Downloadable file on their website.
19th century English/American artist Henry Farrer gives us a beautifully delicate graphite landscape.
It looks carefully detailed, but on closer examination, reveals much in the way of apparently casual handling. The tree foliage is basically scribbles, as are the plants by the water, the tones of the distant trees looks roughly penciled in and much of the composition is left open.
Yet the composition, the strong V shape of the dominant tree and...
Caspian Sea by Alex Andreev
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A pair of watercolor portraits by Ernesto Levorati
Two Framed Watercolor Portraits of Children, Ernesto Levorati. Currently in a private collection, images are from Bonham’s past auction from 2024. Bohanam’s gives the sheet size as 12 x 8″ (30 x 20 cm).
I just came across these two delightful watercolor portraits by 19th century Italian artist Ernesto Levorati by chance.
There is a wonderful delicacy to the softly textural applicaiton of watercolor. It appears to me to be in a dry brush technique, of the painstaking kind used for botanical illustration. It’s hard to be sure. It may just be granulating colors.
Whatever the technique, the end result is a soft,...
Eye Candy for Today: Sargent watercolor from Villa di Marlia
Villa di Marlia, Lucca – A Fountain, John SInger Sargen, watercolor and gouache, 16 x 21 in. (40 x 53 cm). Link is to a larger image on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
I had the pleasure of seeing this beautiful Sargent watercolor, along with several similar pieces and a range of others, at a spectacular show at the Brooklyn Museum several years ago. Like a number of the other works in the show, it was easy to see that passages of lighter colors and white were painted over darker colors.
Sargent, like...
Yu Qiuyang
Yu Qiuyang is a Chinese concept artist and illustrator, working digitally in Photoshop and Maya.
Throughout the work I’ve seen there is an interesting interplay between light and dark themes, the latter often punctuated with a pool of lighter color.
The subjects are primarily fantasy oriented, with a particular emphasis on what appears to be recurring characters of an anthropomorphized tiger and his companions.
Anton Hartinger
19th century Austrian artist Anton Hartinger was noted for his still life paintings of fruit and flowers, and also was a botanical illustrator.
He was responsible for a noted work titled Endlicher’s Paradisus Vindobonensis (Endlicher’s Viennese Paradise – link is to the book reproduction on plantillustrations.org), consisting of handpainted prints (“chromolithographs”) of his botanical illustrations of exotic plants in the gardens and museums of Vienna.
Eye Candy for Today: Alice Fanner landscape
The Luxembourg Gardens, Paris, Alice Maude Fanner; oil on canvas, 25 x 32 in. ( 64 x 81 cm). Image is from a Christie’s autcion in 2013; I assume the painting is currently in a private collection.
British painter Alice Fanner, who was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was noted for her landscapes, coastal scenes and cityscapes.
In this painting of the Luxembourg Gardens, she gives us an inviting view down the colonnade of trees along the green of the garden lawn, highlighted by a fountain in dappled shade and the sculptures that adorn it.
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Jane Bown. Henri Cartier-Bresson with Leica M3. Paris. 1957I Am...
Jane Bown. Henri Cartier-Bresson with Leica M3. Paris. 1957
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Eric Thake (1957) Bushranger
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Frank Horvat. Underground commuters. London. 1955I Am...
Frank Horvat. Underground commuters. London. 1955
I Am Collective Memories • Follow me, — says Visual Ratatosk