This month’s featured painting is The Garden, Longpré-les-Corps-Saints by John Russell. It’s a simple and pleasant landscape by one of my favorite unsung Australian artists. (Click here to download the full-resolution photo of the painting.) Brief details about the painting: Your Thoughts? Use this as an opportunity to test your ability to analyze master paintings. … Read more
Let’s take a look at a still life this month, Still Life – Kettle #2 by Nicolai Fechin. Still lifes don’t usually captivate me as a great landscape or portrait painting might. But this one by Fechin is an exception. It’s a wonderful and complex display of color and technique. (Click here to download a … Read more
This month’s featured artwork is On the Sands by Winslow Homer. It was done with several mediums: watercolor, gouache, pen and ink, and graphite. It’s a moody and understated painting, but there’s a lot going on. (Click here to download a higher resolution photo of the painting.) Brief details about the painting: Watercolor and gouache … Read more
This month’s featured painting is The Boat at Giverny by Claude Monet. I thought of this painting as I put the finishing touches on Boats at Wynnum. I remember first seeing it in a documentary about Monet’s life, I, Claude Monet, and being captivated by the sea of greens and blues that filled the screen. … Read more
This month’s featured painting is Violet and Gold by Frederick McCubbin. It’s a wonderful display of light flickering through the Australian landscape, with tall gum trees and cows drinking at the pond’s edge. McCubbin wrote of his appreciation of gum trees: “The subtle way in which it responds to varying effects of light and shadow … Read more
This month’s featured painting is Evening at Hradcany by Jakub Schikaneder. A moody and ambient painting with a vague, moon-lit figure overlooking the city. Click here for a high-resolution photo of the painting. Brief Details About the Painting: Oil on canvas. 86.5 x 107.5 cm (34 x 43.3 inches). Completed 1913. Location: Unknown. Your Thoughts? … Read more
This month’s featured artwork is The Echo by Finnish artist Ellen Thesleff. Brief Details About the Painting: Oil on canvas. 61 x 43.5 cm (24 x 17.12 inches). Completed 1891. Location: Unknown. Your Thoughts? Use this as an opportunity to test your ability to analyze master paintings. In the comments below, share what you think … Read more
This month’s featured painting is Woman Awakening by Eva Gonzalès. What a soft and beautiful painting by one of the lesser-known French Impressionists. Click here for a high-resolution photo of the painting. Brief Details About the Painting: Oil on canvas. 101.5 x 82.5 cm (39.9 x 32.4 inches). Completed 1876. Location: Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany. … Read more
This month’s featured painting is Autumn, Portrait of Lydia Cassatt by Mary Cassatt. Click here for a high-resolution photo of the painting. Brief Details About the Painting: Oil on canvas. 104 x 77 cm (40.9 x 30.3 inches). Completed 1880. Location: Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris. Your Thoughts? Use this as an … Read more
This month’s featured artwork is Portrait of Son by Peter Rubens. I love this drawing. I plan to do a similar one of my daughter, Elora (I need to hurry up as she is growing fast). Brief Details About the Painting: Chalk on paper. 25 x 20 cm (9.8 in x 7.8 inches). Completed c.1619. … Read more