Natalie Papamichael. Part 1.
Natalie Papamichael in her studio I have told you on a few occasions that I tend to write about artists who have passed away and steer clear of living artists as they may take offence about what I...
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The paintings by today’s artist are highly colourful and whose early works showcased the people and landscapes of Brittany. His works have a strong resemblance to paintings by Paul Gaugin and as you...
View ArticleNickolai Patrovich Bogdanov-Belsky. Part 2.
The Peredvizhniki of 1886 Seating from left to right: Sergei Nikolajewitsch Ammosow; Aleksandr Aleksandrowitsch Kisselew; Nikolai Wassilijewitsch Newrew; Wladimir Jegorowitsch Makowski; Aleksandr...
View ArticleNikolai Petrovich Bogdanov-Belsky. Part 1. School Days
Self portrait by Nikolai Petrovich Bogdanov-Belsky (1915) Today I am talking about Nikolai Petrovich Bogdanov-Belsky, who was one of the great nineteenth century Russian painters. The visual...
View ArticleAlice Ravenel Huger Smith
Self Portrait (1908) At the turn of the twentieth century, the South Carolina city of Charleston was a shadow of its former glory. Charleston had historically nurtured a celebrated art and...
View ArticleThomas Cooper Gotch. Part 3.
Although returning to live in Newlyn was tempting Thomas decided on another course of action and took his wife on the long voyage to Australia on the fully rigged sailing passenger clipper, Torrens.,...
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Thomas Cooper Gotch Sometime in 1878 their reading group, set up by Thomas Gotch, had a new member. Her name was Caroline Burland Yates. Caroline was one of three sisters born to Esther Burland and...
View ArticleThomas Cooper Gotch. Part 1.
Self Portrait with Two Square Brushes by Thomas Gotch My featured artist today is the British painter, Thomas Cooper Gotch. Little has been written about Thomas Gotch and in a way, he appears to be...
View ArticleJenny Eugenia Nyström
Britain over the years have had many talented children’s book illustrators. There are the likes of Beatrix Potter with her illustrative work seen in books of Peter Rabbit and his Friends. There was...
View ArticleManchester Art Gallery. Part 3.
My third and final look at some of the artwork on view at the Manchester Art Gallery is a collection of many painting genres all of which appealed to me. The Desert by Edwin Landseer (1849) Sir Edwin...
View ArticleManchester Art Gallery. Part 2. The Pre-Raphaelites.
The Lantern Maker’s Courtship by William Holman Hunt (c.1860) The setting for the Lantern Maker’s Courtship by William Holman Hunt is a street somewhere in the Middle East. We are outside a lantern...
View ArticleManchester Art Gallery. Part 1. The Females.
If you happen to visit Manchester, England, you will find two main art galleries, the Manchester Art Gallery and the Whitworth Gallery. Last weekend I was in the city for a weekend break and decided...
View ArticleThe Moonlight Pethers
Today I am looking at a family of artists who specialised in painting moonlight scenes, so much so they were known as the Moonlight Pethers. This is a story about Abraham Pether and his two sons Henry...
View ArticleDorothea Tanning, her early life and her love of Surrealism. Part 3
Dorothea Tanning in Sedona (1943) Dorothea and Max Ernst divided their time between their Arizona home in Sedona and their apartment in New York. Often Tanning would return to New York to show her...
View ArticleDorothea Tanning, her early life and her love of Surrealism. Part 2.
Dorothea Tanning (1944) By the later part of 1942, Dorothea Tanning was well established with the Surrealist Movement within the New York art scene. At the party hosted by the art dealer, Julien Levy...
View ArticleDorothea Tanning, her early life and her love of Surrealism. Part 1.
Dorothea Tanning aged 18. (1928) What does one mean when one says they like art. What is art? By definition, art is a diverse range of human activities involving creative imagination to express...
View ArticlePaul Fischer
Self-portrait, Nytorv in Winter by Paul Fischer (1909) Paul Gustav Fischer was born July 22nd, 1860. His ancestors, who were originally from Poland, were the fourth generation of the Fischer family...
View ArticleEugène Boudin. Part 2.
Sky, Setting Sun, Bushes in Foreground. by Eugène Boudin (ca. 1848-1853) One of Boudin’s earlier paintings which featured his mastery of depicting skies is his work entitled Sky, Setting Sun,...
View ArticleEugène Boudin. Part 1.
My featured artist today is the nineteenth century French painter Eugène Boudin. He was one of the earliest en plein air painters and is credited with introducing plein air painting to Monet. He was...
View ArticleThe Talented Paxtons
William McGregor Paxton and his wife, Elizabeth Okie Paxton William McGregor Paxton Elizabeth Okie Paxton My blog today features an...
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