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Frants Henningsen
Today I am looking at the life and works of the Danish painter and illustrator, Frants Peter Diderik Henningsen. Henningsen was born in Copenhagen on June 26th 1850. He was the oldest of three...
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John Koch. Part 1.
John Koch The artist I am looking at today is the twentieth century American painter John Koch. I will also look at the life he had with...
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John Koch. Part 2.
The Monument by John Koch (1950) John Koch’s reputation was further enhanced in 1950, when his painting The Monument was exhibited at The...
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John Koch. Part 3.
Interlude by John Koch (1963) Dora featured in many of her husband’s paintings. One such is his 1963 work entitled Interlude....
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Ásgrímur Jónsson, the Icelandic Impressionist.
This is just a short mini-blog to look at a twentieth century Impressionist from Iceland, Ásgrímur Jónsson Ásgrímur Jónsson Ásgrímur...
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Harold Harvey
Harold Harvey (1874 – 1941) My featured artist today is one of the famous Newlyn School painters. The term Newlyn school applies to a group of artists who settled in Newlyn and St Ives in the late...
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Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool Last week I treated myself to a day trip to Liverpool, a city which was some eight miles from my birthplace. I had not visited there for a number of years but decided...
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The 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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Eugène 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...
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Eugène 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,...
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Paul 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...
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Dorothea 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...
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Dorothea 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...
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Dorothea 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...
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The 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...
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Manchester 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...
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Manchester 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...
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Manchester 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...
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Jenny 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...
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Thomas 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...
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