Winslow Homer at the Clark

Posted on February 29, 2016 by Mike

The Clarke Museum in Williamstown, Massachusetts has a great collection of paintings by Winslow Homer. Here are just a few that are currently on display.

: Winslow Homer, West Point, Prout’s Neck, 1900, Oil on canvas, 30 1/16″ x 48 1/8″

: Winslow Homer, Summer Squall, 1904, Oil on canvas, 24 1/4″ x 30 1/4″

: Winslow Homer, Saco Bay, 1896, Oil on canvas, 23 13/16″ x 37 15/16″

: Winslow Homer, Playing a Fish, 1875, reworked in the 1890s, Oil on canvas, 11 11/16″ x 18 15/16″

: Winslow Homer, Sleigh Ride, c 1890-95, Oil on canvas, 14 1/16″ x 20 1/16″

: Winslow Homer, Farmyard Scene, c 1872-74, Oil on canvas, 12 3/8″ x 18 7/16″

The closeup below shows Homer’s loose brushwork and rich application of paint.

Closeup of Summer Squall by Winslow Homer

More Pieces from the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum

Posted on February 27, 2016 by Mike

The Mount Holyoke College Art Museum has quite a large collection of interesting paintings. Here are a few highlights from my last visit.

: Robert Henri, Annie Lavelle, 1928, Oil on canvas, 27 3/8″ x 19 3/8″

: Albert Bierstadt, Hetch Hetchy Canyon, 1875, Oil on canvas, 51 3/8″ x 41 3/4″

: Arthur Wesley Dow, The Red Island, 1907, Oil on canvas, 25 5/8″ x 35 5/8″

: William Marlow, River Landscape with Bridge and Mill, Oil on canvas, 22″ x 29″

: Daniel Garber, A Country Town, 1923, Oil on canvas, 35 1/4″ x 43 1/2″

: John Constable, Hampstead Fields, Looking West, Afternoon, 1821, Oil on panel, 6 1/2″ x 8 3/4″

: Crijn Hendricksz Volmarijn, Joseph Interpreting the Dreams of Pharaoh’s Butler and Baker, c 1631-37, Oil on panel, 35″ x 48″

: George Inness, Saco Ford: Conway Meadows, 1876, Oil on canvas, 38″ x 63″

: Hendrick Andriessen, Vanitas Still Life, c. 1650, Oil on canvas, 25 1/8″ x 33 1/8″

Janet Fish at Mount Holyoke College Art Museum

Posted on February 25, 2016 by Mike

I saw this interesting piece by Janet Fish at the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum. Janet Fish is a realist artist, but as you can see in the closeups, she is still quite painterly.

Janet Fish, Kraft Salad Dressing, 1973, Oil on canvas, 41″ x 45″

Closeup of leftmost bottle neck.

Closeup view of leftmost two bottles.

Davis Museum

Posted on February 23, 2016 by Mike

Here are a few pieces from the Davis Museum at Wellsley College. The Huffington Post has an interesting article on Alice Neel’s Wellesly Girls.

: Alice Neel, Wellesley Girls (Kiki Djos ’68 and Nancy Selvage ’67), 1967, Oil on canvas

: Claude Monet, Waterloo Bridge, 1899-1903, Oil on canvas

: Leopoldo Méndez, Las Primeras Luces, 1948, Linocut

: Francis Alÿs, Cityscape, 1996-97, Oil on panel and enamel on galvanized steel.

Pivot Art and Culture

Posted on February 21, 2016 by Mike

Here are some pieces from The Figure in Process: de Kooning to Kapoor 1955 – 2015, on view at Pivot Art and Culture through February 28, 2016.

: Pivot Art and Culture, The Figure in Process: de Kooning to Kapoor 1955 – 2015

: Wayne Thiebaud, Girl in Striped Blouse, 1973-1975, Oil on canvas, 66 1/8″ x 36 1/8″

: Y.Z. Kami, Untitled (Maryam), 2007, Oil on canvas, 116″ x 66″

: Mark Tansey, EC 101, 2009, Oil on canvas, 100″ x 79.5″

: Pivot Art and Culture, The Figure in Process: de Kooning to Kapoor 1955 – 2015

: Roy Lichtenstein, Interior with Swimming Pool Painting, 1992, Oil and Magna on canvas, 72″ x 60″

: Wayne Thiebaud, Girl in Striped Blouse, 1973-1975, Oil on canvas, 66 1/8″ x 36 1/8″

: Ron Mueck, Crouching Boy in Mirror, 1999-2002, Mixed media, 17″ x 18″ x 11″

: Anish Kapoor, Blood Cinema, 2000, Acrylic and steel, 77 5/8″ x 77 5/8″ x 20 1/8″

Building 30 West

Posted on October 18, 2015 by Mike

Had a great time visiting the Building 30 West Artists in the heart of the Sand Point Naval Air Station Historic District. Their recently renovated building is home to studios for about 30 artists. Watch for their next open house – they do it about twice a year. I stuck my head in a bunch of studios and had many interesting and inspiring conversations. The photos below show Emiliya Lane, Heather Carr, Amália Couto, Sandra Power, and Marc Bohne.

: Emiliya Lane in her studio.

: Emiliya Lane’s studio.

: Emiliya Lane

: Heather Carr

: Amália Couto

: Amália Couto

: Sandra Power, Studio Chair #2

: Sandra Power, Tureen with Orange Squares

: Marc Bohne

: The Officer’s Club in Building 30 West.

Intimate Impressionism

Posted on October 18, 2015 by Mike

This weekend I visited Intimate Impressionism from the National Gallery of Art which is on display at the Seattle Art Museum through January 10, 2016.

: Antoine Vollon, Mound of Butter, 1875-85

: Henri Fantin-Latour, Self-Portrait, 1861

: Odilon Redon, Village by the Sea in Brittany, ca. 1880

: Paul Cézanne, Still Life with Milk Jug and Fruit, ca. 1900

: Paul Cézanne, Three Pears, 1878-79

: Pierre Bonnard, Table Set in a Garden, ca. 1980

Observing, Observing (a white cup)

Posted on October 11, 2015 by Mike

I saw “Observing, Observing (a white cup)” at Prographica over the weekend. The show, which includes paintings, photographs and collage, focuses on the challenge of creating an interesting image of a white cup on a white surface. It runs through October 31st, 2015.

: Graham Shutt, “White Cup 000a”, 2015, archival inkjet print, edition 1 of 3, 6 x 6″

: Evelyn Woods, “White Cup #2″, 2015, oil on board, 11 x 14”

: Brian Blackham, “A Cup”, 2015, oil on panel, 16 x 12″

: Amy Huddleston, “Night Cup”, 2015, oil on linen, 14 x 20.5″

: Joe Crookes, “White Cup”, 2015, archival inkjet print 1/8, 10.5 x 8”

The Language of Prints

Posted on July 12, 2014 by Mike

I saw an excellent print show entitled, “The Language of Prints” at the Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University. Runs through July 27, 2014. Here are some of my favorites.

Cake Toss by AmyCutler

The Library-Camden-Maine Coast by Carroll Thayer Berry

Air by Francesco Clemente

Jesus Dies upon the Cross by John J. A. Murphy

Angel of Death by Leonard Baskin

Stoops in the Snow by Martin Lewis

Pelican by Walter Klemm

Michael J Hopcroft

Learning Art and the Art of Software

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