Love Locked Out (1890) – Anna M. Lea Anna Massey Lea (1844–1930), also known as Anna Lea Merritt, was born in Philadelphia, US, but lived in England… Read more “Eros in distress – (Lovely Paintings Revisited #4)”
Category: American painters
Lovely Paintings Revisited #3 – Sargent
John Singer Sargent – Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose – 1885-86 Every day that British weather permitted, from September to early November of 1885, and again during all… Read more “Lovely Paintings Revisited #3 – Sargent”
Edward Hopper (XVI) – Pulling us inside the painting
Compartment C, Car 293 (1938) A train compartment, a lone woman, reading by a window, the sight of a bridge, a mixture of artificial light with that… Read more “Edward Hopper (XVI) – Pulling us inside the painting”
Edward Hopper (XV) – Changing moods from one restaurant to another (1922-30)
I consider these three oils, representing people in restaurants, as a group or series in Hopper’s work. While the moods of the protagonists are variable and quite… Read more “Edward Hopper (XV) – Changing moods from one restaurant to another (1922-30)”
Edward Hopper (XIV) – An early and quite queer masterwork: Soir Bleu
Soir Bleu, painted by Hopper in 1914 in Paris, France, is the most peculiar among all Hopper’s works, and at that early stage of his career, his… Read more “Edward Hopper (XIV) – An early and quite queer masterwork: Soir Bleu”
Edward Hopper (XIII) – “Portrait of Orleans” from a car about to crash
Hopper’s portraits of buildings, villages, landscapes…, faithful as they may be, are also inner portraits. They quite deliberately represent the painter’s mood and, often times, tell some… Read more “Edward Hopper (XIII) – “Portrait of Orleans” from a car about to crash”
Edward Hopper (XII) – A Dawn and two Dusks
After a rather long interval, I come back to my ongoing series of posts about Edward Hopper. Despite having already advanced drafts for longer posts, I feel… Read more “Edward Hopper (XII) – A Dawn and two Dusks”
The previous ‘Morning After’, by Alyssa Monks
[This post on contemporary American painting is a direct follow-up of another one on my other blog: A Painting with Soul: ‘Morning After II’ by Alyssa Monks.] The… Read more “The previous ‘Morning After’, by Alyssa Monks”
Edward Hopper (XI) – The Sailing Boats – oils and watercolours
Edward Hopper’s lifelong enthusiasm for the sea developed when he was a boy in Nyack, NY, then a prosperous Hudson River port with an active shipyard. Years… Read more “Edward Hopper (XI) – The Sailing Boats – oils and watercolours”
Leda, angels, swans, tigers and disquieting puppeteers in the work of Michael Parkes
Although I will never try to post the numerous works of art, representing the myth of Leda and the Swan, that my sister and I have been chasing,… Read more “Leda, angels, swans, tigers and disquieting puppeteers in the work of Michael Parkes”
Two small beach scenes with children, by Winslow Homer – 1869
After some time of search, I have found fine HD pictures of these two oils by Homer I like much. The only problem with them (but in… Read more “Two small beach scenes with children, by Winslow Homer – 1869”
“Welcome to”, by Alyssa Monks
. I recently discovered this young American painter –born in New Jersey, 1977. Soon, I published a couple of posts (on this blog and on my sister’s) with… Read more ““Welcome to”, by Alyssa Monks”
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