Things Have Changed

Another painting by an artist I discovered only a couple of years ago, John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-93).  Wharfedale is one of the Yorkshire...

 By Belgian artist Paul Delvaux (1897-1994).  The train makes it.  Via Marysia .

Sun On A House, Dieppe (1937) by Scottish painter James Proudfoot (1908-71) I really find his use of light here captivating.  However, unlik...

By NC Wyeth, a year before he passed in 1945.  This work draws me in.  It is mesmerizing and subtlety moving the longer I look.

 Claude Monet from 1874.  Think I'll just imagine myself here.

Via Olga Tuleninova , I came across Italian painter Alessandro Tofanelli, and was very intrigued by his imagery.  A few samples below.   An...

After one of her paintings won acclaim at the 1884 Paris Salon , demand grew for Anna Billing's work.  I enjoy the perspective and feel ...

Someone made this lovely video of Edward Hopper's paintings from 1935 to 1941.  All are set in New York or the surrounding area (some lo...

I first encountered the work of English artist John Atkinson Grimshaw via the twitter account of Darrell Epp, which is full of fascinati...

By the Danish artist Gustav Vermehren (1863-1931); titled, A Little Girl and Her Grandmother, Seen Through a Doorway.  What, you thought I...

  By Hermann Corrodi, an Italian painter; done sometime in the 1870s.  The remnants of a vanished world.   The Aqua Claudia was one of the l...

California Scene Painting is defined in Wikipedia as "a form of American regionalist art depicting landscapes, places, and people of Ca...

  I quite enjoyed this video essay on Edward Hopper's 1942 painting Nighthawks.  Very insightful.  Via Open Culture .

Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-69) painted self portraits from his young adult years until just before his death.  A few years ago someone called ...

By Jules Gervais-Courtellemont (1925).  Near Beaulieu.  On our trips to the region we are never visited this location, having only been w...

Painting by Giovanni Canaletto, a Venetian, who visited Rome in the 1720s. Just to the right of the Arch can be seen part of the Colosseu...

  Trying to find a calming escape from politics, Winston Churchill took up landscape painting between the two world wars.  Over his lifet...

Born in Amerfoort, Holland in 1653, Caspar van Wittel left the Netherlands in 1674 for Italy, residing primarily in Rome, where he died in ...

Painting by Paul Emile Pissarro (1884-1972), son of the French artist Camille Pissarro.