James Abbot McNeill Whistler's "Harmony in Pink and Grey (Portrait of Lady Meux)"

Seven works of art I would like to see at the Frick

I recently visited New York and seeing the Frick was part of my plans, but due to time constraints I couldn't do it.  Anyway, in an effort to turn lemons into lemonade, I'm going to post seven works of art from the Frick that I wish I could have seen.  

Nationality: American

Born-Died: 1834-1903

Creation Date: 1881

Size: 76.3 × 36.6  in (193.7 × 93 cm)

Media: Oil on canvas 

Location: The Frick Collection, New York City, New York, USA

I love it!

John Hoppner "The Honourable Lucy Byng"*

Seven works of art I would like to see at the Frick

I recently visited New York and seeing the Frick was part of my plans, but due to time constraints I couldn't do it.  Anyway, in an effort to turn lemons into lemonade, I'm going to post seven works of art from the Frick that I wish I could have seen.  

Nationality: English

Born-Died: 1758-1810

Creation Date: Late 1700's

Size: 30.1 × 25  in (76.5 × 63.5 cm)

Media: Oil on canvas 

Location: The Frick Collection, New York City, New York, USA

This painting is gorgeous and appeals to my personal interest in Jane Austen.  I've never seen this image before and I love it!  I only wish I could have seen it at the Frick.

* I believe this is correct.

Jurij Subic's "A Lady"

Nationality: Slovenian
Born-Died: 1855-1890
Creation Date: c. 1883
Size: 37.4 x 24.4 in (95 x 62 cm) 
Media: Oil on canvas 
Location: The National Gallery of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia


This painting is unfinished but it looks like it was going to be so good.

Seven Paintings by Suzanne Eisendieck

Nationality: German

Born-Died: 1908-1998

Eisendieck is an artist that most people have never heard of and a great many people will not like.  I like some of them.  I just discovered her name and work very recently despite the fact that I had the first painting here in my “Unknown Artist” file for many years.   I kept it until I could properly identify it because I thought it had something interesting to it.  I was shocked to discover that she died in the 1990's, and not in the 1920's.

For the most part I appreciate her unique approach to impressionism—it seems to me like she used the impressionist method for expressive ends, not merely for the sake of “capturing the transient nature of light” or something like that, which is artistically pointless.  However, her approach seems like merely a good start.  I think a superior artist could have taken her style and developed it into something that was much more compelling.

Despite all this, her work seems to have elements that many young artists would want to adapt and I am surprised that more contemporary art students don’t admire her work.

The first two paintings here are the ones I like best.

Harriet Whitney Frishmuth "Aspiration"

Nationality: American

Born-Died: 1880 - 1980

Creation Date: 1933

Media: Stone

Location: Berwind Tomb, Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Greek Sculptor's "Piping and Dancing Satyr"

Nationality: Greek
Creation Date: 300-100 BCE
Size: 8.5 inch (21 cm)
Media: Bronze
Location: The Cleveland Museum of Art

The first photo (the inferior one) is by me.  I like the idea of depicting someone who is dancing, perhaps playing music and essentially rocking out. 

Konrad Dielitz's "Wotan Takes Leave of Brunhild"

Nationality: German
Creation Date: 1892
Media: Typogravure(?) on Paper

Life Drawing by Justin Wisniewski

Nationality: All American

Born-Died: 1978-

Creation Date: 2012

Size: 11 × 14 inch (27.9 x  35.6 cm)

Media: Graphite on paper

Location: My studio

Justin Wisniewski's "Winter"

Nationality: All American

Born-Died: 1978-

Creation Date: 2012

Size: 7 × 5 inch (115.5 x 82.5 cm)

Media: Oil on MDF panel

Location: My studio

99% finished.

St. Giles Cathedral, Day 7: Statue

Nationality: Scottish
Media: Marble
Location: St. Giles Church, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

I admit that I don't know who this is a statue of.

St. Giles Cathedral, Day 6: A Variety of Carvings and Architectural Details

Nationality: Scottish
Media: Marble
Location: St. Giles Church, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

St. Giles Cathedral, Day 5: Statue

Nationality: Scottish
Media: Marble
Location: St. Giles Church, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

St. Giles Cathedral, Day 1: Sculpture

Nationality: Scottish
Media: Stone
Location: St. Giles Church, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

This week I'm going to post images from St. Giles Cathedral* located in the old town of Edinburgh.

It was quite dark in there and I was hesitant to use a flash, so pardon the blurriness and darkness of these images.  I did my best to photoshop them into a recognizable state.

* it's technically not a cathedral.

Giovanni Boldini's "Count Robert de Montesquiou"

Nationality: Italian
Born-Died: 1842-1931
Creation Date: 1897
Size: 45.5 × 32.5 inch (115.5 x 82.5 cm)
Media: Oil on canvas
Location: Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France

Johannes Vermeer's "Lady Standing at a Virginal"

Nationality: Dutch
Born-Died: 1632-1675
Creation Date: c. 1670-1672
Size: 20.3 × 17.8 inch (51.7 × 45.2 cm)
Media: Oil on canvas
Location: The National Gallery, London, UK
Seeing this painting in such detail is amazing.

Johannes Vermeer's "Woman with a Lute"

Nationality: Dutch
Born-Died: 1632-1675
Creation Date: c. 1662-1663
Size: 20.2 × 18 inch (51.4 × 45.7 cm)
Media: Oil on canvas
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, USA

Hendrick Avercamp's "Winter Landscape"

Nationality: Dutch
Born-Died: c. 1585-c. 1634

Creation Date: c. 1630

Size: 11.25 × 16.61 inch (28.6 × 42.2 cm)

Media: Oil on copper

Location: The National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Photo by me.  I'll bet Amsterdam is fun when the canals freeze over.

George Inness' "Winter Evening"

Nationality: American
Born-Died: 1825-1894

Creation Date: 1887

Media: Oil on canvas

Art I Hate and Why: Pablo Picasso's "Guernica"

Nationality: Spanish
Born-Died: 1938-1994

Creation Date: 1937

Size: 137.4 × 305.5 inch (349 × 776 cm)

Media: Oil on canvas

Location: Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain

This is the most overrated painting from the 20^th century. 

Despite all the hype surrounding it and despite all the work that went into making it (and Picasso put an enormous amount of work into it) the result is like a cheap wine served in an enormous glass. 

Art I Hate and Why: Fernando Botero's "Man on Horse"

Nationality: Columbian
Born-Died: 1932-

Creation Date: 1992

Size: 25.125 x 34.875 inch (63.8 x 88.5cm)

Media: Bronze

Location: The Israel Museum, Jeruselem, Israel

 
Not only is Botero a mediocre artist, (this is one of his better works) but his view of man is hate-filled buried in cutesiness—a kind of defeated smile of acceptance in regards to what he believes is stupid and evil.  When I see artists ridicule the good, the serious, the capable, the majestic, the beautiful, the graceful, the heroic, I don’t believe it is because those artists have some sort of special knowledge about the nature of human beings.  Alternatively I think it is because they have a view of themselves as bad, absurd, incapable, lowly, ugly, graceless and cowardly.  To me, that is sad.