Nice to see some love for Andrew Wyeth...a local favorite around my area. Another Maine connected artist was Winslow Homer, with "Fog Warning" (1885) being a favorite of mine.... Nice Halibut on board! Seriously, Homer captured this scenario very accurately...
My favorite painting is probably "Starry Night" also. But here is one I really enjoy seeing at a local museum, I believe part of their permanent collection. Of course, the painting is much more impressive in person.
My mother was obsessed with Andrew Wyeth! My wife is obsessed with Maxfield Parrish. Me, I prefer work in a different medium.... Now playing on Ariel Stream: Kelli Ali - Fellow Man
Not a painting, but an engraving. This was one of the illustrations Gustave Dore did for Dante's "Inferno". 1861 View attachment 273732
Until you've stood next to one of these in person, you cant appreciate how powerful they are. They're overwhelm you and exert a tremendous resonant force when you stand in front of them. Nice choice!
As a photographer obsessed with light I'd be remiss if I didn't mention Vermeer. Girl With A Pearl Earring is certainly the most famous these days, but I tend to gravitate toward these two:
I'm blanking on the name of the specific one, but it's one of the many amazing Claude Monet water works (though not with lillies). I can never remember those 10 word titles of a piece. Jeff
I'd be hard pressed to pick just one, but it would be by Jackson Pollock from his "drip period", here represented by "number 31":
There are too many beautiful paintings from which to choose, but a print of this hangs above our fireplace. The Fall of the Cowboy by Frederic Remington
Too many - but at the moment, how about Four Studies of the Head of a Negro by Rubens. It's so unaccountably modern.
