We’ve reached #6 in this round-up of seasonal snow scenes and we are still in middle Europe, this time in the company of the genre painter Alfred Wierusz-Kowalski. (1849 - 1915) His genre was definitely horses.
Riding Shotgun
The image below shows why the man on the back of the sledge was carrying a large [...]
This is post #5 in this mini series of Yule snow scenes, and today’s artist is T.F.Simon, a prolific painter and printmaker from Czechoslovakia who lived between 1877 and 1942. Today is the first time I’d ever heard of him! I just stumbled onto a website devoted to him, while looking for somebody [...]
The fourth snow themed painting in this series is by a favourite of mine, the Danish artist Peder Mork Mønsted, who lived a long and fruitful life as a painter from 1859 to 1941.
This canvas dates from 1918, and goes to show that a snow scene does not necessarily have to be rendered in blues. [...]
The work of Rowland Hilder (1905 - 1993) is held up for your admiration in this snow scene, #3 in the advent series.
The painting is from an advertisement for beer, and it’s titled ” Whitbread Stout at the Cross Keys Inn”
Please click the thumbnail to see a bigger version.
I swiped this mini-bio from the Kings [...]
Here’s #2 in this series of snow scenes in the run up to Christmas. It’s by Rockwell Kent, and he painted it in March 1933 in Greenland.
March, Greenland 1933
Some lovely temperature contrasts at work here.
This is #1 in a seasonal series of landscape paintings featuring snow.
I’m very busy marking student essays and preparing for the Winter festival, while suffering various colds and unexplained fevers, so I thought I’d rummage through my image bin and post a wide selection of snow scenes over the next couple of weeks - interspersed [...]
I must be a bit slow. After months of almost daily visits to see Luc Desmarchelier’s blog Ushuaia, and admiring the beautiful concept artwork he created for Dreamworks’ feature films, I discover I had not noticed a link in the sidebar to a blog called Harmattan.
If I remember rightly, that’s the name of a very [...]
William Wray’s latest paintings will be in a one man show at Segil Fine Art from the 22nd of September to the 20th of October. The Gallery is at 110 W. Lime Avenue, Monrovia, California CA 91016
He sums up his plein-air paintings thus: “If Thomas Kincaid is the painter of light, I’m the [...]
Our family managed to get away for a week in Cornwall, just as the sun finally emerged from two months of pluvial grey skies.
We stayed near Maenporth Beach, just round the corner from Falmouth. Large ships anchor in the bay, either refuelling or waiting to enter the deep water port and repair yards of [...]
This is the second part of a sequence of posts about a painter previously completely unknown to me. You can find the first part here.
Santiago Rusiñol made his first trip to Paris in 1888 with the sculptor (and fellow Catalan) Enric Clarasó, and the following year he and Ramón Casas returned to Paris to [...]
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