Friday, December 27, 2013

Wilfrid Gabriel de Glehn


The Nymph


The Thames at Chelsea, England, circa 1924-1930

Wilfrid Gabriel de Glehn (also sometimes spelt 'Wilfried'), RA (1870-1951) was an Impressionist British painter, elected to the Royal Academy in 1932.
Wilfried von Glehn (he changed his name in May 1917) was born in Sydenham in south-east London. After schooling at Brighton College with his brother Louis, he studied art at the South Kensington School of Art, and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He was then hired by Edwin Austin Abbey and John Singer Sargent to assist them on their Boston Public Library mural project at Morgan Hall (c.1890–1893).
de Glehn would exhibit his own work first in Rome in 1894 and then in Paris in 1895; he was also elected an Associetaire of the Société des Artistes Français. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1896.

Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Roger Mühl

Roger Mühl (French, 1929-2008)




Roger Mühl was a 20th-century French painter best known for his light-drenched landscape renderings of the South of France. Mühl’s paintings often feature built-up impasto surfaces and utilize complimentary colors and neutral tones, creating both atmosphere and physicality in his subtle compositions. Born on December 20, 1929 in Strausbourg, France, he went on to attend the National School of Decorative Arts in Strasbourg. He spent most of his life living and working in Provence while exhibiting in London, Paris, Geneva, Tokyo, and New York. Mühl died on April 4, 2008 in Mougins, France.
credits: artnet

a Hungarian painter: El Kazovszky

Cloud Over the Hill (2005)

El Kazovsky (July 13, 1948 – July 21, 2008) was a Russian-born Hungarian painter, performer, poet and costume designer, one of the leading Hungarian painters of his time.

Claudio Scheffer (2*)


 Tormenta con vestido rojo 2004

BME Mitre and Callao 2013

Tom Thomson, a Canadian artist

Sketch for Morning Cloud (1913)


Northern Lights, 1915


Silver Birches, 1915-1916



Pine Trees at Sunset, 1915


Canada - Smoke Lake (1915)


Burnt Land at Sunset, 1915

After the Sleet Storm, 1915-1916

 Lightening, Canoe Lake, 1915


Spring Ice, Canoe Lake, 1915


In the northland, 1915, huile sur toile, 101,7 x 114,5 cm,
Musée des beaux arts de Montréal



Tamarack, 1915


Autumn’s Garland, 1916


The Jack Pine, 1916-17


After the Storm 1917


Northern Lights (1917)








Grey Sky



Thomas John "Tom" Thomson (August 5, 1877 – July 8, 1917) was an influential Canadian artist of the early 20th century. He directly influenced a group of Canadian painters that would come to be known as the Group of Seven, and though he died before they formally formed, he is sometimes incorrectly credited as being a member of the group itself. 
Thomson died under mysterious circumstances, which added to his mystique.
from wikipedia

Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Norway’s greatest colourist: Thore Heramb

Thore Heramb  (Norwegian, 1916) 

Grantrær på Jæren


Hjørne i hagen


Composition 1964, 1964


Thore Heramb is considered Norway’s greatest colourist.
As a young man arriving in Paris, Thore Heramb’s dilemma was how to reconcile the intricate, spatially-fragmented constructions of the Cubists led by Picasso, with the Fauves’ delicious preoccupation with pure colour used arbitrarily for emotional and decorative effect. Taught by two of Matisse’s pupils, the question of balance between form and colour has driven the fascinating evolution of Heramb’s art over seven decades.

credits: sueprideaux

Tai-Shan Schierenberg (b. 1962)


Untitled Landscape, 2002, Oil on Board



Tai-Shan Schierenberg (born 1962) is a British portrait painter, based in London. He was the joint winner of the 1989 BP Portrait Award and is Head of Painting at the Art Academy in London.

Pyotr Konchalovsky


Natasha on a Chair, 1910

Piazza della Signoria in Siena, 1912

Port of Siena, 1912

Smoking Chimneys, 1923