Sentences with phrase «of oil sketches»

Rocks and Mountains is the fourth exhibition in a series drawn from the collection of oil sketches acquired by Morgan Trustee Eugene V. Thaw and his wife, Clare.

Exploring France is the second exhibition in a series drawn from the collection of oil sketches acquired by Morgan Trustee Eugene V. Thaw, who is also an honorary trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and his wife, Clare.

But anyone who delights in the freshness and immediacy of oil sketches should make a beeline for Conduit Gallery, where the show's up through Jan. 6.

The series focuses on works drawn from the collection of oil sketches acquired by Morgan Trustee Eugene V. Thaw, who is also an honorary trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and his wife, Clare.

The works showcase aspects of the role of the oil sketch in pedagogy and practice.

The exhibition will explore Thomas Eakins» practice of oil sketching, and the resulting legacy that continues to the present.

From the author's note: «In the summer of 1978 I took photographs of the surface of an oil sketch on canvas

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Let's look at a rough sketch of what are likely to be the perceived negative ethical implications of oil from the top 10 countries listed by oil production:

Her canvases were precious possessions to her family: oil paintings of Degas» ballerinas, sketches of an old tree swing in the backyard, of still life and country life.

President Roosevelt sketched out a map of the Middle East and told the British Ambassador, «Persian oil is yours.

About Blog Authored by Cathy Gatland - Sketching, watercolours, oil painting, sketch and travel journals, a hotchpotch of what's on my right brain right now.

Gallerie Silo: Opening reception for Works on Paper, a collection of charcoal, pencil, pastel, oil paint and ink sketches and doodles journaling artist Michael Armour's growth over the past few years.

, a collection of charcoal, pencil, pastel, oil paint and ink sketches and doodles journaling artist Michael Armour's growth over the past few years.

Tina's beautiful oil paintings and sketches showcase the beaches of Ventura, capturing the dreamy blues and greens of the ocean, sandy beaches, and soulful surfers.

About Blog Authored by Cathy Gatland - Sketching, watercolours, oil painting, sketch and travel journals, a hotchpotch of what's on my right brain right now.

I don't know what's «industry standard practice» for fine art galleries these days, regarding pricing works on paper vs. works on canvas, but my suspicion is that the reason for the * historical * difference between the two is that works on paper are perceived to be less «serious» (after all, watercolor started out as a quick way for oil painters to sketch out drafts), and less long - lasting (historically, a lot of watercolors were fugitive, and tended to fade with time, unlike varnished oil paintings).

The portraits at the Frick varied widely in formality and speed of execution, ranging from quick and expressive drawings and oil sketches to full - length canvases made in Van Dyck's capacity as court painter to Charles I. Works in the first category can look unnervingly contemporary, particularly the sensitive and precocious self - portraits that appeal, anachronistically, to our obsession with «authenticity.»

It tracks Elaine de Kooning's development as a first - rate, innovative portraitist through variously sized drawings, figure studies, trial sketches and small paintings across five decades, with each room dramatically highlighting the best of her large - scale oil paintings, some never exhibited publicly until now.

The exhibition also featured two illustrated artists» letters by Edouard Manet (1832 — 1883) and Vincent van Gogh (1853 — 1890) as well as approximately forty oil sketches on paper by European artists of the late - eighteenth to mid-nineteenth centuries.

To make one of his large works, Katz paints a small oil sketch of a subject on a masonite board; the sitting might take an hour and a half.

Published on the occasion of her first exhibition at David Zwirner in fall of 2010, this beautifully designed and produced catalogue — with a text by noted curator and art historian Joachim Pissarro — features Suzan Frecon's most recent large - scale oil paintings, along with newly commissioned color photography of exhibition and studio installation views, as well as the artist's notebooks and sketches.

An important new component was a group of forty - eight oil sketches by artists of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, many of whom were already represented in the exhibition.

For example, small technical sketches of shipbuilding plans from Still's time working in the war industries are included, which no doubt played a role in the abstracted, mechanistic forms found in many of his drawings and oil works from the early 1940s.

Such works reveal the wide range of technique and function of the landscape oil sketch during this period.

Studying Nature: Oil Sketches from the Thaw Collection presents more than twenty works drawn from the collection of Eugene V. and Clare Thaw, which chronicles the history of the genre in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Bill Scott will be exhibiting a painting in Loaded Brush: The Oil Sketch and the Philadelphia School of Painting at Philadelphia Academy of the Fine Arts from September 23, 2017 to Febraury 4, 2018.

John Armstrong thinks that art's value lies in something very personal, but the Gere collection, of some sixty early landscape sketches in oil, shows how personal reveries in art took shape not all that long ago.

This new type of painting grew out of the sketches that she did on the chalkboards in a disused closed primary school with oil pastel.

Whether in Guston's lush yet fragile impasto, Mitchell's fleet, tactile brushwork or Frankenthaler's lyrical oil washes that sketch myths and memories as they permeate the canvas, each artist created their own unique fusion of colour and gesture.

A permanent Tate Britain collection it includes the Turner Bequest (which itself includes all works left in Turner's studio upon his death), comprising 300 oil paintings and many thousands of sketches, watercolours and 300 sketchbooks.

Some of the early works are at least somewhat representational, with recognizable human figures or in the case of a sketch he made while in California in 1930 recognizable oil derricks.

Heward produced several small oil sketches of Venetian scenes during this trip as well as during her previous trip to Europe, such as Venice (1926).

Avery insisted on a rigorous study of his subject, and most of these mature works were the result of sketches or drawings made with color notations, later enlarged and simplified into watercolor or oil crayon and finally translated to oil applied in luminous, thin washes of closely valued colors overlaid with swiftly applied expressionist brushstrokes.

The small oil sketches in this exhibition originate in his practice of painting directly outdoors.

The Oil Sketch will enter permanently in the SCNY Salmagundi Club Art Collection subject to SCNY Board of Directors approval.

British artist Celia Hempton (at Southard Reid) has forgone her usual fascination with genitalia to produce a dashing oil sketch of the head and torso of a man called Jochen, while the Finnish artist Anna Tuori's exuberant painting It's All Now You See (on Galerie Anhava's stand) is a particularly captivating jeu d'esprit.

A vibrant and unknown John Constable oil sketch has been found hidden behind another of the artist's works, the V&A has revealed.

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But how many blew up what might seem oil sketches to the size of history painting?

His early oil sketches, painted outdoors and characterized by their bright colors, fluid brushstrokes, and prioritization of the expression of mood and atmosphere over topographical details, greatly influenced the Impressionists.

Downstairs at the Morgan Library as «Exploring France,» fourteen oil sketches from the Thaw collection, shared between the Morgan Library and the Met, fill out a view of landscape art just entering the nineteenth century — their diligent precision caught in time between Neoclassicism and the crisp light of Rome for Camille Corot.

With no prior sketching or planned outcome, Huen's large - scale oil paintings are derived from observation of his own life, portraying quotidian experiences.

* The artist made six preparatory drawings and an oil sketch for the composition that reflect his increasing interest in capturing the mental activity of chess rather than in creating recognizable portraits.»

Approximately thirty original works on paper and eight oil - on - canvas compositions by Clyfford Still comprise the exhibition, along with sketch - oriented materials, related photographs, and examples of the artist's self - described «interpretive studies» executed in the middle and late 1930s in Pullman, Washington.

In fact, Katz recalls that the painting was based on oil sketches he made in the afternoon, although the title leaves the time of day ambiguous.»

Reminiscent of the Picasso series, which included fifteen oil paintings and several hundred sketches, Davila's cut - outs are presented in thirteen variations.

There were many surprising passes: Lot 87 was a thunderbolt design of fluorescent tubes by Dan Flavin that was one of his finest works in that it was an appropriate concept; Lots 122 and 130, large and excellent paintings by Sandro Chia (b. 1946); Lots 203 and 205, a good painting and a superb sculpture by Nancy Graves (1940 - 1995); Lot 223, a good gouache on paper by Sam Francis (1923 - 1994); Lot 242, a very good wood and paper collage by Louise Nevelson (1899 - 1988); Lots 279, 281A, 293, and 309, works by Andy Warhol, and Lot 299, «Fast Sketch Still Life With Abstract Painting,» a 60 by 90 inch oil on cut - out aluminum by Tom Wesselman (b. 1931), shown below.

In the first of a series of collaborative exhibitions between the Courtauld's IMAF Centre for Drawings and the Drawing Institute of the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, «A Dialogue with Nature» presents 26 small watercolours, oil sketches and drawings which sing rather than shout of a new vision, forged in the furnace of war, revolution, and industrialisation.

The exhibition features 70 pieces from the artist's personal collection, including examples of Katz's signature mural - like canvases, oil sketches, working drawings, collages, prints, and cut - outs.

1 Georges Seurat (National Gallery, London): The story of the complex evolution of the quotidian but disturbing Bathers at Asnières was told through drawings and oil sketches on small panels in such a way that you felt you were following the young Seurat's ambitious progress, moment by moment, draft by draft.