In the olden days, when the Internet was much less complete than it is now, the Indianapolis Museum of Art had only a few small, stingy images on its site. Move forward a few years and that has changed for the better.
Here, for example, is St Matthew, ca. 1610, by El Greco.
A great place to find more works by this artist is at the Artcyclopedia.
I discovered Josef Albers in my early days on the Web. Today I discovered there is a foundation named after Albers and his wife Anni. The foundation site has a gallery, and the gallery has an entire page devoted to a selection of Albers' squares.
Actually, as I look over the foundation's site, I see that it is very well-designed and appealing.
Albert Bierstadt at Artcyclopedia - lots of excellent paintings, mostly landscapes, mostly the American West.
Here's just one -- Mount Corcoran, ca. 1876. If you use the MFAH's zoom feature, you'll see that this work is to die for.
The AAM portion of the Smithsonian site has quite a nice exhibition on African-American artist William H. Johnson.
All fifty-three works presented are listed, complete with thumbnails, in the checklist section. (9 pages)
The exhibition's curator has identified six major themes. Three of them are --
But I feel a strong preference for the remaining, perhaps more personal, three --
Kawase Hasui (1883-1957) is my favorite among the many excellent Japanese printmakers of the 19th and 20th centuries. Here are two of his best works, imo --
Taishō Pond in Kamikōchi (color woodblock print).
Snow at Funabori, Edogawa, 1932 (color woodblock print).
Both are at the Los Angeles County Museum site, where many other Hasui prints can also be found.
It being Sunday, I offer for your enjoyment another of Luca della Robbia's marvelous terracotta sculptures -- Christ in Majesty, in Florence, Italy.
The same talented photographer has posted photographs of other works by members of the della Robbia family.
Luca (1400-1482) was the first and most famous member of this family of sculptors. He was assisted and later succeeded by his nephew Andrea (1435-1525). Andrea was in turn assisted and succeeded by his sons, the best known of whom was Giovanni (1469- ?).
Here's a painting that I have loved ever since I first discovered it through the Internet -- Becalmed off Halfway Rock, 1860, by American painter Fitz Henry Lane (1804-1865)
The National Gallery of Art, where "Becalmed off Halfway Rock, possesses two other works by Lane --
- New York Harbor, 1852
You can find numerous other fine paintings by this artist by consulting Fitz Hugh Lane Online.
I have long loved this poster, Jane Avril leaving the Moulin Rouge, by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901), 1892 (essence on board)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art site has a good feature on the work of Post-Impressionist Paul Cézanne, Cézanne's Apples. Take a look. It's short and quite painless. :-)
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