At the Memorial Gallery of Art site, first pointed out a couple of days ago, my favorite feature would have to be Seeing America, a selection of 73 works depicting various Americans and aspects of American life, all from the Museums's own collection. The images are simply superb. Strongly recommend you take a look!
(As an example, here is a portrait that just knocks my socks off -- Old Woman with a Bible, ca. 1834, by Ammi Phillips.)
The Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, NY, is full of gratifying surprises. . Its collection contains a number of fine works, and the website shows off many of them to good effect. I like to use the portfolio page to find my way around. Just choose one of the 154 portfolios offered, and go!
The Getty's paintings (as opposed to illuminations) of Annunciations are not as spectacular as some, but a couple of them are still very good --
Annunciation, ca. 1350, by Paolo Veneziano Annunciation, ca. 1390, by Tommasso del Mazza (two fine details) Annunciation, 1450, by Dieric Bouts (personal favorite) Annunciation, ca. 1660, by Godfried Schalcken
Certain scenes from the Gospels somehow lend themselves to particularly lovely images. Foremost among these is probably the Annunciation, the announcement by the Angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary that she had been chosen among women to become the mother of Jesus.
Listed below are the twelves illuminated miniatures at the Getty Museum, Los Angeles, portraying the Annunciation. Browsing through them will, I hope, be both a joy and an education in the great variety of concepts and styles brought to this theme by artists over the course of six centuries.
Miniatures --
Annunciation, ca. 1025, by Unknown Annunciation, ca. 1170, by Unknown (unusual composition) Annunciation, ca. 1240, by Unknown
Annunciation, ca. 1410, by a Follower of the Boucicaut Master Annunciation, 1450s, by the Master of the Llangattock Hours Annunciation, early 1460s, by Willem Vrelant Annunciation, ca. 1469, by Taddeo Crivelli
Annunciation, ca. 1480, by an Associate of Georges Trubert Annunciation, ca. 1480, by Jean Bourdichon Annunciation, ca. 1480, by the Master of the Dresden Prayer Book
Annunciation, ca. 1510, by the Master of James IV of Scotland Annunciation, ca. 1525, by Simon Bening (personal favorite)
The National Gallery of Art has mounted an exhibition called the John Wilmerding Collection: "American Masters from Bingham to Eakins," and has placed a generous selection of works online. The exhibition can be approached in a number of ways --
A single page introduction; A four-page history of Mr. Wilmerding and the collection he gathered; A twenty-seven page Highlights section; A zoomable slideshow; and a A checklist with images of all 51 works in the exhibition.
My favorite part is the "Highlights" section. Here are a few of my favorite works therein --
Stage Rocks and Western Shore of Gloucester Outer Harbor, 1857, by Fitz Hugh Lane. Seated Man, 1863, by Eastman Johnson Take Your Choice, 1885, by John Frederick Peto. Northeast Harbor, Maine, 1895, by William Stanley Haseltine.
This exhibition is so good that even the Credits page is beautiful! Take a look -- Sunrise over Schoodic, early 1870s, by William Trost Richards.
Just this morning I discovered the Gilcrease Museum site. This largely unheralded institution clearly contains some very fine works. I was much taken by, for example, Sierra Nevada Morning, 19th century, by Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902).
The Guggenheim-Las Vegas website is certainly a strange one. Minimal. Bare. Scant. And with a number of fine online images to which there is no obvious path from the home page. I happened across this list quite by accident. Here's a work to which that I would particularly like to draw your attention. Go to Fisherman by Camille Corot. Then enlarge the picture and look for the fisherman's red cap. Neat, eh?
There are other lists at this site -- this one, for instance, and this one, plus others. I really don't know what to make of it.
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