Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Armin Hansen


Stormy Sea, Watercolour

Stanley Cursiter - British


In the Orkneys, Westray





Cliffs, Orkney



Waves Breaking on Cliffs, Orkney, 34 x 40 inches

Saturday, May 23, 2009

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Fantasy Art



Edit: Probably Donato Giancola, medium oil

William Ritschel - German American 1864-1949


Incoming Tide, Point Lobos, 20 x 24 inches


Stormy Cove, 12 x 16 inches


Under Tropical Skies, 30 x 36 inches


Yankee Point, Carmel, 30 x 40 inches


Carmel, Oncoming Tide, 12 x 16 inches

Frederick Judd Waugh - American


The Edge of the Reef


Rocky Shoreline, 30 x 50 inches

Friday, May 15, 2009

Alfred Bricher - American


Rocky Head with Sailboats in Distance




Waves on a Rocky Coast, 18 x 39 inches


A Coastal Scene, 13 x 29 inches


Maine Seascape, 10 x 14 inches


Joaquin Sorolla - Spanish


Boats Leaving the Harbour, Asturias, 9 x 16 cm

 

Boats on the Beach, 20 x 30 cm

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Max Roeder, German 1866-1947


Iphigenie, 100 x 125cm

This work, by the symbolist painter, Max Roeder, combines receding horizontal and vertical lines - waves and clefts in the cliffs. The white figure looking out to sea seems to be echoed in negative in the shadowy sea cave.

Robert Henri - American 1865-1929


Rocks and Sea - Monhegan Island, 20 x 25 cm

In earlier posts we discussed the idea of framing the sea with rocks on either side, to avoid a lopsided composition with a vertical element on one side, and a horizontal one on the other. In this work, it appears as if the mass of rock on the right side was added later, for this reason.

Mauritz Frederick Hendrick de Haas 1832-1895


Sailboats on a Calm Sea, 26.7 x 58.5 cm

Tuesday, May 12, 2009