Artists & Makers Studios flagship procedure is an artwork heart sophisticated in Rockville, MD. Hosting a extensive variety of Resident Artists and Affiliate members, it gives studios for lease, in depth classroom/workshop spaces, and numerous galleries. Exhibitions are juried and curated by Cathy Hirsh beneath the way of government director […]
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British Victorian Art and the Maas Gallery, London. Part 1. – my daily art display
Maas Gallery, Clifford Street, London. In my next couple of blogs, I am going to delve into the world of Victoriana, and the British art of that period. The Victorian era began in 1837 when the 18-year-old Alexandrina Victoria inherited the throne of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and […]
British Victorian Art and the Maas Gallery, London. Part 2. – my daily art display
My second blog continues to look at some of the Victorian paintings which were on show at the Maas Gallery in London. The Last Song of the Girondins by Claude Andrew Calthrop (1868) The first painting I am displaying in Part 2 is one by the English artist Claude Andrew […]
John Downton – my daily art display
Self portrait by John Downton (c.1928) My featured artist today is the lesser-known British painter John Downton who was born on March 27th, 1906 in the Kent town of Erith, some twenty kilometres south-east of London. He was the youngest of three children of Albert Victor and Flora Edith Downton […]
ArtCatto Gallery – my daily art display
Often when you visit small galleries which are staging a joint exhibition of paintings done by a small number of artists, you like some and are disappointed with others. I was in Portugal last week and my visit coincided with an opening of a joint exhibition at a local gallery […]
Dutch and Flemish Golden Age painters. – my daily art display
Like many others, I am a lover of the artwork of the Dutch Golden Age painters. The Dutch Golden Age was a period in the history of the Netherlands, which spanned the era from 1588 and the birth of the Dutch Republic to 1672, Rampjaar (Disaster Year) which was the […]