William Henry Bartlett
plate opposite page ? in the book The Christian in Palestine by Henry Stebbing (London: George Virtue, [ca. 1830])
engraving
1830
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Gemeentemuseum Den Haag: Jeroen Allart: Clear, Simple and Colourful
Landscape painting tends to evoke associations with a past era but these are instantly banished by the first glimpse of Jeroen Allart’s work. His landscape paintings are invariably composed of a number of completely stylised elements – a field, th...
Sheffield Galleries and Museum Trust, Graves Art Gallery: Jeremy Moon: A Retrospective Exhibition
He made large, bright, abstract canvasses of great simplicity and ingenuity using flat blocks of intense, pure color in regular, geometric shapes and patterns. His work, however, had ready wit and playfulness that gives it a startling contemporary...
Somerset House: Paul Signac: Travels in France
From the sunlit shores around Saint Tropez to the ports of France, to which he
devoted a series of views towards the end of his life, Signac captures the spirit of summer in an ideal
Impressionist medium....
Locco Ritoro Gallery: George Oommen: Visions of Kerala
Across the Charles River, in Harvard Square, George Oommen: Sacred Places will be on view until October 12. These paintings echo an earlier series called, The Sacred Places Within You. These color-field works, created with muted, numinous hues, ...
Turkish American Association's Art Gallery: Kaynak Tumer: Still-lifes of Turkish Culture
The composition is usually set on a bright, handmade tablecloth or table. Thus, the colors of local handicrafts are reflected on canvas.
Also, Tümer holds first rank in Still Life at an international painting competition, Access to Active A...
Hunt Club Community Art Centre: Studio Space Available
Interested artists should
contact: Jeanette on email: hclub@access.net.au or phone (03) 9363 3877 to
be considered or to make an appointment to see the spaces available.
...
Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens: ORCHIDS IN GOLD BY MICKEY NAX
...
Corcoran Gallery of Art: Icing on the Cake: Selected Prints by Wayne Thiebaud
Though best known for his richly painted canvases, Thiebaud also
has created a significant body of prints. Since 1964 the artist has
produced mor...
Hudson River Museum: Fun City: Celebrating the Life of Ralph Fasanella
The exhibit will examine different topics from Fasanella's oeuvre. These include scenes of Westchester County,
baseball games, street festivals, political rallies and election campaigns. A socially-conscious artist, Fasanella's works a...
Bartley Nees Project: Monique Jansen, Esther Leigh and Sara Hughes
Their paintings, which show a delight in process, explore the effect, affect
and impact of repetitive patterns. Entering the territory of op art and even
pop art they are at once ethereal and sensual, transparent and dense,
serious and light-he...
Austin Museum of Art: Salomon Huerta: Paintings
While his riveting works recall the bright palettes and streamlined compositions
of earlier California painters Richard Diebenkorn and Edward Ruscha, Huerta
reinvents conventional elements of Pop art, Color Field painting, and
portraitu...
Textile Museum of Canada: Irene Avaalaaqiaq: Myth and Reality
Avaalaaqiaq is deeply committed to preserving her heritage and making it accessible to an international audience. Much of her work focuses on Inuit legends passed along by her grandmother, as well as a world view derived from oral tradition and ex...
Frye Art Museum: Rie Muñoz: One Hundred Original Watercolors
Born in Los Angeles, Muñoz began painting
scenes of Alaskan native life in the 1950s when
she first arrived in Juneau. During a varied
career, Muñoz created murals for the University
of Alaska and the Alaska State Library, wrote
and illu...
World Fine Art Gallery: Holy Moments - Part 1, Transitioning from Love to Death & God
The new show will feature a collection of paintings on Death,
God and Faith. There will be two installation pieces. The first one called
the "Trouble Bubble", a modern day confessional, and the "The G Spot" (G
stands for God). She uses bright c...
Square 1 Gallery: Robert Slingsby: Bones of the Rusting Carpet
In a landscape that is dominated by metal, there are parts where instead of litter being characterised by the almost jewel like quality of bright, amorphous coloured pieces of plastic, here it becomes a carpet of rust. But just as he as always found ...
Bonner David Galleries: New Art for a New Year : Carol Redmond, John Schieffer, John Harrell, Liz Tran and Francis Livingston
John Schieffer and Francis Livingston interpret everyday images, one through realism and precision, and the other with a nostalgic eye for simple pleasures. Mixed media artist Carol Redmond includes her abstract works of colorful triptychs and gr...
Hanita Museum: Michal Ashkenasi – Passages
The bewitched enchantment of those alleys caught the eye of Michal Ashkenasi and she recorded them in photos full of character, following the swirls with the camera, while she explored the different throughways – doors, windows and little bridges ...
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane: Fresh Cut 2001: Work by Annie Hogan, Janice Peacock, Gareth Donnelly, Lucy Griggs, Jose Da Silva, Simone Hine, Amanda Pound, Caroline Southwood, Chris Handran, Georgina Berkman, Jewell MacKenzie
Fresh Cut 2001 provides a snapshot of the continuing enthusiasm there is for
contemporary art. For what stands out about this years exhibition is the artists'
fascination and delight with looking and discovering different ways
of experiencing o...
ARTSPACE, Auckland: Bright Paradise: Tony De Lautour, Ian McDonald, Paul Morrison, Paul Seitsema
Curated by Allan Smith,
Bright Paradise tracks narratives of exploration, discovery, travel, leisure, image collections and
technologies within a matrix of loss and longing. The show includes around 30 artists, with 10 of
these coming fro...
Michael Gibson Gallery: David Urban: The Constructor
Born in Toronto in 1966, David Urban studied poetry and painting at York University, earning a BFA in 1989. He received a master's degree in English Literature and creative writing under the direction of Alistair MacLeod in 1991 and a second mast...
Indianapolis Museum of Art: The Fabric of Moroccan Life
These anonymous masterworks, which are part of a long oral tradition that has been passed down through generations of Moroccan women, are distinct and varied in their color, design and technique. Authentic Moroccan jewelry and costumes enhance the...
APT Gallery: Sodium Blindness
Movement through city after dark is central to Sarah Conway’s video work: a woman walks through unevenly lit empty London streets. This everyday activity takes on a cinematic menace as the camera tracks her route. Helen Couchman also takes the cit...
Telfair Art Museum: ROBERT GWATHMEY: MASTER PAINTER
Gwathmey's signature style is easily recognized. Influenced by Pablo Picasso, Gwathmey adapted the
Cubist style for his narrative expression. Space is flattened into large areas of unmodulated color, as
seen i...
Lawrence Asher Gallery: Bryan Ricci – Nature Hates Calculators and Jennifer Beedon Snow - Dwelling
Using a meticulous application of oil paint droplets, Bryan Ricci constructs hyper-real creatures that rise from the panel surface. A natural background created from his color photography provides the natural habitat.
The generous brush stroke...
Portland Museum of Art: The Grand Moving PANORAMA of Pilgrim's Progress
In its entirety, Panorama of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress was an eight-foot high by
850-foot long canvas mounted on wooden rollers that unfurled the painting. Each
viewing of the panorama wa...
Galerie Vee: Art in the Party: David Levi, Boyd Sugiki, Janusz Pozniak, James Mongrain, Pamina Traylor and Bandhu Dunham
Davidís Levi's glass studio produces hand-blown, decorative, tabletop
glassware, in bright, luminous colors, with classic modern silhouettes,
and a friendly, playful feel.
"Inspired by the Venetian tradition of goblet making, I strive for...
Undervaerket Art Center: Asbjorn Lonvig: Monumental Sculpture Dedicated to Red Cross Refugees
As Asborjn Lonvig states,My idea
i...
Newmark Gallery: San Francisco: The Changing City - New Paintings by Beryl Landau
Beryl Landau grew up in New York and moved to California as a teenager. She studied painting at UC Berkeley and later at the San Francisco Art Institute under Joan Brown, Elmer Bischoff and Richard Diebenkorn. She lives in San Francisco where she ...
Landings Gallery: Celia Washington: Unquiet Thoughts
About Celia Washington's work:
"Her evocatively coloured and boldly drawn figurative work, like that of many other Scottish artists, reflects a deep fascination in poetic, psychological myth and symbolic legend." (Bill Hare - Galleries)
"...
Kabat Wrobel Gallery: Holy Moments - Part 1, Transitioning from Love to Death and God: Work by Kate Hollett
The new show will feature a collection of paintings on Death,
God and Faith. There will be two installation pieces. The first one called
the Trouble Bubble, a modern day confessional, and the The G Spot (G
stands for God). She uses bright colou...
Fuller Museum of Craft: Ricky Bernstein: Kitchen Dreams
Bernstein pokes fun at, and commiserates with, characters wrapped up in the dramas of daily life. One man plays tug of war with his dog over a shoe, another tries to untangle himself from a telephone cord, and a woman looks in despair at a clock a...
Art Scene Warehouse: Chinese Contemporary Art Masters Exhibition
Du Xinjian is without a doubt one of China‚s most creative and skilled contemporary artists. Du often reads and quotes Chinese philosophers; many of the ancient masters‚ concepts, as well as a variety of renaissance, classical and modern things, f...
Kantor Gallery: Kenny Scharf: Groovenian Drawings
Hence the name, the Groovenians live in the “groove of life”. The main characters, Jet and Glindy, begin in a bland town called Jeepers and flee to Groovenia in search for ultimate joy. Like us, they soon find out that the realities and responsib...
Kiang Gallery: DARK CLOUDS by IAN TEH
This increasing need for energy impacts not only China, but the world’s economy and environment. China’s has already become the world’s leading emitter of carbon dioxide, directly affecting climate change for the world.
Dark Clouds is an intima...
Victoria and Albert Museum: Rural England Through a Victorian Lens: Benjamin Bricknell Turner
Known for his beautiful early photographs of rural England, Turner was one of the first, and remains
one of the most respected, of all British photographers. Between 1852 and 1854 he compiled 60 of his
photographs under the title Photographic Vi...
Hudson River Museum: Living with Landscapes: Paintings from Private Collections
Among the paintings in Living with Landscapes is Homer Dodge Martin's oil painting A Wilderness Pool, a classic Hudson River School scene that shows Martin's interest in the dramatic elements of wilderness scenery. The work's vertical format empha...
Design Museum, at University of California, Davis: Beyond the Rainbow: Maguey Textiles of Guatemala
Curator Kathy Rousso will hold a free hands-on workshop on Saturday July 23 from 9 am to 5 pm. She will be demonstrating how to create small net bags using similar techniques to those displayed in the exhibition. All ages are welcomed. Please call...
Centre for Contemporary Photography: Patrick Pound: The Memory Room
Patrick Pound has exhibited widely throughout Australia and New Zealand and his work is held in the collections of numerous public institutions including the National Gallery of Victoria, the Dunedin Art Gallery and the Museum of New Zealand. Poun...
Gallery Bark Modern Art: Christine Maudy: Cries and Whispers
A truly contemporary artist Christine explores the major cultural, political and ecological issues and believes that is the artist’s duty to contribute in raising awareness.
“Cries & Whispers” is Christine’s way to express her concerns at ...
Brian Gross Fine Art: Marco Casentini: Recent Paintings
In contract to these colorful paintings, Casentini makes quieter reductive, monochromatic paintings where subtle changes in surface and transparencies create shifts in the spatial reading of these moody landscapes. Here, the artist explores the ge...
Further Artwork and Information:
Henry Bright Online
Virtual Gallery - Landscape with Windmill
Bragg, William Henry - Bright Sparcs Biographical entry
Huxley, Thomas Henry - Bright Sparcs Archival and Heritage Sources
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About Saxmundham - Henry Bright, Painter of the Norwich School
I293: Henry BRIGHT (29 DEC 1602 - 9 OCT 1686)
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