Joan Franklin

Blue Door, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper

2023

Pacific Ocean. It was a sunny day and the sky shone with joy. Clouds, like emerald facets, reflected the blue of the sea and the lines of the waves. The warm and favorable wind carefully held the wings of the sailboats...

˜The Feminine Mystique. Rublev Oils and Michael Harding Oils on on Professional Quality primed gessoed stretched duck cotton canvas, on Museum Quality ...

Neapolitan gouaches appeared in the eighteenth century when tourism in the Naples area was developing: the discoveries of Herculaneum and Pompeii made this city a mandatory stop on the Grand Tour, the journey made by wealthy Europeans to complete their education. Generally small in size for ease of transport and affordable in price, these gouaches were the ideal travel souvenir that these tourists of the early days were bringing back to capture the idyllic landscapes they had discovered during their journey and to share them with family and friends upon their return at home. The Bay of Naples and the eruptions of Vesuvius are the favourite themes of these views. Here we have a view of the Ovo Castle, which was rebuilt on the island of Partenope, in the middle of the Bay of Naples and about a hundred metres from the shore by the Normans in the 12th century on antique ruins...

Caractéristique de la production de Gavarni, ce dessin est à rapprocher de plusieurs autres portraits-charges représentant des personnages masculins en pied dans la même posture, deb...