Flemish Painting of "Pastoral Scene"

This finely-executed oil painting was produced by Prayat Tadonock in 1990. Prayat was trained as a fine artist according to Thai classical principles and then learned Western oil pai...

Fernand Blayne (1853-1892) studied painting under Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889). He specialized with portraits and genre painting depicting everyday-life scenes. F. Blayn exhibite...

A beautiful, engaging, original, and quite rare work of art by American artist Robert Crowder (1911-2010). Crowder lived in Japan in the 1930s (u...

Absolutely masterful watercolor street scene painting by James C. Borden (1928-2013). Prepare to be awestruck when you lay eyes on this exquisitely detailed watercolor painting by James Borden. The modern painting depicts an ethereal urban scene crowned with summer light. The scale itself is impressive at over four feet wide and three feet high (50.75? x 36.675?). There is just so much to see, so much texture, so many layers. Borden has truly mastered his medium. This is a watercolor cityscape on paper, housed in a cerused wood frame and protected by a pane of acrylic. The painting’s vibrant colors have beautifully preserved. The mastery of this painting is unreal. Borden’s orchestration of color leads the eye through the painting with late afternoon sunlight carving a path through an otherwise gray urban interior. His use of color is narrative. The viewer is being teased away from gloomy city life with a glimmer of sun and nature on the horizon. The nuance in his layering, through elevated passages of transparency… simply brilliant. Be sure to spend time with this painting. There is more to see each and every time you look. Did you notice the Easter egg? Borden used his name as the sign on one of the buildings on the left. The painting is pencil signed “Jim Borden.” James C. Borden studied at the School of the American Academy of Art in Chicago and was a life long painter. Mr. Borden spent much of his life in South Bend...