Month: May 2008
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Don Gray
I initially came cross Oregon born, California based painter Don Gray by way of his daily painting blog Daily Art West, in which he posts his small paintings of varied subjects, sometimes following the model of small indoor still life subjects common to the “painting a day” practice, but more often of outdoor scenes, frequently…
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John Asaro
John Asaro’s web site opens with a statement about a change in artistic direction, from a 30 year career as a painter of “genre scenes” to a new commitment to exclusively painting the female figure. The site contains little else in the way of information or background and is simply a gallery of work. The…
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Barbara (Briggs) Bradley
Barbara Bradley’s brush was stilled on Friday when she was killed in a car accident at the age of 81. Bradley, née Barbara Briggs, was a member of the Charles E. Cooper Studio, a highly influential commercial art and illustration studio prominent in the mid 20th Century. The illustrators that Cooper attracted were among the…
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Free Comic Book Day, 2008
Today is, once again, Free Comic Book Day! Comic book stores around the U.S. are giving away free copies of comics that a variety of publishers have created just for the occasion. Aside from the obvious pleasure of picking up a free comic (or two, or more, depending on the store), is the nature of…
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Maurice Braun
Hungarian born painter Maurice Braun came to the US at the age of four, when his parents moved to New York City. He demonstrated an interest in art at an early age and was apprenticed to a jeweler at the age of fourteen. On his own, he began to copy works of art from the…
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Mati Klarwein
In 1938, while researching derivatives of the fungus ergot in search of pharmaceutical applications in the treatment of migraines, Swiss scientist Dr. Albert Hoffman synthesized a chemical called lysergic acid diethylamide-25, which came into common parlance, and common use, in the early and mid-1960’s as LSD. It was a few years later before Hoffman, reportedly…