Month: September 2008
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Anna Richards Brewster in American Art Review
Another quick magazine mention. Anna Richards Brewster, an under-sung American painter who I profiled recently, is featured in a 10-page article in the October, 2008 Issue of American Art Review. For $6 (U.S.), you get a nice overview of her work and 20 images. The article bears the same title as the current traveling exhibit,…
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Dean Cornwell in Illustration Magazine
As I mentioned in my previous article on Dean Cornwell, he was a second generation inheritor of the traditions of the Brandywine School of American illustration, having studied with Harvey Dunn, a student of Howard Pyle. Cornwell’s other major influence was painter and muralist Frank Brangwyn, with whom he studied when he turned his career…
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Colin Stimpson (update)
The classic story of Hansel and Gretel informed us of the alarming eating habits of witches, who love to lure children into their gingerbread houses, fatten them up with sweets, snap them into the oven and cook them right up. Yum. How unsophisticated, though, and how simply old fashioned by today’s standards of cooking shows…
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Arthur Streeton
The practice of painting outdoors (or en plein air, see my recent post on pochade boxes), spread from France, where it first came into wide practice, to other parts of Europe, America, and other parts of the world, largely through the impact the French painters had on artists from other countries who came to the…
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The Totoro Forest Project
Hayao Miyazaki, arguably the foremost director of anime (Japanese animation), has long been concerned with issues of the conservation of the natural world. It is evident in his work, in films that deal directly with the subject, like Princess Mononoke, and as a pervasive theme through all of his films, though the subject is never…
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New Web Site for The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where I had the privilege of studying as a painting major, is the oldest art school in the United States. Modeled after the academic schools of Europe, it has a long tradition of training American artists and a correspondingly long history of collecting American art for its associated…