Month: December 2010
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Degas Drawings at the Morgan Library and Museum
Unlike his fellow members of the inner circle of French Impressionism, who largely eschewed drawing for the more immediate direct application of paint, Edgar Degas put great emphasis on drawing. He was, to my mind, one of the greatest proponents of draftsmanship of the late 19th Century, creating a great many striking drawings in pastel,…
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Nate Greco
As an adolescent and teenager I was taken with the wild art and illustration associated with mid-1960’s hot rod and “Kalifornia Kustom Kar Kulture” (see my post on Big Daddy Roth), so I was immediately delighted with Nate Greco’s take on the same from the vantage point of a couple of generations later. Greco is…
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Frederick Cayley Robinson
I came across Frederick Cayley Robinson by chance, and unfortunately missed the dates of the recent exhibit at the National Gallery in London that brought some attention to this otherwise little known painter and illustrator. The National Gallery exhibition focused on the best known of Robinson’s works, a series of four large scale paintings created…
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Even more Leyendecker wonderfulness, in high resolution no less
Wow. Good week for J.C. Leyendecker fans. If my post last Sunday about the Leyendecker studies on David Apatoff’s Illustration Art blog weren’t enough, we now have a wonderful post about J.C. Leyendecker by illustrator Scott Anderson, in which he posts a number of images of a few Leyendecker originals that he had the opportunity…
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The Society of Wood Engravers
The Society of Wood Engravers is a U.K. organization devoted, as the name states, to the art of wood engraving. Though similar in many ways to the more familiar process of woodcuts, of which it is a subset, wood engraving shares similarity to the process of metal engraving in the nature of the tools used.…
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Zita the Spacegirl (Ben Hatke)
Ben Hatke’s charmingly whimsical comics character Zita the Spacegirl first appeared as a webcomic and then in print in Flight Explorer, a small volume published in 2008 as a kid-focused companion to the Flight comics anthologies, to which Hatke also contributed. Zita went on hiatus for some time, leaving those of us who enjoyed her…