Month: May 2012
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1880’s paintings from Wikimedia Commons
Taking another dip into the extensive art image resources on the Wikimedia Commons website, I’m once again finding delight in the ability to sort paintings by decade (or year) and browse a wonderful assortment of artists, subjects and styles. This is just the tip of the iceberg, gleaning a few paintings off their generalized “1880’s…
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Robert Douglas Hunter
Boston painter Robert Douglas Hunter studied with R.H. Ives Gammell, carrying forward his defense of classical academic tradition in the face of modernist orthodoxy. Hunter’s refined, elegant still life paintings of simple objects wrapped in soft light and contemplative stillness, carry echoes of the 19th century French ateliers and even further back to Chardin and…
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Maurice Sendak 1928 – 2012
Maurice Sendak, one of the premiere book illustrators of the late 20th/early 21st centuries, died today at the age of 83. Unfortunately, I don’t know of a large repository of his work on the web. The Rosenabch Museum and Library, a small museum here in Philadelphia, houses the preeminent collection of his works, and has…
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Harry Clarke
Harry Clarke was a Irish illustrator and stained glass artist, active in the early 20th Century, in the latter part of the Golden Age of Illustration. As an illustrator, he is known in particular for his work for Hans Christian Anderson’s Fairy Tales and Edgar Allen Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination. You can see…
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Free Comic Book Day 2012
Here in the U.S., tomorrow, Saturday, May 5, is Free Comic Book Day, a yearly opportunity for those who love comics to pick up some free promotional titles prepared by publishers large and small to promote their lines. More importantly, it’s an opportunity for those who aren’t familiar with the current state of comic books…
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Derek Penix
Artist Derek Penix came from a family in which his mother and grandfather both painted, and took it up himself after high school. He says his admiration for painters like Nicolai Fechin, John Singer Sargent and the French Impressionists has been superseded as his primary influence by his studies with contemporary painter Quang Ho. Penix…