Month: September 2012
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Jessie Willcox Smith
Jessie Willcox Smith was a prominent American illustrator from Philadelphia who studied at the School of Design for Women (now Moore College of Art) and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where her instructors included Thomas Eakins. She began her career working in the production department of the Ladies’ Home Journal, but didn’t realize…
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BibliOdyssey at 7
The amazing, fascinating, enlightening, bizarre and wonderful cornucopia of visual ephemera from books, periodicals and other sources known as BibliOdyssey recently turned 7. That means the rabbit hole goes even deeper. I’ll wish author peacay many happy returns, and if you get fascinated with this stuff the way I do, I’ll issue my Major Time…
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Eye Candy for Today: Dulac parrots
A Room Full of Parrots by Edmund Dulac, illustration from Beauty and the Beast, 1910. On The Pictorial Arts.
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Fred Danziger
Fred Danziger is an artist originally from Western Pennsylvania and now based in Philadelphia, where he is also a member of the faculties of The Art Institute of Philadelphia and The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He is also a visiting instructor at Rutgers University and Rosemont College. Over his long career, Danziger has…
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Leonardo’s younger Mona Lisa, or Mona wanna-be?
Though it has been known of for some time, a painting known as the “Isleworth Mona Lisa” was officially unveiled in Geneva yesterday by the Mona Lisa Foundation. The painting was uncovered by an English art collector, Hugh Baker, in 1913, and kept in his studio in Isleworth, London for several years, which is how…
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Museum Day, 2012
In what has become a welcome tradition, tomorrow, Saturday, September 29, 2012, is Museum Day here in the U.S. Sponsored by Smithsonian Magazine, an offshoot of the cultural cornucopia of museums known as the Smithsonian in Washington, DC, all of which are free every day, Museum Day is a chance for participating museums to open…