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Month: December 2016

  • Happy Leyendecker Baby New Year 2017!

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    As I’ve done every New Year’s Eve Since 2006, I’ll wish all Lines and Colors readers a Happy New Year with a few more of J.C. Leyendecker’s terrific New Year’s babies. See that post for background on the origin of the Leyendecker New Years baby covers for the Saturday Evening Post. Images above are from…

  • Adoration of the Shepherds, Nicolas Maes

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    Adoration of the Shepherds, Nicolas Maes Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Getty Museum. The Getty’s version of the image looks dark to me, as often seems to be the case with museums’ online representation of their collections. The Google Art Project version,…

  • The Nativity, Albrecht Durer

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    The Nativity, Albrecht Durer Engraving, in the collection of the national Gallery of Art, DC, which has both zoomable and downloadable files. There is also a zoomable file on the Google Art Project and a downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. In this beautiful early 16th century engraving by one of the great masters of printmaking,…

  • Another great Haddon Sundblom Santa Claus illustration

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    Even though he is sometimes incorrectly credited with creating the modern visual interpretation of Santa Claus, that doesn’t detract from the beautiful job illustrator Haddon Sundblom did of interpreting the character in his 20th century illustrations for the Coca-Cola Company. The image above is from an exhibition of Sundblom’s Santa Paintings at the Oglethorpe University…

  • Fragonard: Drawing Triumphant

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    18th century French painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard was known for his luxuriously colored and lavishly rendered depictions of frivolity and sensuality, much in keeping with the High-Baroque fascination with those kinds of scenes. As beautifully painted as they may be, the subject matter of Fragonard’s paintings can leave you with the undeserved impression that his abilities…

  • John P. Lasater

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    John P. Lasater IV is a contemporary American painter based in Arkansas. His paintings include landscape, still life and figurative subjects. Lasater devotes a good deal of his time to plein air painting, and the freshness and immediacy of that practice carries over into his still life and studio landscape painting. I particularly enjoy his…